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 658 BURKE'S COLONIAL GEXTRY. Armi — Arff. three hars git. on a canton of the last a mullet or, in chief a crescent for diff'erence. Crest — A martlet p/ir. Motto — Fidelitas in adrersi's. Eesidence— College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cj)apman* ROBERT CHAPMAN, of Duncdin, Otago, New Zealand, J.P., barrister aud solicitor, Supreme Court, retired officer of the civil service; h. 6th February, 1812; vi. 25th March, 1845, Christina, daughter of James FiNLAYsoN, of Cullos, Ross-shire, Scotland, and has had issue, I. Chakles RonEET, barrister and solicitor, h. 1847, and is vi. II. William, b. 1849, and d. leaving issue, one son and a daughter. 1(1. Robert, b. 1861, bank accountant. I. Mary, m. John Dove Dunn, of Dunedin, merchant. II. Jessie, m. John Robert Sinclair, of Dunedin, barrister and solicitor of the firm of Smith, Chapman, Sinclair, and White, barristers and solicitors, Dunedin. Mr. Chapman held since 1849 the offices of clerk to the bench, clerk of council, official administrator of intestate estates, registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, registrar of the Supreme Court, returning officer (elections), and registrar of deeds, and is now retired on a pension. He erected a monument in honour of the Rev. Dr. Burns, first Presbyterian minister at Otago at a cost of £1,000. Hincaqf. RoGEB Chapman, of tbe city of Norwich, England, m. Janet Mowat, of Stoneliaven, Scotland, and was father of Charles Chap- man, of Stonehaven, deceased, who, by Mary Sendense — Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, his wife, danghter of James Wood, of Sloue- haren, had with eleven other children, the present Robebt Chapman, of Dunedin. jHactionclL OHN ALEXANDER MACDONELL, M.D. Canada, b. 23rd May, 1844. Hintagc. of Port Arthur, Ontario, The clan Macdonalii, or McDonnell, is muloubtedly one of the most ancient in Scot- land, and can he traced hack to a period coeval with that of any family in the King- dom. The first of the race from whom any authentic accounts exists, is toJiERiKD, de- signed by Scottish historians, Thane of Argyll, but by foreign authors and charters extant, King of the Isles, and Lord of Argyll and Kintyre. Among his descendants has long been dispiited the chieftainship, and nanyand acrimonious have been the conflicts on the subject. Eeginald Mac'Donald, son of John Macdonell, Ijord of the Isles, seventh in the descent from Someuled, received from his father a vei'y large estate, as appears from a charter of confirrnation by King Robert, dated 1st January, 1373. This Reginald is stated to have been murdered by the Earl of Ross, in the Abbey of Elclio, at Pertli, while heading the men of the Isles as their lawful chieftain. He left with other issue, a son, Donalu Macdonell. of Glengarry, who was served heir to liis father in the principal part of his fortime, and became a powerful