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40 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. laverquhomery and Longside, co. Aberdeen, J.P. and commissioner of supply for Aber- deenshire, and had issue. Mr. Grill, who had nearly completed his eighty-ninth year, d. at Aberdeen, 6th April, 1878, having had issue by his wife Margaret Mitchell, besides two sons, Patrick and David, who d. infants, four sons and one daughter, viz., I. David, now of Blairythan, co. Aberdeen, LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., J.P., h. 12th June, 1843 ; m. 7th July, 1870, Isobel Sarah (authoress of Six Months in Ascension, &c,), second daughter of the late John Black, Esq. Dr. G-ill, who ■was educated at Marischal College, and the University of Aberdeen, has been Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, from February, 1879 ; is a knight commander of the Order of the Medjidie, and author of A De- termination of the Solar Parallax, &c. II. Patrick Gilbert, of Niall, Wandoo Vale, and Christmas Creek Stations, North Kennedy district, Queensland, and of Monomeith, near Cranbourne, Victoria, a J.P. for the colonies of Victoria and Queensland, h. 15th October, 1845 ; baptised 26th Novem- ber following ; educated at the Uni- versity of Aberdeen ; was one of the earliest of the North Queensland settlers, having settled there in 1864. He d. unm. at Melbourne, 21st June, 1886, and is interred in the Melbourne Cemetery, where there is a tombstone erected to his memory. III. Andrew John Mitchell-, of Savock Culteroullen, Aberdeenshire, Auchin- roath, Rothes, co. Elgin, N.B., and of the Isthmian Club, London, F.A.S. (Scotland), author of The Houses of Moir and Byres, b. 1st August, 1847 ; educated at the University of Aber- deen, and R.A. College, Cirencester, CO. Gloucester {s. 1878) ; is a J.P. and commissioner of supply for co. Aber- deen. This gentleman has assumed the additional surname of Mitchell. IV. James BurcE, now of Runnymede and Greenvale. I. Margaret, in. 17th January, 1882, the Rev. Henry Powell, M.A. (Clare, Cambridge), rector and patron of Stanningfield, Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk, and of the United University Club, London, and has issue, three sons, all b. at Stanningfield rectory, viz., 1, Henry Mitchell Powell, b. 21st May, 1883; 2, Frederick Gill Powell, b. 19th August, 1881; and 3, Gilbert David Bruce Powell, b. 15th August, 1887. Arms — Lozengy arg. and vert, on a chief gu. three martlets of the first. Crest — A demi eagle rising ppr. Mottoes — Sursum prorsusque, above the crest ; and, below the shield, In te Domine spes nostra. Residences and TSstates — Runnymede, Cas- terton, co. Normanby, Victoria ; and Green- vale, Dalrymple, North Kennedy District, Queensland, Australia. Club — Melbourne. asijtij. BLYTH, HON. SIR ARTHUR, K.C.M.G., C.B., F.R.G.S., of Avenue Villa, Campden House-road, Kensington, co. Middlesex, England, Agent- General for the colony of South Australia, h. in Birmingham, co. Warwick, 19th March, 1823 ; m. 5th March, 1850, Jessie Ann, fourth daughter of the late Edward Forrest, Esq. of Birmingham, by Eliza, his wife, and has issue, I. John James, m. 1873, Elizabeth Hawker, and has two sons and three daughters. I. Eliza Sarah Emily, imm. U. Prances Eleanor, in. 1877, William Briggs Sells, Esq. of South Australia, and has two sons and two daughters. Sir Arthur Blyth was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham ; emigrated to South Australia with his family, and arrived at Adelaide in 1839. He has been five times treasurer, twice commissioner of crown lands, twice commissioner of public works, and twice chief secretary and premier of South Australia, all which offices he held between 1857 and 1876 ; appointed agent-general for South Australia, 16th February, 1877 ; royal commissioner for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, and executive commissioner for South Australia ; delegate to Colonial Conference, 1887 ; created K.C.M.G. 1877, and C.B. 1886.