34 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Council of Tasmania, b. in Hobart IStli August, 1848, educated at the Hutchius scliooi, and, after some pre- paration in yarious pursuits, went to London, was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, 2Sth January, 1875, and subsequently of Tasmania 10th September, 1875 ; represented Glen- orchy in the House of Assembly, elected 14th June, 1877 ; 18th August, 1877 ; 20th May, 1882 ; l7th July, 1886 ; was appointed attorney-general 13th August, 1877, and became leader of the opposition in 1883 and 1884 ; was elected Speaker for the first time 21st July, 1885. He is a member of the Tasmanian Council of Education and of the Board ot Legal Examiners, and is church advocate ibr the diocese of Tasmania. Mr. Dobson is un- married. III. Elizabeth Alice, h. 23rd October, 1843, m. 5th September, 1868, George Patten Adams, Esq. of Hobart, and formerly of Launceston, Tasmania, solicitor, and registrar of the supreme court, fifth son of James White Adams, Esq. of Martock, co. Somerset (see Adams of Hobakt), and has had issue, 1. Arthur Dixon, b. 30th May, 1871, deceased. 2. Sydney Dobson, b. 14th Novem- ber, 1876. 3. Eeginald Dobson, I. 22nd June, 1881.
- . Edith Isabel, b. 26th April,
1870. 2. Catherine Mabel, b. 25th Decem- ber, 1873. 3. Florence Marian, b. 5th March, 1874. 4. Alice Gertrude, b. 16th July, 1878. IV. Georgiana, b. 27th November, 1846. Mr. John Dobson d. at Hobart, 2nd June, 1865. Arms used — Arg. a fesse nebvlee gu. between six fleurs-de-lis sa. Crest — Two lions' gambs erased in saltire gu. Motto — ZTt tibi sic alteri. Sesidence — Hobart, Tasmania. DOBSON, HON. FRANK STANLEY, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, B.A., LL.D., Cambridge, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, Q.C., r.L.S. London, member of the Legislative Council, chairman of committees, Victoria, h. 20th April, 1836, in Tasmania ; educated first at the leading private school in Hobart Town, of which the principal was Mr. Hutchius, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., and LL.B., in 1858 ; called to the bar at the Middle Temple, April, 1860, and immediately afterwards, having emigrated to Victoria, practised his profession at the common law Bar. In 1863 he was appointed one of the lecturers on law in Melbourne University, and was for some years certifying barrister to the Victorian friendly societies, which office he resigned on entering Parlia- ment in 1869 as member of Council for the Southern Province. He is one of the trustees of the Public Library and National Gallery, official visitor of the Observatoi-y ; member of the Royal Commission for Technological Instruction ; Queen's Counsel ; examiner in French and German at the University ; M.A. of the University of Melbourne, and was for some years the representative for Belvoir in the Church of England Assembly. He was Solicitor-General in the O'Loghlen Ministry from July, 1881, to March, 1888. He m. 1st, 27th June, 1863, Adelaide, daughter of the Rev. Edward Whitehurst, rector of Dfynog, Wales, and of Oswestry, co. Salop (whose only surviving son. Rev. John Whitehurst, rector of Farnborough, near Wantage, Berks, England, d. 4th December, 1886, aged 48 years), and by her had issue, I. Frank Temple Stanley, of Melbourne, B.A. and LL.B., Trinity Hall, Cambridge, I. 21st April, 1864 ; m. 22nd August, 1887, Miss Bertha Emma Armytage Hopkins.
