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196 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Gruards, and was present at the battles of Vittoria, Toulouse, and Waterloo. He rose to the rank of sergeant-major, and left the regiment after twenty-one years' service ; was then employed by Adjutant-Q-eneral Cannon to write the historical records of a number of the regiments in the British Army. Having purchased, on the founding of the colony in 1836, some land in South Australia, he emigrated there in 1843. He m. in 1836, Mary Ann Perry (whose father was of Welsh descent, and spent all his life in the service of the East India Company, and whose mother was a Miss Drysdale, whose father came from Perth, Scotland), and d. in 1873, having had by her (who d. in 1871), I. Thomas (Hon.), now of Drysdale. II. John, m. and has issue, one daughter. III. Edward, m. and has issue, two sons and four daughters. Residence — Drysdale, Norton's Summit, South Australia. Jitibtp of €ntallp. EEIBEY, HON. THOMAS, of Entally, Hadspen, Tasmania, M.A. ' Trinity College, Oxford, M.P. for Westbury, and speaker of the House of Assembly, Tasmania, 6. 21tli September, 1821 ; m. 28th October, 1842, Catherine McDonall, daughter of James Kyle, Esq. of Inverness, Scotland, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Captain Urquart, of Minus, Scotland, but has no issue. The Hon. Thomas Reibey was premier and colonial secretary for nearly eighteen months, again colonial secretary in the Crovvther Ministry for thirteen months, and has been fifteen years in Parliament. He was elected speaker of the House of Assembly in July, 1887. Hfneage. The original spelling of the name was Eaby, having been altered to its present form by the Hon. Thomas Keibey's father. Thomas Eabt, Esq., sometime in the East Indian Navy, subsequently commanded a ship of his own, and Anally settled in Sydney, New South Wales, as a merchant; was a descendant of a very ancient Entjlish family of Eaby. He m. Mary Haydoek, of Ipswich, CO. Suffolk, and had a son, Thomas Eeibey, Esq., who altered the spelling of the name. He m. in New South Wales, Eicharda, daughter of Eichard Allen, Esq., M.D., medical attendant to King Geoege IV, and sister of the late Hon. George Allen, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, who was descended from the founder of Dulwich College, 1819, " Alleyne Edward." He had issue. I. Thomas (Hon.), now of Entally. II. James Haydock (Eev.), M.A. Ox- ford, rector of Denbury, co. Devon, England. I. Mary Allen, widow of the late Charles Arthur, Esq., who was nepliew of the late Colonel Sir George Arthur, of the York Chasseurs, who, in 1814, was appointed superintendent of Hon- duras, which post he held till 1822 ; in 1824 was appointed governor of Tasmania, and continued so for twelve years, subsequently appointed governor of Bombay, and d. in England, 184-4. Sesi'dpiice — Entally, Hadspen, near Laun- ceston, Tasmania. Estates — Entally, aforesaid (about 4,000 acres), and the Oaks Estate, Tasmania. S^ernon of Coltrstrtam. VERNON, FORBES GEORGE, Esq. of Coldstream, Okanagan, and of Victoria, in the province of British Columbia, Canada, member of the Executive Council and chief commissioner of lands and works for the province of British Columbia, h. at Clontarf Castle, near Dublin, Ireland, 21st August, 1843 ; m. at Victoria, 11th September, 1877, Katie Alma Branks, of California, and by her (who d. 31st March, 1885, and was buried at Victoria) had two daughters,