56 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. It. William Henry, h. 24th May, 1856, m. 1886, Ella, daiigliter of George Clift, Esq., and has issue, a daughter. irT. Thomas Chichester James, b. 5th September, 1858. IV. Edward Pakenham, b. 25th June, 1860. V. Frederick Leopold, b. 18th April, . VT. Charles Ernest, b. 1st December, 1871. TIT. Rodolph Wellesley, b. 20th September, 1874. I. Catherine Jane, m., 1st August, 1882, Lieutenant Honrj- John Jeffreys, R.N. n. Wilhelmina Rosalind, m., 29th September, 1886, William Mclntyre St. Clair Maclardy, Esq. of Sydney. III. Helen Mary Elizabeth, unm. Mr. Jastice Foster was educated, first at Cheltenham College, England, and afterwards at Trinity College, Dublin ; settled in Victoria in 1854- (having visited the colony two years previously), and engaged for a short time in agricultural pursuits ; subsequently studied for the bar, and was admitted 13th May, 1858 ; the following year was appointed crown prosecutor for the northern district, and in 1870 crown prosecutor for Sydney, which office he resigned, December, 1877, and became attorney-general under the Farnell administration, with a seat in the Legislative Council, which he resigned in 1880 ; afterwards became M.P. for Newtown ; in 1881 minister of jastice in the Parkes ministry ; and again, in 1887, attorney-general, which office he subsequently resigned, and in February, 1888, was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of N.S.AV. Mr. Justice Foster has written a treatise on the District Courts Act, which is still regarded as the standard work on that subject. He has been a member of every diocesan, provincial, and general synod of the Church of England constituted in New South Wales. Hincagf. Mr. Justice Foster traces his descent, tlirough the families of Fortesoue, Chicliester, and Boucliier, back to King Edwabd III. According to tradition liis paternal ancestors "we"e formerly seated in Berkshire, whence they migrated into Ireland. John Foster, Esq. of Dunleer, co. Louth, for many years M.P. for that borough, m. 10th December, 1704, Mary, youngest daughter of William Fortesoue, Esq. of Newi-ath, co. Louth, who was grandfather of William Henry, fii-st Earl of Clermont, and son of Sir Thomas Fortescue, knt. of Dromisken, co. Louth, lieutenant-colonel of Prince Ciiarles's Horse Gruards and governor of the Castle of Carrickfergus ; and by her (who d. 29th October, 1762, aged 77 years) left at his dect-a^e, 16th May, 1747, I. Anthony (Right Hon.), of whom hereafter. II. Thomas (Rev), CD., rector of Dun- leer, b. 16th November, 1709 ; m. 1740, Dorothy, daughter of William Burgh, Esq. of Bert, co. Kildare, and was *. by his son, John Thomas, of Diinleer, some time M.P., who m. 2nd April, 177G, Lady Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of Frederick Augustus, fourth Earl of Bristol, Lord Bishop of Dei-ry, and d. 1795, having had bv her (who m. secondly, 19th October, 1809, William, fifth Duke of Devonshire, K G., but d. s.p. by him, 20th March, 1824), 1. Frederick Thomas, b. 2nd October, 1777, M.P. 2. ArousTus John (Right Hon. Sir), Bart., P.C., Gr.C.H., of Stonehouse, co. Louth, J. December, 1780, was appointed envoy extraordi- nary and minister plenipo- tentiary to the United States, 1812, and subsequently to Sweden, Denmark, and Sar- dinia. He was created a baronet, 30th September, 1831 ; he m. 18th March, 1815, Lady Albinia Jane,*
- The king granted to this lady and her
two sisters, 29th September, 1832, the pre- cedency of an earl's daugliters.
