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792 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. School of Mines, trustee of the Savings Bank, patron of the Institute of Surveyors, etc. For the success of his efforts in completing the Australian transcontinental telegraph line he was created G.M.G. in 1872, and was made K.C.M.G. in 1893. Hintnar. G-. Todd, of the Stock Exchange, Loudon, liad a son, G-. Todd, of Greenwich, co. Kent, who was fathei- of, I, Charles, Sir, K.C.M.G., M.A., F.R.S., of Adelaide, the subject of this memoir. n. George Griffith, late of the Hon. E.I. Co.'s service, Calcutta, deceased, in. Henry, assistant astronomer at the Cambridge Observatory, England. I. Mary (Mrs. King). II. Elizabeth Parker (Mrs. Bishop). Residence — West Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia. Wixwttx. FRANCIS PRATT WINTER, C.M.G., of Port Moresby, British New Guinea, h. 23rd February, 1848. Mr. Winter was acting attorney- general for the colony of Fiji 1887-8, when he was appointed chief judicial otficer of British New Guinea. He is a member of the Executive Council, and also of the Legislative Council, and was created a Companion of St. Michael and St. Geora:e in 1892. ILintaac. This family is a branch of the Wixtehs of ,ij/(pr which was settled in Oxfordshire prio." to 1600, and was of the same stock as the Winters of Lydneii, co. Gloucester. C'HEISTOPHEK WiNTEK, a younger son of T]iOMAS AViNTER, CO. Oxford, removed to Balshal, co. Warwick, and was father of, Samfel Winter, D.D., h. at Balshal, 1603; m. Ann Beeston, of Boston, co. Lincoln, and had a son, Samuel, his heir. In 1650, Dr. Winter was obliged to resign the living of Cottingham, co. York, of which he was rector, being ordered by the then government to proceed to Ireland, with the commissioners, appointed for the settlement of that country, as their chaplain, and was soon after constituted Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, which the preceding troubles had left almost desolate. In this oiTice he exerted himself with great zeal and success to re-assemble the surviving members and re-establisli the discipline of the L^ni- versity. He appears to liave been removed from the Provostsliip at the Kestoration. Dr. Winter acquired property in the King's county, in Meath, and Westmeath, and dying 1666, was s. by his son, Samuel Winter, who was confirmed in the estates of his father by the letters ]iatent of Charles II, iu 1608. ' He m. Elizabeth, daughter or sister of Colonel Sankey, an ofiicer of considei-able note under the Com- monwealth, and dying 1670, was s. by his son, Samuel Winter, m. Mary, daughter of Francis Pywell, of Possickstown, co. Kildare, and dying 1692, left a son and heir, The Vert Rev. Sankey Winter, arch- deacon of Killala and dean of Kildare, in. Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Rev. Dr. William Lloyd, Bishop of Killala, but dying .«. p. 1736, was s. by bis brother, Francis Winter, m. Margaret, eldest daughter of Benjamin Pratt, of Agher, co. Meath, by Jane, his wife, daughter of James Nugent, of Clonlost, co. Westmeath, and his wife Jane, daughter of John Cooke, of Cookesborough in the same county. By this lady, Mr. Winter left at his decease, 174.S, one son and two daughters, I. Samuel, his heir. I. Jane, in. Rev. Edward Reynell. II. Mary, m. Nicholas Reynell, of Rey- nella, co. Westmeath, and d. .?. p. His only son and successor, Samuel Winter, of Agher, m. 1762, Margaret, youngest daugliter of Joseph RoBBiNS, of Ballyduff, co. Kilkenny, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Piers, Bart., of Tristernagh, and by her, who d. 1814, had issue, 1. John Pratt, his heir, high sheriff, 1806, h. 31st May, 1768; in. 4th August, 1794, Anne, youngest daugh- ter of Captain Arthur Gore, of E.I.C. service, youngest sou of William Gore, of Barrowmount, co. Kilkenny, and d. Slst August, 1846, having by her (who d. August 1848), had issue, (1) Samuel, of Agher, co. Meath, J.P.,