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 418 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Official Retidenoe — Westminster Cliambers, 9, A'ietoria Street, S.W. Seal — Sophieabuvgli, Liverpool, New South Wales. Club — Whitehall, London. Bt iLa^JiUiht* FRANCIS PETER DE LABILLIERE, of Harrow-on-the Hill, co. Middlesex, England, and late of Victoria, h. in Melbonrne I3tli August, 1840, TO. at St. Saviour's, Paddington, 9th October, 1867, Adelaide, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Edward Ravenshaw, M.A., rector of West Kington, CO. Wilts, and has is.sue, I. Charles Edgar Delacottr (Rev.), B.A., Exeter College, Oxon, curate of Walcot, Bath, 6. 'iOtli August, 1869. 11. Edwai-d Gardiole Dolacour, 2nd lieutenant Indian Staff Corps, h. 10th July, 1872. in. Paul Fulcrand Delacoiir, b. 25th March, 1879. I. Blanclie Charlotte Delacour. II. Maud Hannah Delacour. III. Adeline May Delacour. Mr. F. P. de Labilliere was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, June, 1863. He was one of the earliest advocates of Imperial Federation, and was Hon. Secretary to the conference on Colonial questions in 187], and to the Imperial Federation League, the formation of which he was the first to suggest. From 1874 to 1881, as a member of the council of the Royal Colonial Institute, he assisted Sir Frederick Young in his work of Honorary Secretary to the society before it was in a position to maintain a paid staff. He was the fii'st to propose the annexation of Eastern New Guinea in a letter addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1874. Besides many papers and articles he published in 1878, his Early History of the Colony of Victoria, in two vols., and in 1894, Federal Britain, or the Unity and Federation of the Empire. Hfncage. This family is of Ilngueuot origin, and ean be traced amongst the nobility of Langaedoc, as far back as the twelfth cen- tury. It was the senior and is now the only branch represented in the male line, of Jean de la C'oite, who in 1-180 jjrored the nobililT of his ancestors, m. (wife called Noble Aurable) and d. (will dated 21th October, 15 14) leaving a son, Ande6 de la Coue, Seigneur dc la Bli- the very ancient family of " De la Cour," j Here, first so styled, m Jeanne, daughter of originally '■ de Curia" of the Cerennes. Jean de M.^KD.iJOES, Seigneur d'Aleyrac et Dalmace de la Cour, or Dalmacius de Curia ' Desplantiere, and d. (will dated 13th July, is mentioned in 1113. Guillaume de la Cour ! 1578), leaving a son, lived at tho Chateau d'Jisparon, on a com- manding eminence, near Aulas in 1264. Only one link is -wanting in the chain of pedigree between him and Bernard, with whom the unbroken line begins. GuiLTACjiE DE LA CouR, of ancient and noble lineage in the province of Languedoc (son of Bernard de la Coue, of Le Plan, near Aulas, by his wife Sauxie, and whose will is dated 2nd January, 1460), m. 23rd January, 1466, Flora Ke.il, and d. (will dated 2nd April, 1502) leaving a son, FuLCEANii DE la Coue m. 17th June, 1582, Liette de Tareox, and d. (will dated 30th March, 1637, in which he declared himself a Protestant) leaving with other issue [from one of whom Pierre, sprang a junior branch (now extinct), of Montcamp, in France], a son, Ande^ de la Cour, m. 9th January, 1611, Jeanne DE BiLAx aEs, and had (with a younger son, Pierre, Seigneur de la OardioUe ; b. 29th November, 1621, who d. a Huguenot refugee, in England), Paul, of whom presently.