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816 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 5. Edward Newcoine, b. 6th June, 1881. 1. Emily Frances. 2. Catherine Harriet Louisa. 3. Annette Mary, m. 16th Sept. 1891, George Seymour Lyon, of Toronto, Ontario, and lias issue. IV. Edwabo, of wliom we treat. I. Anne Therese, b. 9Lh September, 1822, d, in infancy. Arms — kz. a cross calvary on three grieces arg. the dexter arm terminating in a sun in splendour or and the sinister in a decrescent of the second. Crest — An estoile wavy ot six points or. Motto — Sic itur ad astra. Sesidence — Ballinahinch, Hamilton, Canada. |3crtcl)al SIR WESTBY BROOK PERCEVAL, K.C.M.G., of Avonside, Christ- church, New Zealand, h. m Launceston, Tasmania, llth May, ]S54, m. 11th May, 1880, Jessie, youngest daughter of the late Hon. John Johnston, M.L.C., of Homewood, Wellington, New Zealand (see Johnston, of Wellington), and has issue, I. Francis Westby, h. 21st January, 1882. II. Alan John Westby, h. IBlh January, 1884. III. Christopher Peter Westby, 6. llth June, 1890. I. Mary Josephine Eileen, h. 9th February, 1881. II. Mary Margaret Agnes, h. 29th January, 1886. Sir W. B. Perceval was educated at Christ College Grammar School, Christchurch, New Zealand, and at Stonyhurst, England, and matriculated at the London University in 1875 ; entered the Middle Temple in April of that year, and was called to the English Bar, May, 1878. He returned to New Zealand and was member for Christchurch from 1887 to 1891, in the House of Representatives, of which he was elected chairman of committees, but resigned the position on his appointment in 1891, as agent-general in London, in which year he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII. He has represented his colony on the governing body of the Imperial Institute since 1892, and is a member of the council of the Society of Arts. He was created K.C.M.G., 1st January, 1894. Htncngr. RoBBBT, Lord of Breherval, Montinney, and Vasse, in Normandy, the iirst of this family who came into Enghmd, held, with his other great possessions, the Castle ot Yvery, in the Duchy, by the service of three knights' fees. He is presumed to have been a younger son of Eudes, Sovereign Duke of Brittany, and accompanying the Conqueror in 1066, was rewarded with the lordships of Karry and Harpetree, in the eo. of Somerset; but returning afterwards mto Normandy, he d. of a grievous illness, soon after the year 1083, and was s. by bis eldest son, AsCELiN GrOUEL DE Pekceval, surnamed Lupus, or the Wolf, from the violence of his temper. He was also an adventurer with the Conqueror, and obtained many large manors in England, besides those granted to his father, particularly Weston n Gordano, Stawell, etc., in the co. of Somerset. He »«. Isabella, daJghter of William, Earl of Breteuil, Pacey, Constantin, and Yvery (which alliance brought a near relationship to Williaji the Conqueror), and had issue, I. Robert, Lord of Yvery, his heir. n. William Gouel de Perceval, of whom presently. III. John, ancestor of the Barons Harpe- tree and Gournay, whose male line terminated 10 Kichaed II. Ascelin was established in the earldom of Yvery in 1119, soon after which he died, and was s. by his eldest son, Egbert, Eahl of Yveev, who was in rebellion the sauie year against Henry I, in Normandy, but quittmg that party he was re- conciled to his sovereign, and d. in 1121, without issue, when he was s. by his brother, WiLLiA.Ai GovEL DE Peeceval, Surnamed Lupellus, or the Little Wolf; he held the Norman and English estates and bore the title of Earl of Y'very. Taking part with the Empress Maud, he was in a continual state of warfare with the Barons against Stephen. He m. Auberie, sister to Waleran de Belle- monte. Earl of Mellent, in Normandy, and daughter of Robert, Earl of Mellent, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh, the great Earl of Vermandois, brother to Philip, and son of Heney I, liing of France. The issue of this marriage were.