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 2£6 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Innd, and were sent to Grove Hall Academy, Bow, under the tuition of Dr. Lindsar. After luwing travelled (in 1815) through several continentnl countries, he returned to Neiv Soutli Wales in 1817, in the " Lord Eldod," and assisted his father in the manage- ment of the Camden Estate, again visited England in 1828, returning in 1830, and went to England for the third time in 1836, taking petitions to the King and Parliament on transportation, immigration, and representative institutions. He then published Neiv South Wales, its Present State and Future Prospects. He returned to Sydney in 18.39, when he became a member of the Legislative Council, was rejected by the electors of Cumberland, 1843 ; elected for Camden, 1848, and again under the new constitu- tion in 1851, continuing to serve until 1856 ; in 1859 was returned for West Camden, but declined re-election ; again left for England in 1860, and returned to the colony in 1864. In England he was a member of the Inter- national Statistical Congress, and one of the commissioners of the Exhibition of 1862. When offered the honour of knighthood, in re- cognition of his public services, he respectfully declined the proffered distinction. Mr. James Mac- arthur m. 14th June, 1838, Emily, second daughter of Henry Stone, Esq. of Lombard-street, London, banker, and d. 21st April, 1867, having had by her (who d. 27th November, 1880) an only daugh- ter, Elizabeth, now of Camden Park, Menangle, New South Wales, h. 8th May, 1840, m. 31st January, 1867, Arthur Alex- ander Walton Onslow, Esq., retired captain, E.N., who was h. at Trichinopoly, India, 2nd August, 1833, his father being at that time in the H.E.I. Co.'s civil service ; went to Sydney, 1838, and thence to England, 1841 ; educated at schools in Surrey and Nottinghamshire, and entered the navy in May, 1847, on board H.M.S. " Howe," 120 guns. Captain Sir James Stirling, first governor of Western Austra- lia ; was for three years on service in the Channel and Mediterranean squadrons, and during that period took the Qvieen Dowager Adelaide to Madeira ; was sent to the West Coast of Africa in 1850, and the following year svas present at the attacks on Lagos, in the Bight of Biafra, — a great stronghold of the slave trade — now an English colony. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant for gallant conduct displayed by him in a severe stoi-m on his way to England in H.M. paddle-steamer " Volcano ; " sailed for the Baltic in March, 1854, and the following year was present at the bombard- ment of Sweaborg. He was next employed on the Austra- lian station in H.M.S. " Herald," surveying the East Australian coast, re- turning to England, 1861 ; was made commander, 1863, and subsequently went to Sydney on sick leave ; was jslaced on the retired list, April, 1871, and promoted to the rank of post-captain. He represented Camden in the New South Wales parlia- ment for many years, having been first returned in Janu- ary, 1870. Captain Onslow was the eldest son of Arthur Pooley Onslow, Esq. of Send Grove, Kipley, co. Surrey, England (see Onslow, Bart., in Burke's Peerage), by Rosa Koberta, his wife, daughter of Alexander MacLeay, Esq., E.E.S.,F.L.S., for many years colonial secretary of New South Wales, and elected speaker of the first Legisla- tive Council in Australia ; and d. at Camden Park, 31st January, 1882, leaving issue, 1. James William, h. 7th November, 1867 ; 2. Arthur John, 6. 29th April, 1873 ; 3. George MacLeay, 5. 2nd May, 1875 ; 4. ' William Arthur, b. 27th May, 1877; 5. Francis Arthur, b. 7th June, 1879 ; 1. Emily Susan, b. 12th June, 1869, d. 20th April, 1876 ; and 2. Sibella Eosa, J. 4th June, 1871. 4. William (Hon. Sir), knight, of Camden Park, Menangle, New South Wales, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, b. at Parramatta, in De- cember, 1800; assisted in the managament of the Camden Estate. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1849 to 1855; representative commissioner for the colony at the Paris Exhi- bition of 1855, at the close of which he received the honour of