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 536 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRr. ir. Jane, h. at Colac, Victoria, llth June, 1864. lit. Caroline Fraser, h. at Geelong, 21st November, 1867. IV. Margaret McDonald, h. at Geelong, lth September, 1869. V. Alice Beatrice, b. at Geelong, 21st December, 1870. VI. Catherine Hill, h. at Geelong, 24th April, 1873. VII. Agnes Harper, b. at Geelong, 25th October, 1879. Mr. Connor emigrated to Victoria in 1852, sailing from Liverpool in the ship " ^Minnesota," arriving in Melbourne, August, 1852, and in 1853 he settled at Colac. He was first elected a member of the Legislative Assembly in 186 i, for the electorate district of Polwarth and South Grenville, which district he continued to represent np to the end of 1870, and was re-elected for the same constituency in 1873. In 1872 he was elected a vice-president, and in the following year president of the Geelong and Western Agricultural Society. He was elected a member of the Geelong Tonn Council in November, 1872, and has since been re-elected ; and on three separate occasions was elected mayor of the town. Mr. Connor actively assisted in establishing the Geelong Free Library, and has devoted much time and money to the advancement of agriculture and the acclimatisation of various kinds of fish, in Lake Colac and other waters in the Western District. Ilinraar. Jonx CoNXOE, of Stoneyforcl, nearLisburn. CO. Antrim, Ireland, a largo farmer and stock owner, b. 17th March, 1792 ; m. Eliza FniTON, of Killultagh Uotise, Drumbo, co. J?e«irfence— Eullauda, Eyrie Street, Gceloiig, Victoria. Antrim, who was J. in April, 179S ; and d. February, 1876. He d. ISth July, 1850, having had amongst, other issue, the present Hon. Joseph Henry Coxnoe. Crouton. CAPTAIN FREDERICK HENRY TROUTON, of Clifdale House, Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, J.P. for the colonies of New South Wales and Queensland (for the latter since 1877), b. at Chester, England, 14th January, 1820 ; m. at St. Paul's Church, Geelong, Victoria, 2.3rd April, 1861, Harriette, daughter of Captain Sydney Smith (who in 1840 emigrated to Sydney with his family from Dublin in his own ship " Alesandrina," and settled as a squatter near Port Fairy, Western Victoria), by his wife, one of the family of Clifford of Dublin, and has issue, I. Chaeles Sidney Clifford. II. Frederick Thomas. III. Gardiner Edmund. IV. Edward Creek. I. Emily Frances, m. Percy Herbert Small, of Brisbane, Queensland. II. Florence Mabel. III. Ethel Mary. Captain Trouton was educated at the Rev. J. P. Sargent's school in North St. George's Street, Dublin, Ireland, and entered the mercantile m.arine in 1843. His first voyage was to China, where he saw the early efforts in