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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 27 admitted a member of the Middle Temple, November, 1844, and practised a8 a special pleader under the Bar ; called to the Bar at the Middle Temple 6th June, 1853, and went the Oxford Circuit and Lichfield and Stafford Ses- sions. He reported for some years for the Laiv Journal, and has since given his services to the In- corporated Council of Law Re- porting for England and Wales ; made a county court judge 27th May, 1880, by Lord Chancellor Selborne; m. at Brighton, co. Sussex, 28th August, 1858, Louisa Fanny, daughter of Colonel Gor- don, and has issue, I. Louisa Gordon, b. 13th Jan- uary, 1860. II. Mary Virginie, h. 25th June, 1861. III. Henrietta, h. 10th May, 1863. 3 Charles (maj.-gen.), lieutenant- colonel Bengal Staff Corps, 5. 16th October, 1822; entered the mili- tary service of the E.I. Co., 11th June, 1839, and retired as major- general 23rd January, 1875. "While in India he was constantly employed on the Staff in Assam, and during the crisis in 1857 was principal assistant commissioner, Seebsaugur, Upper Assam. He m. 1st, 13th November, 1862, Mary Florence, widow of Colonel Hannay; she d. at Seebsaugur, Upper Assam, 31st August, 1863, without leaving issue by Major- General Holroyd, who m. 2ndly, 26th August, 1872, Anna Eliza, daughter of Thomas Smith, Esq., and by her (who died 7th January, 1880) has issue, I. Patrick Charles, h. 4th June, 1874. II. Edward Eraser Eochfort, b. 20th November, 1875. I. Nora Palmer, b. 30th Janu- ary, 1877. 4 John, b. 20th December, 1823 ; entered the Madras cavalry, 3rd August, 1844; took the surname of DoTETON in addition to and after that of Hoieotd, in 1831, in compliance with the wish of his uncle, General Sii- John Doveton, K.C.B. ; m. 5th July, 1847, Pau- line, daughter of Monsieur Amand Law de Clapernon, commissaire adjoint de la Marine en retraite, and d. in India, having had by her (who d. at Pondicherry, 6th November, 1886), I. John George, b. 29th July, 1848 ; d. 23rd AprU, 1864. II. Henri Victor, b. 19th Octo- ber, 1849; d. 27th August, 1850. III. Charles Albert Hodson, b. 6th June, 1851. IT. Edward William Law, b. 24th August, 1852; m. 6th August, 1874, to Marian Georgina Brizzi Bristeghi, of Bologna. T. James Amand, b. 13th May, 1856. VI. George Joseph Marius, b. 4th January, 1865. VII. A son, b. September, 1867 ; d. within a month. I. Mary, b. 16th September, 1854; d. 21st September, 1854. II. Mary Adolphine, b. 4th April, 1859. IH. Emma CecUe Blanche, tvrin with her sister, Emily Vir- ginie Louisa, b. 11th October, 1860; d. 12th September, 1861. IV. Emily Virginie Louisa, twin with her sister Emma CecUe Blanche, b. 11th October, 1860; d. 11th February, 1861. T. Victorine Henrica Francaise MathUde Genevieve, b. 18th June, 1862; d. 6th July, 1863. 1 Mary Anne, b. 8th August, 1829 ; m. at Exeter, co. Devon, June, 1850, Major-General Henry MUls, lieutenant - colonel Bengal Staff Corps (son of the Rev. William Mills, D.D., rector of St. Paul's, Exeter), who entered the E.I. Co.'s military service 20th Octo- ber, 1840, and became a major- general 12th August, 1876 ; served in the campaign of 1842 in Afghan- istan, and was present in the various actions from Candahar to Peshawur; in the Gwalior cam- paign, and present at the battle of Maharajpore, 29th December, 1843, and the Sutlej campaign of 1845 — 46, including the battles of Moodkee and Ferozeshah ; and was employed during the Indian Mutiny in 1857, in moving troops to the front. They have had issue, I. Henry Holroyd, b. 20th Sep- tember, 1860. II. William Holroyd, b. 14th September, 1862. I. Virginie Lucy, b. 15th May, 1851 ; m. 14th September, 1876, Surgeon-Major William West Quinton, M.B., hon. brigade surgeon. II. Mary Anne, b. 1st Decem- ber, 1852; d. 11th June, 1855. III. Ada, b. 5th Novembei-, 1856; d. 5th September, 1857.