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having decided to pay a visit to Bishop Pompallier at Kororarika, N.Z., where they stayed a fortnight en route. Arriving in London in May 1841, Dr. Ullathorne did good service on behalf of the Australian Mission in England and Ireland. Bishop Polding, who was, it was now decided, to be appointed Archbishop of Sydney, then wrote to him definitely announcing his appointment to the subordinate see of Van Diemen's Land. In reply Dr. Ullathorne wrote declining, and the Bishop then sent him a letter stating that their connection was at an end. Subsequently, however, he wrote offering him the appointment of first Bishop of Adelaide, in South Australia. This too Dr. Ullathorne declined, and later on the new bishopric of Perth, in Western Australia, to which, on his recommendation, Dr. Brady, formerly of New South Wales, was appointed. When Bishop Willson was nominated to the Tasmanian episcopate, Dr. Ullathorne was inclined to go with him as Vicar-General, but the idea dropped through, and Dr. Ullathorne ultimately assumed in England the episcopal responsibilities which he had always shirked in the colonies. Having, for a while returned to Downside, he was then stationed at Coventry, appointed Vicar-Apostolic of the western district, and consecrated Bishop of Hetalona in partibus in June 1846. He was translated to the see of Birmingham when the Catholic authorities restored the English hierarchy in Sept. 1850. Amongst other works he published "A Reply to Judge Burton" (1836); "Horrors of Transportation," and "The Australian Mission" (1838); "Pilgrimage to La Salette" (1854); "The Immaculate Conception" (1854); "Pilgrimage to the Monastery of Subiaco and the Grotto of St. Benedict" (1856); "Letters on the Association for promoting the Union of Christendom" (1865); "Letters on the Conventual Life" (1868); "Letters on the Council and Papal Infallibility" (1870); "Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation Unravelled" (1875). As the diocesan of the late Cardinal Newman, he was on the most affectionate terms with that eminent man. Archbishop Ullathorne died on March 21st, 1889, having been allowed to resign the see of Birmingham a short time previously on the plea of age and infirmity. On his retirement the Pope appointed him an archbishop in partibus. His autobiography, written in 1868, with selections from his letters, was published in 1892 by the eminent Catholic publishers, Burns, Oates, & Co., of London, who have since published in a separate volume "Letters of Archbishop Ullathorne."

Umphelby, Captain Charles Edward, son of Charles Washington Umphelby (q.v.), was born at Richmond, Vict., in 1854, and married at Winchelsea, Vict., in 1876, Anna, daughter of the late Thomas Austin, of Barwon Park, in that colony. Having become a lieutenant in the Victorian Militia, he joined the Victorian Artillery during the Russian war scare in 1884, and now holds the rank of captain. He was selected by the Victorian Government to go through a course of military instruction in England in 1889-90, and acquitted himself with remarkable credit. In the latter year he returned to the colony. As an oarsman Captain Umphelby won the challenge pairs three years in succession, from 1878 to 1880.

Umphelby, Capt. Charles Washington, is the son of the late Edmund Umphelby by his marriage with Miss Williams, and was born at Barrow Hall, Yorkshire, in 1825. He arrived in Australia in 1842, and was married to Lydia, daughter of the late J. Marzetti of Cawood, Tasmania, in 1853. He was a captain in the Victorian Yeomanry from 1858 to 1862.

Unmack, Hon. Theodore, M.L.A., Postmaster-General of Queensland, was born at Hamburg in 1835. He arrived in Victoria in 1853, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He went to Queensland in 1860, and commenced business in Brisbane. He was returned to the Assembly for Toowong at the general election in May 1888. He is a prominent Freemason, and holds the position of Provincial Grand Master (T.C.). On the accession to power of Sir Samuel Griffith in August 1890, Mr. Unmack became Postmaster-General.

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