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 530 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Hineagc. The family surname was originally Mendes, but was changed by Mr. F. M. Button's grandfatiier, Fkedekick Hush Hasipdet Menhes, to that of the family of the latter's grandmother, who was descended from the Uiittons, of Dulto:!, in Clieshire. According to tradition, the faniilv of .MEXDEScame from Spain as religious refugees. They were for a long time settled in London, and were known as loan eontrajtors in the time of Geoege II, by whom one of them was knighted, tIz., Sir Samuel Meudes. Fbederick ITrGH Hampde.v Button, sometime British consul at Cuxhaveu, in the kingdom of Hanover, m. 30th August, 1804, Mary Ann Pollock, and had issue, I. Henry. II. William Hampden, who proceeded to South Australia, in 1839. III. Pelham, settled in Sydney, New South Wales, prior to 1830. IV. Frederick Hansbrow, of Anlaby, cos. L'ght and Eyre, and Adelaide, South Australia, and of Bover Street, in tlie parish of St. George's, Hanover Square, CO. Middlesex, sometime member of the Legislative Council of South ..usf ralia ; w-ent to the province from New South Wales in 1839 ; and rf. in London, 22nd Apra, 1890, aged 78. V. Francis Stackeb, of whom presently. Louisa Catherine, m. F. Bkodermaxx. Charlotte Maria, m. B. T. Cankrie.v. The youngest son, Feancis Staceek Button, C.M.G., F.R.G-.S., agent-general in London for South I. II. Australia, from ISe.'j to 1877 ; I. at Cuxhaven, in the Kingdom of Hanover, 1818 ; emigrated to Sydney in 1839 (having previously spent five years in South America), proceeding thence to Melbourne, and, finally, in 1841, to South Australia ; was a member of the Legis- lative Council of South Australia from 1S51 to 1857, and of the Legislative Assembly from 1857 to 186.5 ; minister for Crown lands from 1857 to 1859, and again in 18C3 ; com- missioner for Sontli Australia to the London exhibition of 1862 ; minister of Public Works, 1865, which office he resigned the same year to accept the post of agent- general for the colony in England, and was created C.M.G-. in 1872. Mr. Button was the first to discover copper in South Australia in 1S4'5, on a site which sub'^equently became famous as the' Kapunda Copper Mine. He m. 1849, Caro- line, daughter of Marshall MacDekmott, and d. in London. 25th January, 1877, having by her (who il. in 1855) had issue, I. Frane MacBermott, of whom we treat. II. Frederick, solicitor, of the firm of Wilkins, Blyth, Button, and Hartley, and a member of the coimcil of the Koyal Colonial Institute, m. Becember, 1883. Beatrice Airaee, eldest daughter of Colonel Charles Bridgeu, of Brigh- ton, CO. Sussex, J. P., and has issue one son, Francis Bridger. I. Caroline Birch, m. 1878, Charles T. Mitchell, barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn, and has issue, 1. MacBermott ; 1. Borothy Button ; 2. Margaret Qrace ; and 3. May. Arms — Quartei'ly, erm. and gu., in the second and third quarters a fret within an orle or. Crest — A fret fessewise gu., in front of a plame__of five ostrich feathers alternately or and arg. Motto — Servabo fidem. Sesidcnce — 74, Lancaster Gate, London, W. Club — Conservative, St. James's Street, S.W. 33onai% HON. JAMES ALEXANDER BONAR, of Kilgi-aston, Hokilika, New Zealand, J. P., member of the Legislative Council of the colony of New Zealand, since 1868 ; Major Commanding Volunteers for the Westland District since 1868 ; chairman of the Hokitika Harbour Board, visiting justice to Her Majesty's gaol, and official visitor to lunatic asylum ; first major of Hokitika, chairman of Comity Council, 1868, and superintendent of the province of "Westland, 1874; 6. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 12th June, 1840; 19th October, 1875, Elliot Margaret, daughter of William Montgomerie Bell, merchant, of Melbourne, Victoria, an eai-ly and prominent colonist, and has issue, I. Archibald James Merle, h. 24th August, 1876. II. William Vivian Montgomerie, h. 7th December, 1877.