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He was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in July 1834, and emigrated in 1852 to South Australia, where he entered the Civil Service as a clerk in the Treasury in June 1854, and was appointed secretary to the Lands Titles Commissioners in Dec. 1862, secretary to the Attorney-General in Dec. 1870, acting Under-Secretary and Government statist (in the absence of Mr. Boothby) at the Paris Exhibition from Jan. 1878 to June 1879, and collector of customs and chief inspector of distilleries in July 1879, and a special magistrate. He is also Chairman of the Marine Board of South Australia, registrar of shipping, and chief inspector of kerosene. He married on July 1st, 1856, Sarah, daughter of William Younghusband and Louisa Cecilia his wife.

Sandford, Rt. Rev. Daniel Fox, D.D., LL.D., formerly Bishop of Tasmania, third son of the late Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, D.C.L., sometime M.P. for Paisley, and Professor of Greek at Glasgow, by Henrietta Cecilia, daughter of Robert Charnock, was born on July 25th, 1881. He was ordained deacon in 1853, and priest in 1855. After filling various curacies in Scotland, he became incumbent of St. John's, Edinburgh, in 1873. In 1883 he was elected to the bishopric of Tasmania, and was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Benson) in St. Paul's Cathedral on April 25th, in that year. In 1873 he was made an honorary LL.D. of Glasgow University. He married, on August 30th, 1855, Elizabeth Barret, eldest daughter of John Rae. He resigned the bishopric of Tasmania in 1889.

Santo, Philip, entered the Parliament of South Australia, and was Commissioner of Public Works in the Waterhouse Ministry, from Oct. 8th to 17th, 1861, and in the first five Ayers Ministries, from July 1863 to July 1864, from July to August 1864, from Sept. to Oct. 1865, May 1867 to Sept. 1868, and Oct. to Nov. 1868 respectively. In 1881 he retired from public life, but subsequently made several unsuccessful attempts to re-enter Parliament. He died at the age of seventy-one, on Dec. 17th, 1889.

Sargood, Lieut.-Col. Hon. Sir Frederick Thomas, K.C.M.G., M.L.C., late Minister of Defence and Education, Victoria, is a son of the late Frederick James Sargood, M.L.A. He was born at Walworth, London, on May 30th, 1834, and arrived in Victoria, then Port Phillip, in Feb. 1850. He was for a short time in the public service in the office of Public Works, and then joined his father in the business of warehouseman. He entered the Volunteer force in 1859, and is now lieut.-colonel in the Defence force. He was elected a member of the Legislative Council in 1874, and still sits for the South Yarra province. In the following year he was elected a member of the Melbourne Harbour Trust; and during a visit to England in 1880 was appointed as special delegate to represent the colony before the Imperial Commission for the protection of British possessions abroad. He returned to Victoria in 1882, and in Nov. 1883 joined the Service-Berry Government as Minister of Defence, in which capacity he planned and carried out the reorganisation of the Defence forces, naval and military, including the employment of Imperial officers. He was also Minister of Water Supply until Feb. 1886, when he retired on the Ministry being merged in that of Mr. Gillies. He was appointed Executive Vice-President of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888, and became President on the retirement of Mr. Justice Higinbotham. He was created C.M.G. in 1884, and K.C.M.G. in 1890. Sir Frederick married first, in 1858, Marian Australian, only daughter of the Hon. G. Rolfe, M.L.C.; and, secondly, in 1880, Julia, second daughter of James Tomlin, of London. He accepted office as Minister of Defence and Education in the Munro Ministry in Nov. 1890, but resigned office a year later rather than assent to the "one man one vote" principle of election. Ultimately he withdrew his resignation on the measure being dropped, but finally retired on the Ministry being reconstructed in Feb. 1892, under Mr. Shiels, who announced his adhesion to the "one man one vote" principle.

Saunders, Alfred, M.H.R., is the son of the late A. E. Saunders, of Market Lavington, Wilts, and Mary his wife, daughter of John Box. He is a brother of William Saunders, formerly connected with the Central News and now M.P. for Walworth in the English Parliament. He was born at Lavington, Wilts, on June 12th, 1820, and was educated at Bristol. He emigrated to Nelson, N.Z., with the

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