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44 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Rev. Sir William Dun- bar, Bart., rector of Dummer, Hants, Eng- land, and by him (who was b. 16th May, 1804, and d. 27th November, 1881) had issue (see Burke's Peerage and Baronetage). 2 Elizabeth, m. James Young, Esq. 3 Ellen, m. Joshua Dy- mock, Esq. The elder son, James Stephen, Esq., b. 1700, m. Mary Brown, and d. in 1770, at Nantill, near Aberdeen, Scotland, leaving a son, Jambs Stephen, Esq., b. 173.3, m. Sibella Milner, and had, amongst other issue, William, M.D., from whom are descended Major J. Grant Stephen, and (through Mary, his daughter, m. to Ven. Arch- deacon Hodson, of Cambridge) Major Hodson of " Hodson's Horse " or " Corps of Gruides " celebrity. James, sometime M.P. for Tralee, and afterwards for East Grrinstead, co. Sussex, and for twenty years a master in chancery, from wliom descend, Henry John Stephen, author of T/ik Commentaries ; Right Hon. Sir James Stephen, K.C.B., P.C., formerly under secretary of state for the Colonies, and professor of modern history at Cambridge (who m. Jane Catherine, daughter of the Rev. John Venn, rector of Clapham, co. Surrey, and, dying in 1859, was father of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, K.C.S.I, (1877), Q.d, D.C.L., of Anaverua, Ravensdale, co. Louth, Ireland, 32, De Vere-gardens, Kensington, and of the Athenseum and Oxford and Cam- bridge Clubs, London, one of the judges of the Exchequer Division of tlie High Court of Justice, b. 3rd March, 1829; educated at Eton; M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge ; called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 24th January, 1854 ; recorder of Newark- on-Trent, 1859—69; Q.C., and a bencher of the Inner Temjale, 1868 ; member of the Council of the Viceroy of India, 1869 — 72 ; professor of common law at the Inns of Covirt, 1875; member of Fugitive Slave Commission, Copyright Law Com- mission, Extradition of Convicts Com- mission, and secretary to Education Commission, 1858 — 61 ; appointed one of the judges of the Exchequer in January, 1879, on the retirement of Baron Cleasby ; and treasurer of the Inner Temple, 1886—87. He m. 19th April, 1855, Mary Richards, eldest daughter of the Rev. James William Cunningham, vicar of Har- row-on-the-IIill, by Mary, his wife, eldest daughter of the late General Sir Harry Calvert, Bart.) ; George (Sir) Knight, Q.C., sometime D.L. for CO. Bucks (b. 1794 ; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge ; knighted in 1837, in recognition of his services in the cause of negro emancipation ; called to the bar, June, 1849 ; and in 1855 emigrated to Melbourne (whither two of his sons had preceded him in 1852) ; was elected first president of the Mel- bourne chess club, which was founded in August, 1866, and in that year he acted for a short time as commissioner of insolvent estates at Geelong ; m. 1821, Henrietta, eldest daughter of William Ravenscroft, Esq. of co. Antrim, and d. at Brighton, 1878, having had, amongst numerous other issue, James Wilberforce (Hon.), who was b. in London, 1822 ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gradviated fourth wrangler in 1846, and shortly afterwards M.A. ; called to the bar in 1848, and sub- sequently emigrated to Victoria (1854) ; elected member of the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda in 1871, and became attorney-general ; and in 1872 was made a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria ; Sibella, m. Mr. Garratt ; and Nancy, m. Mr. Dicey. James Stephen m., secondly, Mrs. Clarke, widow of a clergyman, and sister of the celebrated Wilber- force. John (Hon.), of whom presently. Sibella, m. Maxwell Morison, Esq. of Edinburgh, advocate, from whom is descended the Vernon family, Sibella Morison having m. the Rev. James Vernon, chaplain of St. Helena. Hon. John Stephen, a judge of Supreme Court, New South Wales, formerly solicitor- general of the Leeward Islands, b. 1770, m. Mary Anne Passmore (who d. 1st January, 1863), and d. in Sydney, 21st December, 1833, having had issue, I. Sidney, from whom are descended the late James Sidney Stephen, Francis Stephen, of Melbourne, and Annie, m. Mr. Carre-Riddell. II. John. III. Alfred (Hon. Sir), G.C.M.G., C.B., lieutenant-governor of New South Wales. IV. Francis. V. George Milner. I. Sibella, m. Mr. Robison. II. Mary Anne, m. Mr. Shadforth. III. Clara, m. Mr. Hardy. Arms — Arg. on a chev. between two crescents in chief and a dexter hand couped at the wrist and erect in base gu. two mullets of the fii'st. Crest — An eagle displ. with two heads sa. beaked and legged, or. Motto — Virtus ubique. Residence — Pynevor - terrace, College - street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.