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 308 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. aaansijt of ^tvt^. WRIGHT, HON. JOHN ARTHUR, M.I.C.E., o£ Perth, Western Australia, J. P., member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, engineer-in-chief, formerly commissioner of railways and director of public works, i. 25th November, 1841 ; m. 20th January, 1870, Katherine, second daughter of Peter Whitington, Esq., M.D., of Tuxford, co. Nottingham, England, and has issue, I. John Harold Kitson, b. at St. Petersburg, Russia, 1st November, 1870. II. Richard Evelyn, b. at St. Petersburg, 20th February, 1872. I. Hilda Kathleen. ILinjage, This family have resided for generations at Buxton, near Norwicli, England. EiCHAED Weight, Esq., d. at Brighton, CO. Sussex, England. By Sarah, his wife (who d. at Finchley, co. Middlesex), he had issue, John Weight, Esq., M.I.C.E., m. at Brigliton, England, 24th April, 1839, Mary, daughter of, and d. at The Pre- cincts, Rochester, co. Kent, 3rd December, 1883, having had by her (who also d. at The Precincts, 23rd December, 1888), John Aethue (Hon.), M.I.C.E., now of Perth. Richard Ernest, m. Sara, daughter of John Niven, Esq. of Uitenhage, Cape Colony, and has issue, a son, John Niven. Alfred, d. unm. Edward James, unm. Mary Anna, ?re. Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Robert Cruickshank, R.E., who was appointed ensign, 11th June, 1858; lieutenant, 27th August, 1858; cap- tain, 15th May, 1870 ; major, 21st De- cember, 1877 ; and lieutenant-colonel, 1st June, 1885. Arms used — Az., two bars or, in chief three leopards' heads cabossed of the last. Crest — A game-cock's head erased gw. Mottoes — Over crest, Quod volo erit ; below shield, Contre fortune bon coeur. Residence — Perth, Western Australia. WRIGHT, SYDNEY EVELYN LIARDET, Esq. of Hope Lodge, Hopper-street, Wellington, New Zealand, late paymaster R.N., has served twenty years in the Royal Navy ; was engaged in the Syrian War (1839-40), and during the Crimean War in the "Quake" gunboat; was specially gazetted for sinking a Russian gunboat at the taking of Kertch ; and was five years on the West Coast of Africa engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, for which services he has received the Turkish Order of the Medjidie, and holds four medals and two clasps. He emigrated to the colony of New Zealand in 1858, and entered into mercantile pursuits ; b. 7th June, 1825; m. 26th September, 1857, at St. Alphage Church, Greenwich, England, Georgina Amelia, eldest daughter of the late William Pickford, Esq. of Coventry, co. Warwick, and has had issue, I. Sydney Evelyn, b. 5th April, 1872. II. Fortunatus Evelyn, b. 8th August, 1874. III. Albert Edward Evelyn, b. 6th July, 1880.