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 BURKE'S COLOXIAL GENTRY. 211 School ; emigrated to South Australia in 1858, first established himself as an importer and afterwards as a brewer, finally retiring from business, 1887. In 1875 he built the Kent Town Brewery, in Ruudle-road. In 1872 he entered Parliament, and accepted the office of Minister of Education, 1884; was mayor of Kensington and Norwood, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1872, and 1873; and of Adelaide, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1887, and 1888 ; commissioner at Inter- national Exhibitions at Philadelphia, 1876, Paris, 1878, Sydney, 1880, and at Melbourne, 1881 ; commissioner at Colonial and Indian Exlaibition in London, 1886, and at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, 1888 ; vice-president and promoter of the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition, 1887; president of the South Australian Zoological and Acclimatization Society, trustee of the Savino-s Bank, and a member of the Board of Management of the Adelaide Hospital, and other institutions. He was created K.C.M.G., 1888. Arms — Per pale gu. and az. on a chev. nebuly-counter-nebnly or, between two bezants in chief, and a cross crosslet fitchee in base of the third, a pellet between two cross crosslets fitchee of the second. Crest — A goat's head couped arg. gorged with a collar gemel az. and between two bezants. Motto — Dum spiro spero. Besidence—The Acacias, Marryatville, Adelaide, South Australia. Clubs — Adelaide and Austral. Cprtoljitt ot 0mxtpi TYRWHITT, RICHARD, Esq. of Nantyr, West Gwillimbury, Canada, lieutenant-colonel 36th battalion active Militia (Peel regiment), first returned to Parliament for South Riding, co. Simcoe, Ontario, 16th February, 1882. He served as lieutenant in a provisional battalion on Niagara frontier in 1866, and in the North West Rebellion Campaign, 1885, commanded the Wimbledon Team in 1866, b. at Tecumseth, Simcoe, Ontario, 20th November, 1842; m. at Trinity College Chapel, Toronto, 26th April, 1870, Emma, daughter of the Ven. Archdeacon George Whitaker, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, Provost of Trinity College, Toronto (who d. at the Rectory, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England, August, 1882), and has issue, I. Richard Edmund, b. October, 1872. II. George Herbert, b. September, 1874. I. Alice Mary. b. 29th March, 1871. ri. Emma Mildred, b. October, 1875. lu. Elizabeth, b. February, 1881. IV. Charlotte Louisa, b. April, 1883. v. Arundel, b. June, 1886. Hi'ncaar. This family, styled by Camden in his Britanuica "the honourable and ancient house of Tyrwhitts, knts.," has been seated for several centuries in the north of England. It has had an able historian in one of its members, Mr. Robert Philip Tyrwhitt. The first person of the name of whom we have any certain account, is a SlE Hkeculps, who is said (on the authority of the Vincent and Harleian MSS.) to liave been knighted and settled in Northumberland, 2nd William I. This knight, or his son, bearing the same P 2