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 232 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. V. John Russell Dalglisli, b. 13tli October, 1880. Ti. Arthur Ferguson, b. lOth August, 1884. IV. Alice Wood. v. Jessy Agnes Theodora. The Hon. William Walker arrived in Sydney with his parents in 1837 ; educated at Windsor ; admitted an attorney in 1852 ; represented Windsor in the Legislative Assembly for ten years, from 1860 to the end of 1869 ; and appointed to the Legislative Council 30th December, 1887. He was the chief founder of the School of Arts in the town of Windsor, and was its first president, which office he i-esigned after seventeen years' service ; was secre- tary of the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society for eleven years, and wrote its history in 1856. In 1871 he was elected an alderman of Windsor, and after- wards served the office of mayor of that borough. Htncaae. This family was settled at Kinross, Kinross- sliii-e, Scotland, and in the churchyard of Kinross the tombstones of the earlier mem- bers are still to be seen. G-EOEGE Walkeb, Esq., was b. at Kinross, 1734 ; m. Agnes Eeston ; d. at Glasgow, 1825, and was buried with his wife in the burying- ground of the cathedral of G-lasgow. His son, WiiiLiAM Walkee, Esq. of G-lasgow, was, with his father, connected in business with the great firm of Robert Dalglish and Co., of Glasgow. He m., in 1794, Agnes Wilson, of Glasgow, and by her (who d. I7th November, 1832, aged 57, and was buried with her husband in Cathedral Cemetery, Glasgow) left at his decease, 3rd March, 1834, aged 61, Geoege Walkee, Esq., formerly of Glas- gow, N.B., and afterwards of Windsor, New South Wales, was educated for the Presby- terian ministry at the University of Glasgow, but finally adopted teaching as his profession, and emigrated to New South Wales, under the auspices of the Kev. Dr. Lang, in the year 1837. He m. at Glasgow, 23rd Novem- ber, 1824, Elizabeth Ferguson, of Glasgow (who d. at Windsor, New South Wales, 7th December, 1876, aged 76), and d. at Windsor, New South Wales, 26th September, 1883, aged 87, leaving issue, William (Hon.), of Crescentville. George, m. Sarah Smith, of Pitt Town, New South Wales. Elizabeth, m. Rev. Canon George Banks Smith, of Hobart, Tasmania. Crest tised—A stag standing at gaze under a nvt tree, all ppr. Motto — Semper vigi- lans. Residence — Crescentville, Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. Wn^m cif iHtlhoiinte antr tapper jHatctiott. YERDON, HON. SIR GEORGE FREDERIC, K.C.M.G., C.B., F.R.S., of Queen-street, Melbourne, and Alton, Upper Macedon, Victoria, Aus- tralia ; b. at Bury, co. Lancaster, England, 21st January, 1884; m. 28th March, 1861, Annie, second daughter of the late John Armstrong, Esq. of Melbourne, solicitor, and by her (who d. 22nd August, 1889) has issue, I. Arthur Laurence Ridley, b. 1862. II. Reginald, b. 1865. III. Egbert Sumner, b. 1868. IV. Nevil, b. 1885. Sir G. P. Verdon emigrated to Melbourne in 1851 ; was called to the Victorian bar 1863. In 1857, he was engaged with the volunteer force in suppressing an outbreak of the convicts ; in 1858, was honorary assistant in the Astro- nomical Observatory ; retui^ned to the Legislative Assembly for Williamstown in 1859, and was treasurer for Victoria in 1860 and 1861, and from 1863 to