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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 5-49 elcofcd vice-cliancollor of the University of Melbourne in 1858, holding that ofEce for twenty-nine consecutive years, and on the 4th April, 1887, he was elected chancellor of the L^niversity, which office he has since continued to fill. To Sir Aiithony Brownless is especially duo the honour of founding the Medical School in the University of Melbourne, and framing for it, regulations, which were at that time pronounced by the General Council of Medical Education of Great Britain to he as complete as at any school of medicine in the world. He has been a member of the senate of the Uiiivorsity since its constitution in 18G7, and i.s the seiiioi' member of that bodv. He is senior consulting physician to the Melbourne Hospital, and honcn-ary consulting physician to St. Vincent's Hospital, honorary vice-president of the Australian Federation League of Victoria, medical referee to the Victoria Life and General Insurance Company, and late government official visitor of industrial and reformatory schools, and was formerly inspector of the same, physician to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, to the Orplianage of St. Vincent de Paul, to the Magdalen Asylum, the Industrial and Reformatory Schools at Abbotsford, and many other public institutions. He was for thirty year.s a member of the Catholic Committee on Pi'imary Schools, and has taken as deep an interest in primary as he has in university education. He has been a member of several important govei'nment commissions. In 1862, he sat on a commission to inquire and report on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum and the treatment of lunatics, which led to important reforms in the management of asylums, great amelioration in the treatment of lunatics, and the erection in Victoria of suitable hospitals for the insane. In 1879, he sat on a commission for inquiring into the condition and management of indu.strial and reformatory schools; this commission succeeded in initiating an entirely new system for the treatment of juvenile criminals, which has proved eminently successful. He was also a commissioner for the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition of 1888. Sir Anthony has always been a warm supporter of British manly sports, and for many years kept at his own expense one of the best and most beautiful packs of harriers in Victoria. In 1870, His Holiness Pope Pius IX conferred on him the honour of knight- hood of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and in 1S8H Pope Leo Xlll created him a knight commander of the Order of Pius. In 1884 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; in 1888 the University of St. Andrew's conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D., and in the same year he also received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Melbourne; he was created C.M.G. in 1S88, and K.C.M.G. in 1893. Hi'ntactf. The family of Brownless has been resident in the eouiitj of IJurliam, England, for a very long period, and this branch i.s related by marriage to the Earls of Lauderdale, the Stanleys of Cross Hall, co. Lancashire, the Balfours of Whittinghaine, East Lothian, the and the Maddisons of Hole House m the same county. A member of that family, Antuonv Brownless, m. 22nd Ecbruary, ]77St, Ann, daiigliter of Michael Coi.LiXG, of Darlington, co. Durliam, sister of Michael Coi.LiNO, Major in the Light Horse Volunteers Greeuwells of Broom Shields, co. Durham, | of London and Westminster* (who was for a Colling, by his regiment, on his retirement after thu'ty years important services to the corps.
 * Sir A. C. Brownless holds, as an heirloom, a valuable silver cup, presented to Major