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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 59 Court, CO. Cork, and had, amongst other issue, a son, afterwards Sir William Foster Stawell, K.C.M.G., of D'Estarille, Kew, Melbourne, ex-chief justice of the Colony of Victoria, second son, who was b. in co. Cork, June, 1815 ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1837) ; called to the Irish bar, 1839 ; emigrated to Victoria, arriving in Melbourne, 1843 ; and afterwards held large squatting interests near Avoca, and between Lake Wallace and Glenelg ; appointed attorney -general of Victoria, 1851 ; returned to the legislative assembly of Victoria for Melbourne in 1856, and succeeded Sir William h Becket as chief justice in 1857, remaining in that office until 1886, when he was appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Victoria. Sir W. F. Stawell ■was knighted in 1857, and created K.C.M.a., 1886. In 18*73, the Uni- versity of Dublin conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He m. January, 1856, Mary Frances Elizabeth, only daughter of the late William Pomeroy Greene, Esq. of Collen House, CoUen, CO. Louth, Ireland, and afterwards of Woodlands, Victoria, Australia, formerly lieutenant, R.N. (see Greene OP Geetstones), and had issue, 1. Jonas Molesworth. 2. WiUiam. 3. Charles Leslie. 4. George Cooper. 5. Richard Bawdon. 6. Eodolph de Salis. 1. Anne Catherine. 2. Mary Letitia. 3. Henrietta. 4. Melian. III. Henrietta, m. 1810, Jerome Fane, Count de Salis, and d. 1856, leaving issue, William Fane de Salis, vrho emigrated to Victoria, but afterwards returned to England, and became chairman of the board of directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ; and the Hon. Leopold Fane de Salis, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. IV. Elizabeth m. Rev. James McCreight, and had issue, a daughter, Letitia, m. Edward Jeffreys, Esq. T. Letitia, m. John Henry North, Esq., Q.C., sometime M.P, for the University of Dublin, and d. s.p. The second son, Eev. William: Henet Fostee, of Lough Gilly, CO. Armagh, and of Altamenagh, Donegal, Ireland, rector of Lough Gilly, co. Armagh, and formerly midshipman, R.N. ; m. 18th December, 1821, Catherine, daughter of James Hamilton, Esq. of Brown Hall, Ballintra, co. Donegal (who was maternally desf^ended from the Scottish royal house of Stewart), by the Hon. Helen Pakenham, his wife, sister of Thomas, Earl of Longford, Major-General Sir Edward Michael Paken- ham, G.C.B., Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham, K.C.B., and of Catherine, wife of Arthur, the first and great Duke of Wellington ; and d. 1861, having had by her (who was b. 1803, and d. 1873), I. Arthur Hamilton William, of Bell Isle and St. Ernan's, co. Donegal, J. P., CO. Donegal, b. 1824; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; m. Ara- bella Rose, daughter of John Hamilton, Esq. of St. Ernan's and Brown Hall, co. Donegal, J.P. and D.L., high sheriff 1826 (see Burke's Landed Qentry, "Hamilton op BeownHall"); and has issue four daughters. II. William; John (Hon.), of Thurnby, Newtown. I. Catherine Helen, m. 1849, John James Verschoyle, Esq. of Tassaggard, Sag- gard, CO. Dublin ; and of 36, Upper Mount-street, Dublin, Ireland, J.P., CO. Dublin, who was educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; third son of the late John Verschoyle, Esq. of Stillorgan House, co. Dublin (who d. 1840), by Margaret, his wife, daughter of John Stuart, Esq. of Dromespil, co. Tyrone ; and has issue, besides five daughters, two sons, the elder of whom is the Rev. John Stuart Verschoyle, B.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, curate of Holy Trinity, St. Marylebone, London, b. 1858. II. Catherine Wilhelmina, nnm. Arms — Arg. a chev. vert between three bugle-horns sa., stringed gu. Crest — A stag trippant ppr. Motto — Divini gloria ruris. Seiidence — Thurnby, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia. lamtton of ©oiart. HAMILTON, HIS EXCELLENCY SIR ROBERT GEORGE CROOK- SHANK, K.C.B., LL.D., of Hobart, Tasmania, governor of Tasmania, b. 30th August, 1836; educated at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1857, LL.D. 1885) ; m. first, 18th August, 1863, Caroline Jane Ball, daughter of Frederick Augustus Geary, Esq. of Putney, co. Surrey, which lady d. 1875 ; and,