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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 25 Northumberland into Dorsetshire, subse- quently resided in Wilts, and finally, in 1820, emigrated to Cape Colony. He m. in North- umberland, about 1800, Anna Maria, daughter of Captain John Mitford (of the Reedsdale Mitfords in Northumberland). They were both buried in the district of Albany, Cape Colony, and had issue, nine sons (amongst ■whom are the present Hon. Robert Mitfoki> BowKEE, and his youngest brother, James Henry Bowker, F.R.G-.S., F.Z.S., F.S.St. London (gold medallist), J.P. for Cape Colony, who served in the Kaffir War of 1846 — 47, and in that of 1851 ; inspector, frontier armed and mounted police, 1855 ; served in the Transkei expedition, 1858, and remained in command until the withdrawal of the police in 1865 ; was engaged in locating and settling the FiBgoes ; took part in the expedition to Basutoland, 1868, and was employed in settling the boundaries of that country, and dividing it into districts ; commandant of the frontier armed and mounted police, 1870, and in the following year commanded the expedition to Hope Town and the Diamond Fields, and was some time chief commissioner at the Diamond Fields ; in command of expedition to Tembu- land, 1875 ; governor's agent, British Basuto- land, 1877 ; and was appointed one of the commissioners for Natal for the Indian and Cohmial Exhibition), and two daughters, all of whom accompanied their parents to the Cape, with the exception of one son and one daughter, who were born in South Africa. Arms used — Arg. a cross engrailed gu. hetween four water-bougets sa. Residence and Estate — Craigieburn, Somer- set East, Cape Colony. fj^xiIrnpU of Caiilfitltr. HOLROYD, HON. EDWARD DUNDAS, of Fernacres, Alma-road, Caulfield, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Q.C., barrister-at-law, and judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, h. 25th January, 1828 ; m. at East St. Kilda, near Melbourne, 19th April, 1862, Anna Maria Hoyles, daughter of Henry Compton, Esq., and grand-daughter of the Rev. T. Comp- ton, vicar of Paignton, co. Devon, England (of the family of the Marquess of Northampton), and has issue, I. Arthur George, h. 15th May, 1865. II. Spencer Edward, h. 2nd March, 1867. I. Catherine Compton, h. 1st February, 1863 ; m. at All Saints, St. Kilda, 19th December, 1888, J. J. O'Hara Wood, Esq. of Brisbane, barrister, eldest son of the late O'Hara Wood, Esq., C.E., of Sydney. II. Ethel Hardman, h. 17th April, 1864, m. 4th January, 1890, at All Saints' Church, East St. Kilda, Oscar Van Assche, eldest son of the late Henri Van Assche, of Antwerp. III. Sophie Marion, h. 4th September, 1870. Mr. Justice Holroyd was educated at Winchester College, which he entered as a commoner in February, 1841, and carried off several prizes, and in two consecutive years (1845 and 1846) a Queen's Gold Medal for the best Latin and English prose essays. He left Winchester in July, 1846, and in October of that year proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in January, 1851, and M.A. in 1854 ; called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, 6th June, 1855; arrived at Melbourne, 1859; admitted to practice as a barrister in the Supreme Court of Victoria, 27th July, 1859, and subse- quently became a member of the Tasmanian Bar ; declined the appointment of judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria, which was offered to him in 1872; appointed Q.C. in Victoria, 14th January, 1879, and 22nd August, 1881, judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.