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 IIG BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 1. Owen Glendower. 1. Gwylfa Glendower. III. Clarence Kay, b. 28th November, 1858 ; assumed the surname of Kaye in addition to and after that of Meeedith; m., 26th February, 1884, his cousin, Rosina Maria, only child of Captain Joseph Henry Kaye, R.N., F.R.S. (who d. at South Tarra, Victoria), by Maria, his wife, eldest daughter of George Meredith, Esq. of Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania, by Mary Evans, his second wife, and has issue, 1. Gladys Maria. TV. John Montague, b. 5th December, 1862, unm. I. Mary. II. Rosina. m. Clara, m., 21st December, 1887, Robert Heaton Rhodes, Esq. IV. Elsie Emmeline. V. Edith Dry. VI. Janie Chalmers. VII Gwendoline Meredyth. vjii. MelitaMeredyth. TX. Kathleen Meredyth. l,m£act£. The family of Meredith can trace a descent, tlirough a long line of the princes of South Wales, from Owen Glendower. John Meredith, Esq. of Temple-street, Birmingham, co. Warwick, England, and afterwards of Castle Bromwich Hall, near Birmingham, solicitor and barrister, in., about 1768, Miss Sally Turner, of Birmingham and by her (who d. 1819) had issue, I. John, an eminent solicitor of Birming haru, in. Lucy, sister of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the artist, and had one daughter, Lucy Louisa Ann, ni., about 1824, John Asian, of Birmingham and has numerous issue. II. Charles, of Leicester, England, soli' citor, coroner, &c., had issue, one daughter, Fanny, deceased. III. Henry, of Birmingham, gunmaker, had two sons, only one of whom, Henry, attained manhood. IV. George, of whom presently. I. Louisa Ann, b. about 1772, m. Thomas Twamley, of Hampstead, near Birming- ham, and had one daughter, Louisa Anne, b. in Birmingham, 20th July, 1812 ; m. at Edgbaston, near Birming- ham, 18th April, 1839, her cousin, the Hon. Charles Meredith. II. Anne, d. itnm. One of Mr. Meredith's sisters married a Mr. Linwood, whose daughter Mary was the Miss Linwood whose wonderfully clever and artistic pictvires in worsted crewel-work were the admiration of the world in the first quarter of the present century. He d. in 1788. His fourth and youngest son, George Meredith, Esq. of Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania, b. in 1778, entered the Navy in 1794, and, as lieutenant in the Marines, served in America, the West Indies, and Egypt ; was invalided on full pay in 1805. He formerly resided at Castle Brom- wich, and subsequently, on retiring from the Marines, at Newbury, and at Ehyndaston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, from which place he emigrated to Tasmania, arriving at Hobart, 18th March, 1821, in the " Emerald." During his residence in Tasmania, Mr. Meredith experienced many difficulties and dangers, and on one occasion his house was broken into by the noted bushranger Brady. Mr. Meredith in., first, J 805, Sarah Westall Hicks, an heiress, and by her (who d. in 1820 at Khyndaston) had issue, I. George, believed to have been mur- dered by aborigines in Kangaroo Land, about 1832. II. Charles (Hon.), of Malunnah, Orford ; and Hobart, Tasmania. He was for 24 years a member of the House of Assembly, an executive councillor for 23 years, a minister of the Crown in four administrations, a magistrate of the territory 36 years, &c., &o., b. 29th May, 1811, at Poyston, co. Pembroke, Wales ; in 1821 emigrated, with his father and family, to Tasmania, which he left for New South Wales in 1833, and took up runs on the Murrum- bidgee, Manaroo, and Limestone Plains; visited England in 1838, re- turned to Sydney the following year, and resided for some little time at the old house, Homebush ; subsequently returned to Tasmania, landing in