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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 08 1 Snsannali, danglitcr of the late Daniel RonERTSOX, of Laiinceston, Tnsiiiaiiin. 1)V Sarah Weller PfiiRKicic, his wife, and by her has had issue, I. CiTARi.r.s ilYi.Ks, h. 2nd December, 1855. II. William, h. ord December, 1858; in. 15th January. 18s.'>. .Mcxa Katherine Hose Wir.soN, and has issue, 1. Leslie Wilson. 2. Errol Charles. iir. Suctonins Frederick, l. 7th Anf^iist, 1860, deceased. IV. Percy Hunter, h. 9th July, 18G5, deceased. V. Arthur Edward, b. 15th June, 1806; m. lOHi June, ISIU. VI. Francis Allan, h. 23rd November, 1809. v:i. Sidney Linden, h. 9th September, 1874. I. Catharine Simson, deceased. II. Jamima, iu. 21st September, 1892, David Bi:own, of Kallara, New South Wales, J.P. in. Isabella Mary, deceased. He ?)!. secondly, 28th November, 1876, Ellen Agnes, second daughter of the late Thomas Pope Besx.!D, of Yass, New Sonth Wales, by Marian llemietta L'Estrange Daly, his wife, and by her has issue, viii. Rupert Besnard, b. 10th September, 1877. IX. Aubrey Dunbar, b. 5th January, 1879. X. Chester Derwent, h. 3rd April, 1882. XI. Stanley Gordon, b. 3rd October, 1883, deceased. XII. Geoffrey Talbot, b. 16th February, 1885. XIII. Herbert Dundas, b. 17th September, 1886. XIV. Maurice Norfolk, b. 26th February, 1888. IV. Ellen IIarian L'Estrange, b. 3rd July, 1880. i[r. Officer, who represented the electorate of Dundas, in the Parliament of Victoria, from 1880 to 1891, is vice-chairman of the Central Board for Aborigines, Melbourne ; president aud hon. treasurer of the Ueaf and Dumb Institution, and hon. treasurer of the Society for the Protection of Animals ; was president of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society in 1892, and chairman of the Board of Advice, Dalgety and Co., Melbourne, from 1885 to 1894. Hill cage. Robert Opficeb, of Jacksbank, near Duudce, N.B., son of James Officer, also of Jacksbank, m. Margaret Walker, and had a son, Egbert Officer, of Jacksbank, who m. Isabella Kerr, and bad a sou, Sir Robert Officer, Kut., M.A., of Hallgrecu, New Norfolk, Tasmania, soinolimc Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tas- mania, ft. in Scotland, 3rd October, 1800; was educated at St. Andrew's Uuiversity, of wliieli he became M..., and having obtained hisdi]iloma as a uRMuberof the Royal College of Surj^eous, England, he emigrated to Tas- mania, where he was appointed government medical olllcer for New Norfolk, aud after- wards assistant colonial surgeon, subsequently retiring from the medical profession, lie was returned to the Legislative Council for liuckingham in 1853, ard to the House of Assembly for the district of Gleuorchy in 1856, being chosen chairman of comniittccs, and was speaker from .August, ISGl, to April, 1877. Sir Robert, wiio received the honour of knighthood in 1869, in. Jcmiuia Patterson (wlio </. 28th September, 1881), and (/. 8th July, 1879, liaving had issue, I. Robert, </. having had issue, 1. Robert, m. .lessie llriR, wlio i/. leaving a son, Robert, I/. 131 li January, 1883. 2. James Read.