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 BUEKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 173 STEEL, REV. ROBERT, M.A., Ph.D., D.D., of Lewington House, St. Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, minister of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Sydney, h. at Pontypool, co. Monmouth, 15th May, 1827 ; m. 23rd November, 1853, Mary, daughter of John- Allardyce, Esq. of Glass, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and has issue, I. John James, M.B., Ch.B., L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. Edinburgh, b. 31st August, 1854. II. Robert Alexander (Rev.), M.A. (Sydney), minister at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, b. 4th July, 1856 ; m. 1879, Amy, daughter of James Barnet, Esq., colonial architect, Sydney, and has issue two sons and three daughters. III. Hugh Peden, of Sydney, solicitor, b. 30th January, 1865. I. Mary Jane, m. James Robertson, Esq., accountant. II. Anne Gillespie, m. Edward Kossuth Satchell, Esq, dentist, J. P. III. Elspett AUardyce, m. Arnold Bertie Low, Esq. The Rev. Dr. Steel was educated at the School of Ochiltree, Ayi'shire, and at the Royal Burgh Academy of Ayr; in 1843 entered King's College and University, Aberdeen, and in 1846 proceeded to New College, Edinburgh, to study theology; minister first at Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde, 1852, after- wards at Salford, Manchester, co. Lancaster, 1855, and while there he was chosen one of the executive committee of the United Kingdom Alliance ; subsequently removed to Cheltenham, co. Gloucester, 1859; and was trans- lated to Sydney, New South Wales, 1862. Dr. Steel is councillor of St. Andrew's College, within the University of Sydney, and was prominently associated in the establishment of that college. He has for many years been elected by the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales tutor in church history and pastoral theology, and in 1867 was appointed moderator of the general assembly. In 1872 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, the University of Gottingen having conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1861. Dr. Steel is the author of Doing Good, or the Christian in Walks of Usefulness, 1858 ; Samuel the Prophet, 1859 ; Lives made Sublime by Faith and Works, 1861 ; The Christian Teacher in Sunday Schools, 1867 ; Burning and Shining Lights, or Memoirs of Good Ministers, 1864 ; The Neiv Hebrides and Christian Missions, 1880 ; The Shorter Catechism Illustrated, 1885, and The Achievements of Youth, 1890 ; in addition to which he edited for several years the Presbyterian Magazine and the Australian Witness, after- wards the Presbyterian, and in earlier life contributed articles on religious subjects to the British Messenger, the Quiver, and several other publications. ILincaac. EoBEET Steel, Esq., whose family was for many generations connected with Ayr- shire, Scotland, m. Jean Peden (who d. 1847), a descendant of Alexander Peden, the cele- brated preacher of the Church of Scotland in the days of the Covenant, who was ejected from the parish of Glenluce, 1662, and d. 1685. Mr. Steel d. 1859, having had a son,