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 290 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. I. Charles Archibald, b. 27th April, 1867. II. Archibald Keightley, b. 28th March, 1871. III. Sydney Hugo, b. 9th February, 1875. Hineage. Chaeles Nicholson, Esq. of London, ■who d. 1824, son of Charles Nicholson, Esq. of Cockermouth, Cumberland, m. Bar- bara, youngest daughter of John Ascough, Esq. of Bedale, co. York, and by her (who d. 1811) had an only surviving child, Chaeles, the present baronet. Creation— 8th April, 1859. Arms — Az. two bars nebuly arg. in chief a sun in splendour ppr. between two stars of eight points or. Crest — On a rock ppr. a lion's head az. charged with a star, as in the arms. Motto — Virtus sola nobilitas. Seat — The Grange, Totteridge, Herts. Cluh — Athenseum. €ouxt^ ot ^utaa. CORNEY, HON. BOLTON GLANVILL, M.R.C.S. England, of Na Tua ni Yalo, Suva, Fiji, member of the Legislative Council, and of the Native Regulation Board, since 1885 ; chief medical ofHcer, and sometime acting agent-general of immigration (appointed January, 1885), b. 10th December, 1851 ; educated at Fontainebleau, in London, and at Schwerin ; in 1877 entered the colonial service as government medical officer, Fiji; also health officer, Suva, 1877 ; and medical officer for the Immigration Depart- ment, 1881. He m. 1874, Evelyn, daughter of Roland Hill, Esq. of Nibley, CO. Gloucester, England, by Elizabeth Cornock, his wife, and has had issue, I. Evelyn Glanvill, b. 1875 ; d. same year. II. Orlando Pridham, b. 1878 ; d. 1882. Hincacie. Henry Coenet, Esq. of Deal, co. Kent, m. at St. Lawrence, Isle of Thanet, England, 1st January, 1Y76, Mary Stock, of Ramsgate, in the Isle of Thanet, and had a son, Bolton Cornet, Esq., formerly of Maize Hill, Greenwich, co. Kent, and afterwards of Barnes, co. Surrey, England, b. 1784 ; was a civil servant on the staff of Greenwich Hospital for about 40 years, and, retiring in 1815 or 6, devoted himself to the critical study of literary antiquarian lore, especially Shakesperean ; was a member of the Royal Society of Literature, and for many years an honorary auditor for the Royal Literary Fund. He edited Locke on the Conduct of the Understanding, Ooldsmith's Poems, Thomson's Seasons, and some of the Hakluyt Society's reprints. He also wrote an authori- tative work on the Bayeaux tapestry, also a controversial criticism on the elder Disraeli's Curiosities of Litterature, and was a frequent and much respected correspondent to Notes and Queries. Mr. Corney m. at St. Alphage, Greenwich, in 1848, Henrietta Mary, daughter of Admiral Richard Pridham, R.N., of Ply- mouth, CO. Devon. This distinguished naval officer entered the Navy in August, 1790, was present in many attacks made by Nelson on the coasts of France and Spain, having previously seen much active service, and acted as adjutant to the naval battalion at the reduction of Minorca, in November, 1798. His ship, the " Hussar," being wrecked during her passage home with despatches from Ferrol, 8th February, 1804, he was made a prisoner of war in France, and was detained as such until May, 1814 ; on 15th June of which year he was advanced to the rank of commander. In a severe gale off the Cape of Good Hope, on the 23rd September, 1829, he had the misfortune to breals his left arm, besides sustaining other severe injuries, by a fall on the deck at midnight. On the occasion of his advancement to post-rank, 22nd July, 1830, he returned home, and did not again go afloat. The admiral m. 20th March, 1801, Mary Glanvill, of Catchfrench, St. Germans, co. Cornwall, a lineal de- scendant of Sir Jolin Glanvill, of Broadhinton, Wilts (where monumental tablets are erected to the memory of himself and wife), grand- father of John Glanvill, Esq. {d. 1735), who