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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 169 General Gordon, and while accompanying General Earle's column took part in the battle of Kiibekan, and for his services received the Egyptian medal and two clasps, and was made C.M.G. ULtncage. The founder of the Canadian branch of the Denison family was Captain Johk Denison, son of Geoege Denison, Esq. of Headon, Yorkshire. He was b. at Headon, 20th Novem- ber, 1755. After serving a number of years with his regiment, the 2nd West York, Captain Denison sailed for Canada, 1st July, 1792, eventually settling in Toronto, 1796. He pur- chased a large tract of land near Weston, co. York, Ontario, about 1798, which is still in the possession of the family. He m. Sophia, daugh- ter of Arthur Taylor, Esq. of Dovercourt, Harwich, co. Essex, England, and d. at Tor- onto, 28th October, 1824, having had issue, I. Geoege Tayloe (Lieut. -Colonel), of whom presently. II. Thomas, m. and left issue. III. Charles, d. s.p. I. Elizabeth Sophia, m. John P. Taylor, Esq. Lieut.-Colonel Geoege Tatlob Deni- son, of Bellevue, Toronto, b. 29th December, 1783 ; m. Esther Borden, daughter of Captain Richard Lippincott, a United Empire Loyal- ist, who, after fighting for seven years for his king and a " United Empire," settled near Toronto, receiving a large grant of land in the township of Vaughan, comprising about 3,000 acres, from the Crown, as compensation for the loss of his property in the United States, which had been confiscated. He d. 18th De- cember, 1853, leaving issue, I. Richard Lippincott (Lieut.-Colonel), unsuccessfully contested West York in 1861, and d. 10th March, 1878, leaving issue. II. Geoege Tatloe (Colonel), of whom presently. III. Robert Brittain (Lieut.-Colonel), was brigade-major and afterwards deputy adjutant-general of Toronto district. He has issue. iv. Charles Leslie, b. 21st August, 1841, m. and has issue. I. Sophia, m. William Coates, Esq. II. Mary, m. J. Fennings Taylor, Esq., and has issue. III. Georgina. The second son. Colonel Geoege Tatloe Denison, of Riisholme, Toronto, b. at Bellevue, Toronto, I7th July, 1816, was sometime senior officer of Militia in the province of Nova Scotia. He d. 30th May, 1873, having had (by Mary Anne Dewson, his wife) seven sons and two daughters, viz., I. George Taylor, lieut. -colonel com- manding Governor - General's Body Guard, police magistrate, Toronto, J.P., b. 30th August, 1839, unsuccess- fully contested Algoma in 1872. II. Feedekick Chaeles (Lietjt.- Colonel), of whom we treat. III. Henry Tyrwhitt, b. 29th January, 1849. IV. Clarence Alfred Kinsey, captain and adjutant Governor - General's Body Guard, b. 9th April, 1851. T. John, lieutenant R.N., b. 25th May, 1853. VI. Septimus Julius Augustus, captain 4th Batt. South Staffordshire Regi- ment, England, b. 3rd September, 185a. VII. Egerton Edmund Augustus, captain 3rd Batt. South Staffordshire Regi- ment, England, b. 25th December, 1860 ; d. 8tb July, 1886. I. Esther Borden. II. Elizabeth Mary, m. Major J. M. Delamere. Crest tised — A dexter arm embowed, vested az., cuff or, the hand ppr. pointing with the forefinger to a star gold. Motto — Persever- ando. Residence — Rusholme, Toronto, of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. province EINLAYSON, JOHN HARVEY, Esq. of Strelda, Stanley-street, North Adelaide, South Australia, J. P., editor and part proprietor of the Sovdh Australian Register, and member of the North Adelaide School Board of Advice under Education Department, h. 3rd February, 1843 ; m. 20th March, 1878, Alice, daughter of the late Thomas Shoobridge, Esq. of London, merchant, by Jane Pym, his wife (a descendant of John Pym, temp. Chakles I), and by her has issue, I. Harvey Pym, h. 11th January, 1881. II. Katharine Alice, h. 14th August, lb79.