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BUUKK'S COLONIAr; GKXTHY. 537 foimJin::^ tlio colony of Ilong Kong. Fortunate as a navigator ho was a()i)oiuted to the command of the " Zenobia," of London, in 1851. The followintj year ho proceeded to the Victoi'ian goklfield.s on Forest Creek, but meeting with little success I'eturned to his former pi'ofession, and has over since been connected with the mercantile marine of Australia, fir.st as navigator round its great extent of coast, before its dangers were known, or its head- lands and reefs lighted or beaconed, and afterwards as general manager of the Australian Steam Navigation Company, which important office ho held from 1866 to 1887. Itiucaqc. Captain Troulon's father, CllAUI.KS Robekt TROuroN', f'ormeily resided at >.'cvi-y and Rosstrevor, both co. Down, Ireland, but afterwards removed to Dulilin, where he resided in Lower Gardiner Street. lie m. 21th May, 1813, Miss C'rkek, an Irish hidy (who (/. 3rd March, 1870), and rf. about 1872, having had issue, I. Tiionias, m. Mabel, daugliter of the Rev. Mr. Burke, and niece of Sir Arthur GuiNifESS, and d. having had issue, 1. Gardner. 2. Edmund. 3 Frederick. 1. Marian. 2. Edith. 3. M^ry. Residence — ^Clifdalc Uonse, Ealmain, Sydney, New South Wales. It. Charles Hubert. lit. William James, m. Bessie, daughter of Doctor BoxwELL, of Wexford ; de- ceased. IV. Gardner, deceased. V. Fredericiv Henrt, of Balmain, the subject of this memoir. VI. Edmund (Rev.), of Enniscorthy, Ireland, deceased. I. Fanny Frances, m. Robert Campbell Lee, of Dublin, solicitor, and has i daughter, Emma Florence. II. Charlotte, m. George Graham John- sox, of Edinburgh, and of SumuuT Lodge, Perthsliire, Scotland, and has issue, 1. George Graham ; 2. Charles ; 3. Frederick; 1. Marian; 2. Edilh; 3. Charlotte. WILLIAM MURRAY ROSS, of The Grange, Ros.stown, near Melbourne, Victoria, J. P. ; m. first, 10th July, 1856, Maria Lilela, third dtuighter of Major HoRr, of Kilmainham Hospittil, Dublin, and niece of Sir William Hort, Bart., of Hortlands, Ireland ; and secondly, I3th February, 1889, Con- stance Edith, third daughter of John Vautin, formerly manager of the Union Bank, Adelaide, South Australia, and has issue, I. Roderi..-k. It. Claude Murray. Mr. W. M. Ross was the organiser and manager for many years of the Victorian branch of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company. He vras also a member of the Royal Commission on Friendly Societies and one of the committee of three who digested the evidence, and prepared the Act passed by Parliament, under which these societies are cow administered. He is also a member of the Board of Classifiers, which administei-ed that portion of the Victorian Public Service Act, relating to education. He is proprietor of tho Rosstown Junction Railway, the Rosstown Sugai- Works, and the Rosstown estate, and is the pioneer of the sugar beet industry in Australia, He is one of the fathers of the cheap press of England, having been editor and half-pro- prietor of the Liverpool WeeJdy News newspaper, published in Liverpool in 134G. It was the Gist cheap newspaper in England sttirted after the London Daily Ncivs.