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 380 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 0till of ^^trnej> antr l^iama. n^EILL, WILLIAM, Esq. of the City Bank, Pitt-street, Sydney ; and of 1 ^ Ayr Park, Kiama, New South Wales, manager of the City Bank, consul for the Argentine Republic, and J. P. for the territories of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia; b. in East Greenock, Scotland, 19th January, 1829 ; m. 10th December, 1850, Helen, daughter of Alexander Lyle Patison, Esq., by Helen Forsythe, his wife, and has issue, I. Alexander Lyle Patison, h. 24th August, 1851; m. Nellie Alexander, and has issue oue son and one daughter. II. William John Walker. iir. Leopold Edward Flood, medical student, B.A. of the University of Sydney. He took the University gold medal for classics when in his 19th year. I. Agnes Allan Wharrie, m. 12th June, 1879, E. B. Woodhouse, Esq. of Mount Gibael. II. Helen Elizabeth Stuart. III. Charlotte Mary Jean, m. 5th September, 1887, Louis 0. Henderson, Esq., manager Real Estate Bank, Sydney. IV. Isabella Acacia Rose, m. Ur. Arthur Henderson, of Melbourne, Vic- toria. V. Lilian Florence Boyd. Prior to his arrival in Sydney, on 19th January, 1849, Mr. Neill was trustee of bankrupt estates in Glasgow, to which post he was gazetted in 1846. The same year he was appointed sub-inspector of the poor of Port Glasgow, which office he held until leaving Scotland. On his arrival in Sydney he first obtained an appointment in the Bank of Australia, and afterwards in the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, of which he was some time secre- tary, relinquishing that post in 1871 to take the management of the City Bank, which is still held by him. He was appointed J. P. for Queensland, 26th November, 1870, having previously been placed on the commission of the peace for New South Wales. He was appointed J. P. for Victoria ; later on for South Australia ; and on the 4th January, 1884, consul for the Argen- tine Republic. Mr. Neill was treasurer to the Sydney Bethel Union, in 1870, and is now one of the trustees of the Bethel jaroperty, and chairman of the board. He has for some years been chairman of the trustees of the Scar- borough Park Reserve, at Lady Robinson's Beach, Botany, and has also been chairman of the trustees of Cook Park Reserve, in the same locality. Uincaqe. It is believed that this family was for many centuries seated at Q-reenook. WlMlAM Neill, Esq., d. about 1844 (his •wife. Agnes Allan, having d. a few years pre- viously), leaving a son, William Neill, Esq. of Chapelton, East Greenock, Scotland, who d. about 1829, having had, by Mary, his wife, besides five daughters (two only of whom survive, one being Mrs. Wharrie, of Glasgow, widow,, mother of several sons and daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Milne, widow of Captain Milne,, lost at sea), two sons, William, d. in infancy, and the present William Neill, Esq., manager of the City Bank, Sydney. Residences — The City Bank, Pitt-streefc, Sydney ; and Ayr Park, Kiama, New South Wales.