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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 170 dsughter of ... , and by her (who d. 4th January, 1881) has had issue, I. Charles, of Symmons Plains, of whom above. II. Hari-y, m. Emma Martin, and <] . 5th March, 1870, leaving one son, James Arndell, h. 7th May, 1872 ; and three daughters. III. Alfred, m. 1875, Margaret Mansell, and has issue three sons and four daughters. IV. Cecil James, m. 1885, Mary Dinah Macmicliael, and lias issue two sons. I. Jane, m. W. M. Ord, Esq. II. Rebecca, in. William Carpmael, Esq. III. Annie, IF. Louisa, T. Emily, yunm. VI. Grace, VII. Florence Nightingale, J Crest used — A tcheatsheaf buticeen three crescents. Residence and estate — Symmons Plains, South Esk River, Perth, Tasmania(5,300 acres) . SSatlltams of ^t. ^tonarU^i. WILLIAMS, HON. HARTLEY, of St. Leonards, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria; 6. in Collingwood, Victoria, 15th October, 1843; to. first, 24th December, 1870, Edith Ellen, daughter of Commissary- General G. Home, late of the 15th Hussars and 12th Lancers, and by her has issue, I. Hartley Eyre, h. 5th December, 1871. II. George Herbert, h. 16th January, 1875. in. Edward Ernest, h. 4th December, 1875. I. Edith Ethel, I. 26th June, 1873. II. Muriel Maude, I. 25th April, 1880. He m. secondly, 4th January, 1887, Jessie Bruce, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Acland Lawford, Esq. of Kinellan, Wimbledon Common, and by her has issue a son. IV. Roy Bruce, 6. 22nd April, The Hon. Mr. Justice Williams vs^as educated at Repton School, near Burton- on-Trent, co. Derby, England, and afterwards at Trinity College, Oxford, •where he took the degree of B.A. He is a member of the Inner Temple ; was called to the English Bar in April, 1867 ; returned to his native country, October, 1867 ; admitted to the Victorian Bar, April, 1868 ; and was elevated to the Supreme Court Bench, 4th July, 1881, of which he is now the senior puisne judge. l,tn£agc. This family is of Welsh origin. BiJETON Williams, Esq., a planter of Trinidad, West Indies, m. Miss Hartley, daughter of Major Hartley, and had a son, Hon. Sie Edwaed Etee Williams, for over 20 years judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria ; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1833 ; emigrated to Vic- toria soon after his niiirriage and shortly after the foundation of Port Phillip, and for a time practised at the Victorian Bar; was for some years a member of the Bourke District Council, having been elected a mem- ber of that body in 1844; created chairman of Quarter Sessions, Jauuary, 1852, which appointment he held in conjunction with that of commissioner of the Court of Requests for the city of Melbourne and the county of Bourke ; took office as solicitor-general, AprU, 1852, by virtue of which position he became a nominee member of the Legislative Council, and was subsequently appointed a judge of the Sujjreme Court of Victoria. On resign- iiig his seat on the Bench in 1874, he re- turned to England, and d. at Bath, co. Somerset, in 1879, having had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him the previous year. By Jessie, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Charles Gibbon, of the Manse, Lonniay, near Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by Miss Duil, his wife, cousin to the Earl of Fife, he had issue, I. Edward Eyre (Colonel), m. Harriet Ingram. II. Hartley (Hon.), now of St. Leo- nards. N 2