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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 279 iHcJHillan oi ^ptrnep. MOny/TILLAN, HON. WILLIAM, of Sydney, New South Wales, J3jL Australia, colonial treasurer and minister for Railways, and one of the representatives of N.S.W. at the National Australasian Federal Convention ; b. at Londonderry, Ireland, 14th November, 1850 ; m. 8th March, 1878, Ada Charlotte, daughter of Frederick and Florence Gi-aham, and has issue, I. William McArthur, b. 27th July, 1879. II. Gibson, b. May, 1883. I. Elizabeth Charlotte, b. January, 1882. II. Constance, b. February, 1885. Mr. McMillan was educated in Dublin and London ; in 1869, emigrated to New South Wales, arriving in Sydney, 26th November of that year, and immediately entered into commercial pursuits. In 1886 he was elected chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he had been a member for several years previously, and in 1887 was returned to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Sydney. He was one of the representatives for Sydney at the Commercial Congress, held in London in 1886, in connection with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. Hfncaae. Mr. McMillan's ancestors were settled in Dunmore, Scotland, the family emigrating from Scotland to the north of Ireland about 1745. Ret. Gibson McMillan, of Melbourne, Victoria, and formerly Wesleyan minister of Londonderry, Ireland, son of Chaeles McMillan, Esq., m. Miss McArthur, daugh- ter of the Rev. John McArthur, of London- derry, by Sarah Finlay, his wife, and sister of the late Sir William McArthur, K.C.M.G., F.R.G-.S., of Gwydyr House, Brixton Rise, London, and of the Reform Club, for many years M.P. for Lambeth, and alJerman of London, lord mayor thereof 1881, and sheriff' of London and Middlesex, 1868 — 9 ; and of Alexander McArthur, Esq. of Holland Park, London, merchant, D.L. for J^ondon, J.P. CO. Surrey, and M.P. for Leicester, formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly, and afterwards member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and had issue, I. John (Rev.), LL.D. (T.C.D.), b. April, 1844 ; m. Annie Robinson, of Dublin ; and d. at Edinburgh about 1885, having had issue, a daughter, Lilly, b. about 1872. II. William (Hon.), of Sydney. Arms used — Or, a lion ramp, sa., in chief three mullets az. Crest — A dexter and, sinister hand issuing from the wreath, brandishing a two-handed sword ppr. Motto — Miseris succurrere disco. 'Resid"nce —Sydney, New South Wales, Aus ralia. 3^tnnetrj> of €Utrslit. KENNEDY, WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN, Esq. of Ellerslie, Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand, b. 20th May, 1857 ; m. 15th February, 1884, Jessie, daughter of George Richard Meredith, Esq. of Rocky Point, Kakahu, Hilton, Canterbury, New Zealand, of the ancient family of the Mereditlis, of Pentrebychan Hall, Wrexham, co. Denbigh, and has issue, Renel Gershorn, b. 13th May, 1885.