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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTlir. 107 Htneage. Hon. Sie James Dowling, Knigbt (brother of Vincent George Dowling, Esq., who was grandfather of Vincent James Dowling, Esq. of Luie), was b. in London, 25th November, 1787 ; educated at St. Paul's School, London ; in early life was newspaper reporter in the Houses of Parliament ; called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1815 ; edited several legal text books, and brought out nine volumes of law reports. He was appointed a puisne judge of the colony of New South Wales, 6th August, 1827, and arrived at Port Jackson, in the ship " Hooghly," with his family, 24th February, 1828 ; appointed acting chief justice, April, 183H, and chief justice in succession to Sir Francis Forbes, when he was knighted. Sir James Dowling m. in 1835, as his second wife, Harriott Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. John Blaxland, formerly of Newington Hall, CO. Kent, England, and afterwards of New- ington, Parramatta River, New South Wales, sometime member of the Legislative Council of that colony (see Blaxland of Foed- wich), and widow of Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. of Calcutta, merchant (who m. in 1816, and had issue), and d. in Sydney, 27th September, 1844, aged 57 years, having had issue by his first wife, I. James Sheen, district court judge. II. Vincent Francis Woodcock. I. Susau, m. the Rev. Charles Spencer, M.A., and d. his widow. II. Eliza, m. 30th March, 1842, Sir Arthur Hodgeon, K.C.M.G-. (1886), of Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, CO. Warwick, England, and of the Windham Club, London ; formerly of Eton Vale, Darling Downs, Queens- land, Australia, J.P. and D.L. for co. Warwick (high sheriff thereof 1881), and J.P. for the borough of Stratford, b. 29th June, 1818 : educated at Eton and Cambridge ; emigrated to New South Wales, and amved in Sydney in 1840 ; represented Darling Downs for some time in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, and after the separation of Queensland sat for the Warrego in the Parliament of the latter colony ; sometime secretary for public works, colonial secretary, and premier of Queensland ; was ap- pointed general superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Company in 1856 ; and in 1874 returned to Eng- land. He was representative for Queensland at the Exhibition held in London, 1862 ; executive commissioner for the same colony at the Paris Exhi- bition, 1878; royal commissioner, &c.. Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 ; and was mayor of Stratford-on-Avon from 1884 to 1888; son of the Rev. Edward Hodgson {d. 1854), vicar of Rickmansworth, Herts, by Charlotte, his wife, sister of the late Colonel Pemberton, of Trumpington Hall, co. Cambridge, and has, with other issue (see Hodgson), Francis Henry (Rev.), M.A., vicar of Abbots Langley, Herts, b. 1848; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge ; m. July, 1881, Mary, second daugh- ter of the late Hammond Solly, Esq. of Serge Hill, Herts. III. Maria, m. George Blaxland, Esq., a merchant captain trading between China and India, second son of the Hon. John Blaxland, of Newington; and d. s.p. He.tidence — Sydney, New South Australia. Wale Botoltng of iCuit* DOWLING, VINCENT JAMES, Esq. of Luie, Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia, J.P. for New South Wales and Queensland ; h. in New South Wales, 11th January, 1835 ; m, Frances Emily, fifth daughter of Thomas Chaplin, Esq. of Breillah, Sydney, New South Wales, and has, I, Willoughby Vincent, h. at Thargomindah, Queensland, 19th May, 1871 ; educated at Eton. II. Prank Osborne, h. 25th January, 1884. I. Ethel Maude, h. at Thargomindah, Queensland, 3rd June, 1869. II. Ruth Beatrice, h. at Luie, New South Wales, 8th October, 1878. III. Elsie Luie, /;. at Luie, New South Wales, 11th August, 1880. Mr. Dowling was educated in England, and on his return to his native country entered into the business of a .squatter. He is one of the pioneers of Australia, having discovered the Cuttaburra and Spring country, and the river Paroo