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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 129 a member of the Legislative Council by sign- manual, 11th Ansust, 1824; the same year appointed to the Executive Council, received the honour of knighthood, 6th April, 1837, while in England, and resigned his appoint- ment of chief justice in July of that year. The same year he returned to Sydney, and resided at Leitrim, near Sydney, until his death, 8th November, 1841. He m. 22nd November, 1815, Amelia Sophia, daughter of David Grant, Esq., M.D., of Kingston, Jamaica, by Anne Hitchman, his wife, and by her (who was b. 24th February, 1794, and d. 14th March, 1886) had issue, I. Francis William, b. 12th December, 1817 ; d. unm. 14th December, 1886. II. David Grant (His Honouk), of Sydney. III. Charles, d. an infant. Arm-i — Az. a crescent between three bears' heads couped arg. muzzled gu. Crest — An arm in armour ppr., couped at the elbow, lying fesswise, the hand ppr., holding a dagger in pale, thereon a bear's head as in the arms. Motto— 'SioXw^ inter pluriraos. Residence — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. i^arsootr of ixipptin iCea. SARGOOD, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THE HON. SIR FREDERICK THOMAS, K.C.M.G., of Rippon Lea, East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, J.P., member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, lieatenant-colonel Victorian Militia, and member of Harbour Trust ; h. at Walworth, London, 30th May, 1834 ; m. first, 10th September, 1858, Marian Australian, only daughter of the late Hon. George Rolfe, M.L.C., and grand- daughter of George Rolfe, Esq., by Ann Morphefc, his wife, and by her had issue, I. Frederick George, of Elsternwick, Victoria, h. 18th January, 1861 ; to. 9th April, 1885, at Holy Trinity Church, Balaclava, Melbourne, Agnes Penrose, third daughter of E. S. Parkes, Esq. of Irona, Balaclava, Melbourne, and has issue, two daughters, Agnes Marion, and another, I. at Elsterwick, 4th July, 1890. ri. Percy Rolfe, h. 26th September, 1865. III. Alfred Herbert, I. 21st August, 1868. IV. Harry Morton, h. 21st January, 1870. s V. Willie Ernest, h. 17th November, 1875. I. Clara Wordsworth, h. 14th February, 1864, m. at Rippou Lea, 29th November, 1889, Henry Bunting Webster, Esq. of Canterbury, New Zealand. II. Edith Marian, l. 13th December, 1866. III. Emma Winnifred, I. 16th May, 1872. IV. Gulielma Bei'tha, h. 7th September, 1874. He m. secondly, 2nd December, 1880, Julia, daughter of James Tomlin, Esq., by Charlotte Rippon, his wife, and by her has issue, a daughter, Julia Charlotte, h. 11th October, 1882. Sir P. T, Sargood arrived in the colony of Victoria, 12th February, 1850, in the ship " Clifton," and was for a short time clerk in the office of Public Works, but soon after entered his father's business in Collins- street. In 1852 he went to the Mount Alexander gold-fields, afterwards took charge of his father's country business in and about Castlemaine and Sandhurst, and returned to Melbourne in 1854, continuing in his father's business, which soon grew into an extensive establishment. Sir Frederick took a great interest in the question of colonial defences, and initiated the formation of No. 2 St. Kilda Rifle Corps in 1859, and VOL. I. K