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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 12^ only surTiTiiif! daughter of James Hatch Gibhs, Esq. of Glenroy Park, Brighton, Victoria, barrister-at-law, and comptroller of Stamps, Mel- bourne, Victoria, and has, Bervl Vernon Laslibrooke, h. 13th May, 1884; Eleanor BaiUie, b. 1885; and Valerie Winifred Wriothesley, b. 26th October, 1888. I. Eleanor, h. 10th November, 1858; m. 1884, Alfred Cornish, Esq. of Dun- raven, Toorak, Melbourne, but has no issue. His Honour Judge Noel was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, November, 1850; and emigrated to Victoria, 1852, arriving at Melbourne in November of that year. Soon after his arrival, he was appointed police magistrate at Kilmore, and in January, 1855, police magistrate for the county of Bourke ; in October, 1855, became crown prosecutor for the North-East District; appointed deputy chairman of General Sessions, July, 1857 ; chief commissioner of insolvent estates, March, 1859 ; and judge of the Court of Insolvency, February, 1871. He d. 19th May, 1886. Arms — Or, fretty, gu., a canton, erm. Crest— A. buck at gaze arg., attired or. Suppo7-ters of the Earls of &ainsboroiiqh — On either side, a bull, arg., armed and un- guled, ppr., gorged with a naval crown, az., therefrom a chain reflexed over the back, gold ; pendent from the crown an escutcheon, also az., charged with an anchor, erect, en- circled by a wreath of laurel, or. Motto — Tout bien ou rien. Residence — Brisbane, Queensland, Aus- tralia. Chib — Queensland. dfjortts (A Cartnton. FORBES, SIR WILLIAM STUART, of Cai-terton, Wellington, New Zealand ; Pitsligo, co. Aberdeen ; and of Fettercairn House, co. Kin- cardine, Scotland, h. 16tli June, 1835; s. his uncle as 9th baronet, 27th May, 1866; m. at Nelson, New Zealand, 1st July, 1865, Marion, .3rd daughter of J. Watts Esq. of Bridgend, Nelson, New Zealand, and has had issue, I. Charles Hay Hepburn, h. 3rd June, 1871. II. Kenneth Macdonell, h. 1873 ; d. 1876. III. William, h. 1st April, 1876. )7. Hugh, I. 20th June, 1882. I. Emma Louisa. II. Marion Elizabeth. III. Katherine Evelyn. IV. Adelaide Amy. V. Beatrice Pullerton. yi. Georgina Gordon. VII. Mildred Gwendoline. The surname of Forbes was derived from the lands so called on Donside, in Aberdeen- shire. Fergus, of Forbes, son of John, of Forbes, had a charter of Forbes from Alex- ander, Earl of Buchan, in 1236. Duncan Forbes had a charter of the same lands from Alexander III, circa 1271. John, of Forbes, who, besides Forbes (which he held from the Crown), held Edinbanchory and Craiglogy from the Earl of Mar, and was sheriff of Aberdeen, had, by his wife, Mar- garet, a son, Sir John Forbes, of that ilk, who s. before 1387, and by further acquisitions increased the family possessions, was knighted circa 1390, and d. 1406, having had four sons, Alexander, his heir. Sir Wiiham, of Kinaldy, who m. Agnes, daughter of William Eraser, of Phil- Hineagc. orth, with whom he got Pitsligo, and was ancestor of the Lords Pitsligo. Sir John, who got Tolquhoun by marriage with Margery, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Preston, of Formartin, and was ancestor of the Forbeses of Tol- quhoun, Foveran, Waterton, and Cul- loden. Alister Cam, got Brux by marriage with the daughter and heir of Sir Henry Cameron, and was ancestor of the Forbeses of Brux, and of His Honour David Grant Forbes, of Sydney, New South Wales, district court judge. Sir John was s. by his eldest son, Sir Alexander Forbes, of that ilk, who, in 1407, accompanied Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, and Sir Walter Lindsay in an expedition into England to tilt with Lord