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 l:W BURKE'S COLONIAL GEXTRT. became its secretary. He became one of the best rifle shots in Victoria, and, visiting England in 1861, competed successfully in many rifle contests, and took part in ths Wimbledon Meeting of 1862. He returned to Victoria the same year, and in 186-i was appointed lieutenant, in 1866 captain in command of the St. Kilda battery, and in February, 1872, major, resigning his command in Januar}^, 1877, but continuing on the general staff. He is a member of the Free Trade League, having been a member of the original Free Trade League ; president of the Chamber of Commerce ; elected one of the members of the Legislative Council for the Central Province, in May, 1874; commissioner of savings banks; executive vice-president of the Mel- bourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888; and at the first election of the Harbour Trust Commission was elected a member of that body. He was minister of defence, Victoria, from 13th November, 188.3 to 1886; and appointed minister of defence and education, 1890 ; in 1885 was appointed a companion of St. Michael and St. George, and in 1890 created a Knight Commander of the same Order. Hmm. Fredeeick James Saegood, Esq. of Ci'ojdon, CO. Surrey, England, who was one of the members for Melbourne in the old Legislative Council, and in 1856, at the first election under the new constitution, was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda; m. 30th October, 1830, Emma, daughter of Thomas Rippon, Esq. (who was for several years cliief cashier in the Bank of England), the brother of Dr. John Rippon, and son of the Rev. John Rippon, Baptist minister of Up-Ottery, co. Devon, and d. 16th January, 1871. He had issue by her (who d. 20th October, 1884), I. Feedeeick Thomas, K.C.M.Q-., now of St. Kilda. I. Emma Rippon, m. Or. H. Williams, Esq., and has issue : 1. Frank ; 2. Rippon; 3. Stewart; 4. Harold; 1. Emily; 2. Fanny; 3. Katherine. II. Louisa Eliza, m. W. Paterson, Esq., and has issue: 1. Arthur; 1. Liua ; 2. Ethel ; 3. Mary. III. Caroline Ellen, m. J. Alexander, Esq., and has issue: 1. Florence; 2. Maud ; 3. Hilda. IV. Grulielma Frances, m. W. H. Moss, Esq., but has no issue. V. Rebecca Jane, m. J. T. Cooper, Esq., and has issue : 1. Ellen; 3. Gulielma Bertha ; 3. Louisa. Residences — Rippon Lea, East St. Kilda, Melbourne ; and Ellerslie, Mornington, Vic- toria, Australia. W^mxmx ot ISvookons House. KINNEAR, ROBERT HILL, Esq. of Brookong House, Toorak, Mel- bourne, Victoria, b. at Longforgan, co. Perth, Scotland, 2-4th February, 1820; m. 6th July, 1847, at Dundee, Rosalie Magdalene Katherine, daughter of George Ludowick Korn, Esq., a merchant of Hamburg. She was b. at Barllowick, Germany, 25th March, 1822. Hintacif. James Kinnear, resident at Longforgan, said to be a descendant of the old family of Kinnear, of that ilk, m. Isobel Bisset, and had, with several daughters, three sons, I. John, resident at Fingask, co. Perth, m. Magdalen Soutar, and d. 1801, leaving issue. II. Charles, of Kinnear and Kinloch, CO. Fife, Scotland, a successful agricid- turist ; m. 1772, Ann, daughter of James Hunter, of Inchture (by Janet Mathevv, his wife, daughter of James Mathew Mains, of Fintrie), and sister of Charles Hunter, of Seaside, co. Perth (see Burke's Landed Gentry), and Thomas Hunter, of Glencarse, co. Perth, and of Mrs. Elizabeth Kinnear, of Lochton, and had issue, 1. Tliomas, of Kinloch, m. first, 1792, Lucretia, daughter and co- heir (with her sister Jane, wife of John Graeme Murray, of Murray- shall) of Thomas Anderson, of Nevvljurgh, co. Fife, and had,