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 252 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. I. Helen Mary Emily, h. 3rd April, 1874. II. Edith Jane Katherine, h. 28th October, 1880. III. Constance Gwladys, 6. 14th September, 1887. Hineage. Eev. Eobeet Holt, rector of Finmere, CO. Oxford (whose father came from Man- chester, CO. Lancaster, England), was private chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham, at Stowe, until presented to the living of Finmere in 1790. The same year he m. Sarah Fowler (whose father resided at Manchester, and m. Miss Gee, niece to Major Shipley, who was present at the Battle of Dettingen, where he had three horses shot under him), who d. at Bath, 20th December, 1844. He d. in 1802, when a stone was erected to his memory in Fin- mere Church, by Earl Temple, with an inscrip- tion by the Eev. Frodsham Hodgson, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. His son, Eev. Robert Fowlee Holt, M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, resided at Post- ford House, Albury, co. Surrey, and Eton College, near Windsor. He m. 11th De- cember, 1828, Jane, daughter of Sydenham Malthus, Esq. (by Mariana Georgina Symes, his wife, sister of Admiral Ryves, who was in command of the "Gibraltar," under Lord Nelson, in the Mediterraneau, in 1800. The Svves' are an old Dorsetshire family, resident at' Damery Court, Blandford, and Eanston House), eldest brother of Eev. Thomas Eobert Malthus, author of Political Eco- nomy, &c., sons of Daniel Malthus, Esq. of the Eookery, near Dorking, co. Surrey (by Henrietta Catherine, his wife, daughter of Daniel Graham, Esq. of Harrow, co. Middle- s-ex, and granddaughter of Thomas Graham, Esq. of Gartmore, Scotland, and of Sudbury Green, near Harrow, apothecary to Eings George I and II, who d. at his house in Pall Mall, London, 14th May, 1733, and was buried with his wife, Anne (who predeceased him in January, 1724), at Harrow, where a tablet was erected to their memory, on the south wall of the nave of the parish church), whose father, Sydenham Malthus, Esq., lived in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, and had property in Charterhouse-square, London. Some members of his family lived at Eeading, Berks, one of whom built and endowed a green-coat school, at Blewberry, Berks. Eev. E. F. Holt d. at Eeading, Berks, 27th January, 1870, and was buried in the Old Upton Churchyard, near Slough, Bucks. By his said wife (who d. 9th May, 1845, at Eton College, and is buried in the Churchyard to the old Chapel of Ease there) he had, amongst other issue, I. William Harvey, now of Parra- matta and Eockhampton. II. Henry Farquhar, h. 1835 ; m. 1862, Jessie Deschamps, daughter of Major Walsh, E.A., and has issue, three sons and two daughters. III. George Eeginald, h. 1844; m. 1880, Minnie Eoss, and has issue, three daughters. I. Mary Jane, b. 1831 ; tinm. II. Harriet Louisa, b. 1837; m. 1867, Eobert Costa Dryland, Esq. of Eead- ing, Berks, and has issue, two sons and two daughters. III. Emily Anne, b. 1839 ; tinm. IV. Fanny Katherine, h. 1842 ; unm. Crest used — A dexter cubit arm in armour, erect, holding in the handppr. a pheon also erect. Residences — The Firs, Parramatta, New South Wales ; and Glenprairie, Eockhamp- ton, Queensland, Australia. Clubs — Union, Sydney, New South Wales, and Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Aus- tralia. HEADLAM, CHARLES, Esq. of Egleston, Macquarie River, Ross, Tasmania, J. P., o. 22nd November, 1816 ; arrived in Tasmania with his parents, 22nd November, 1820 ; was appointed a territorial m.agistrate 11th May, 1847, which position he still holds, and afterwards a coroner, which appointment he resigned. He m. 14th June, 1842, the only daughter of John Bayles, Esq. of Rokeby, Macquarie River, Tasmania, and has issue, I. Anthony, h. 10th June, 1843 ; m. Ellen Reeves, and has issue, four sons and six daughters. II. John, I. 17th November, 1844; m. Edith Vicary, and has issue, three sons and two daughters, in. Robert, h. 4th December, 1846 ; m. Julia Gibson, and has issue, three sons and five daughters.