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 liriiKD'S COLOXIAL (IvX'l'li V, (ill V. llatiklii Kllcn, m. Kichard SissoNS, M.KX'.'S.li,, but has no issue. VI. iMiiilv Fninc-i-s, m. W. K. StssONS, (laii^htei*s, Ri'sidenve — Aiu--klan(l, New Zealtuul VII. Sophia Maivlla, rf. s. p. vni. Laura liavinia, m. J. ll-iw.inl jACKsitx, CIO., and lias issue, one son and tlireo dauKlUers. HON. SIR MATTHEW HENRY DAVIKS, K„t., .d' InvtM-.nay, Hays- water, Victoria, t'.-.spcakor of the Legislative As.sembly of 'icluria, barrister-at-law aud solicitor, i. at CTcelong, 1st February, ISfiO; m. at Sr.. Enooli's, Melbourue, 2.'Jrd March, 1875, Elizabeth Locke, eldest daufjhter of the Rev. Peter S. Mercicu, D.D., of Melbourne, Presbyterian luluister, and has issue, I. Arnold iMF.iiCKU, ii. llth February, 1876. II. Henry Gascoigne, h. 8th February, 1879. III. Cecil Haryood Locke, li. at South Kensington, London, 28th Jniie, 1886. [. Marion Agnes, h. ;]th April, 1877. II. Beatrice Elizabeth, h. 27th June, 1880. III. Muriel Kate, 6. 19th October, 1881. IV. Olive Blanche, h. 27th October, 1884. Sir Matthew was educated at Geeloug College, matriculated at Melbourne University, 1869, and was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria 1875 ; was for five years honorary secretary to the council of the Law Institute of Victoria; a J. P. for the central bailiwick; mayor of the city of Prahran, 1881-82 ; represented the electoral district of St. Kllda in parliament, 1883-88 ; member of the royal commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land, 1885; sworn an executive councillor February, 1886, and joined the Gillies- Ueakin government as minister without responsible office ; visited England in connection with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition 1886-87 ; chairman of roy.al commission on banking 1887 ; speaker of the Legislative Assembly, October, 1887 ; chairman of royal commission on electric lighting and ventilation of parliament houses, 1888; executive commissioner and a vice-president of the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne, 1888; returned unopposed for the electoral district of Toorak 1889; unanimously re-elected speaker, 1889, which office he resigned on his retirement from Parliament in April, 1892; knighted by patent 22nd January, 1800. Uinraac. Key. John U.wiks, of Trevecea t'oilege, Soutli Wales, eongregational minister, m. Dorothy Anna Maria, daughter of John Henry Schoen (whose mother was a daugh- ter of George Finch, of the family ol' the Karl of Winchelsea and Nottingliam), and had a son, Ebesezer Davies, of Bracknell, Berks, liexirlences — Inverniay, Bayswater, Viel oria Clith — Australian, in Melbourne. vol.. n. Jingluud, 4. ISUN; ,„. I.SIil. Rudi, daughter of M.ark Bakti-ett, of Braeknell, Berks (she d. 1853), and </. 1886, leaving issue, I. Jolm Mark. II. MATTHiiW Henry (Hon. Sir), ex- speaker oi the Legislative Assembly of Yieloria.
 * niil liiis issue, two sons and two