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 120 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. I. Leland Virgil Edmund, b. 14th April, 1882. II. Wriothe.sley Baptist, b. 27th June, 1884. HI. Cyril, b. 10th December, 1889. I. Gertrude Vivien, b. 1st July, 1880. II. Gladys Millicent, b. 14th April, 1886. His Honour Judge Noel arrived in Queensland, 8th January, 1881. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, London, 26th January, 1877, and appointed a judge of the Northern District Court of Queensland, 5th January, 1883. HtneagE. Egbert, son of Noel, was Lord of Ellen- hall, &c., and in the reign of Henet I had a grant of the greatest part of Grainsborough, in the co. of Warwick, from Lawrence, the prior of Coventry, and the monks of that house. In the reign of Henbt II he fomided the priory of Raunton, or Ronton, near Ellenhall, his chief seat, for canons regular of St. Augustine. This Robert had two sons, I. Thomas, sheriij of Staffordshire for seven years, in the reign of Henry II, and for one year upon the accession of Richard I, who left at his decease two daughters, 1. Alice, m. to William Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, and had Ellenhall and other estates, as her moiety of her father's pro- perty. 2. Jean, m. to William de Dunston, and had for her share Ronton, &c. II. Phiiip. The second son, PHiiiip Noel, had Hilcote, in Staffordshire, from his father, and was s. by his son, Robert Noel, Lord of Hilcote, who m. Joan, daughter of Sir John Acton, Knt., and from this Robert we pass to his lineal descend- ant, James Noel, Esq. of Hilcote, who in the 5 Henry VIII was nominated, by Act of Par- liament, one of the justices of the peace for assessing and collecting the poll tax, &c. He m. a daughter of Richard Pole, of Langley, in the co. of Derby, by whom he had six sons, of which Robert, the eldest, continued the line at Hilcote, while another branch was founded by the third son, Andrew Noel, Esq., who, at the dissolu- tion of the monasteries, had a grant of the manor and site of the late preceptory of Dalt>y-upon-Wold, in Leicestersliire, which had belonged to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and of the manor of Perrybarr, m Staffordshire. In the 2S Henry VIII he was sheriff of the co. of Rutland, as he was afterwards, both in the reign of Edward VI and in that of Mary. In 1548 he pur- chased the seat and manor of Brook, in Rut- landshirei and was elected for that county in the first parliament of Queen Marv. He iit. 1st, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Hopton, Esq. of Hopton, in Shropshire, and widow of Sir John Perient, by whom he had Andrew, his heir, and several other children. He espoused 2ndly, Dorothy, daughter of Richard Conyers, Esq. of Wakerley, in the CO. of Northampton, widow of Roger Flower, Esq., by whom he had one son, John, father of William Noel, Esq. of Kirby Mallory, high sheriff of Leicester 2 James I, whose son and successor, Vere Noel, Esq. of Kirby Mallory, was created a baronet in 1660, and was ancestor of Sir Edward Noel, who s. to the barony of Wentworth, in 1762, and was created Viscount Went- worth. The viscounty is ex- tinct, and the barony is now held by Ralph Gordon Noel, Viscount Ockham, son of the Earl of Lovelace (see Went- worth, Baron, in Biu-ke's Peerrxffe). Mr. Noel was s. at his decease by the eldest son of his first marriage. Sib Andrew Noel, Knt., of Dalby, in the CO. of Leicester, who was a person of great note in the time of Elizabeth, living in such magnificence as to vie with noblemen of the largest fortunes. Fuller, in his Worthies of England, saith, that this Andrew, " for person, parentage, grace, gesture, valour, and many other excellent parts (amongst which skill in music), was of the first rank in the court." He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and became a favourite, but the expenses in which he was involved obliged him to sell his seat and manor at Dalby. Her majesty is said to have made the following distich upon his name : — " The word of denial, and letter of fifty. Is that gentleman's name who will never be thrifty." He was thrice sheriff of the co. of Rutland, and member for that shire in several par- liaments during the reign of Queen Eliza- beth. Sir Andrew m. Mabel, 6th daughter of Sir James Harrington, Knt., and sister and hen- of John, Lord Harrington, of Exton, by whom he had issue,