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BURKK'S COLONIAL GKXTUr. 7tO ^[:utiu, who had succocdei) his father as Premier. He aj;;aiii defeated Sir James J[arfcin 186;"). After residing for some years at Warrego River in Queenshvnd lie was appointed police magistrate at Bourke in 1869; the following year ho was appointed stipendiary magistrate at the Water Police Court, Sydney ; which i)ost lie held for four years, when he accepted the olllcc of sheritl" of the colony, which position he now holds. Hincnctc. Vex. "William Co rmt, D.D., archdeacon iif Cumhi-rhiiul iind O.iinclon, New South ';ilcs, jiiul b. at W'liittiniitou, co. Lancaster, liStli Dci-cnibcr, 17-10. ile was, for a sliort t inio, curate of Rawdon, near Leeds, co. York, and. liaviug l^ecii aiipointed assistant colonial clia|>lain, emigrated wit h his family to Sydney, where he arrived IStli .Vunu.st, 1809 ; was incumbent of St. Philip's, and in 184-S was made archdeacon of Ciimbei'land and Cam- den. He )«. three times, and d. at Sydney, Gth July, 1858. A public funeral was accorded to liim by the government, and was attended by some 2.5,030 persons, including the governor, the judges, and the leading civil ofTieers and clergy. The Vca. Archdea- con Cowper had with other issue, I. Charles (Hon. Sir), K.C.II.G., of whom presently, ji. William Macquarie (Very Rev.), 11..^., vicar-general, dean, and arch- deacon of Sydney, b. at Sydney, 3rd .lulv, 1810;" ediicateil .at Magdalen Hail, Oxford (B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835); nrdaiiied deacon in 1833, and jjricst in 1834, curate of St. I'ctrox, Dartmouth, CO. Devon, from 1833 to 1836, when lie was appointed chaplain to the Australian Agricultural Conijiany at Port Stephens, and after holding that olllec for twenty years was apjjoiuted ]irincipal nf iioore College. On the death of his father in 1858, he i'. him as incniuhcnt of St. Philip's, and was appointed dean of Sydney. He left St. Philips in 1869 to take charge of t he catheilral district. The Very Rev. Dean Cowper has been twice mar- ried and has several daughters, one of whom, Eliza .Jane, m. 2nd May, 1863, the Hon. Robert Hoddle Dribcrg White, M.L.C.,J.P. of 'i'ahlee. Port Stephens, New South W'aies, and has issue (.see White, of Port Stephens). The eltler son, Hox. SiE Chaui.es Cowpee, K.C.M.G., of AVivenhoe, Camden, New South Wales, and of Albion Stri'ct, Hyde Park, London, some- time agent-general for New South Wales, and Drypool, co. York, 26th April, 1807, and in 1809 emigrated with his jjarents to Sydney. At an early age he entered the commissariat department, and after holding the post of secretary to the Ohnreh and -School Land.-^ Corporation (which was dissolved in 1833), was for several years engaged in sheep- farming on his estates, Wiveuhoe and Chats- bury. Mr. Cow'ijcr was made a justice of the peace in 1839, and was fh'st elected a member of the Legish'tive Council for co. Cumberland in 1813. lie was premier and co onial secre- tary for a short time in 1856, again premier and colonial secretary, 1857-9, 1860-3, 1865-6, and in 1870 ; was also vice-president of the Executive Council, 1865-6, and 1870, in which year he was appointed agent-general for New .South Wales, and was made a IC.C.M.G. in 1872. Sir Charles Cowper took a leading part in the first movements in favour of railways, and was chairman of the select CLininuttee appointed by the Parlia- mimt, and managing director of the first railway company. There arc now in the possession of the family the jiolishcd oak spade and barrow used in the ceremony of turning the sod of the first Australian railway. The shareholders of the company presented him with £600 wortli of ])late in consideration of the part he took in intro- ducing railways wlien so m.any of his fellow colonists deemed the undertaking impractic- able. Sir Charles, m. October, 1831, Eliza, second daughter of Daniel Sutton, ot Wivenhoe, near Colchester, co. Essex, and by lier (who d. at Bowral, New South Wales, 17th .lanuary, 18S1) hail issue, 1. Chakles, tlic sul)jcet of this memoir. H. William Harrington, d. uinit. in London, 11th October, 1856. I. Charlotte Eliza, m. Hugh Robison, and has issue, five sons. n. Mary Sophia, m. Edmund George Lcthbridge Wood, son of Lieutenant John Wood, R.N.. and has issue, two sons and two daughters. in. Rose. Sir Charles Cowper d. in Lomlon, 19lh October, 1875. formerly premier of that colony, was b. at Creii — .4 litDi^s (jamb erect and erased or hohling a cherry branch vert frucied yu. Residence — Biloela, Sydney, New South Wales.