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 784 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. III. Frances, m. Jolm Cox, of Warrnaiu- bool, Victoria {see Cox of Clarendon). IT. Jane, b. 1825, m. Walter Lamb, of GreTstaines, SjdneT, New South Wales, and d. 1855, leaving an only child, Alice Elizabeth. V. Rebecca, I. 1826 ; )». Louis Duncan WiUTAKEK (i. 25th July, 1806), of Eichmond, New South Wales, and of Weimcr Lodge, Reading, son of Ed- ward Whitakek, D.L., of the Manor House, Brampton, co. Oxford, and d. at Keachng, 1887, having by him, who d. 24fch July, 1891, had issue, an only child, Emily Ann, m. 1870, Rev. Frederick Watson, rector of Salcot,, Essex, and afterwards rector of Great and Little Wigborough, same co., son of Rev. Christopher George Watson, rector of Melton, Sutfolk. lie d. 1886. The second son, John IIobaet Cox, of Negoa, New South Wales, J.P., h. at Hobartville, October, 1818 ; m. 1847, Eliza Georgina, eldest daughter of George Cox, of Winbourn (see ihaf fajnili/), and d. 1891, having by her, who d. 1885, had issue, I. John Wilham Geobge, the subject of this memoir. II. Charles Herbert. III. Francis A. IV. James S. V. Henry H. vi. Clement. I. Georgina Maria. II. Emily Matilda. III. Rebecca Jane. jFamt'ls of ^ipcv. Magnus Piper, of Nieustadt, in Holstein, who had emigrated from Cornwall and resided in Amsterdam, was grandfather of, I. Hugh, who was tilled by a fall from his horse in 1823. He had issue, 1. John, Captain 102nd Foot, who had issue, five sons and four daughters, of whom Andrcwina Victoria, m. 1843, Edgar Cox, eldest son of Captain William Cox, of Clarendon, N.S.W., by Anna Blacheokd, his second wife (see abate). 2. Hugh, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, commanding her Majesty's 38th Regiment in Bengal. II. John, of whom we treat. The younger son, John Piper, b. 1741, educated in BerUn, entered the Prussian service as a volunteer ; and subsequently obtained a commission as captain in the English army, was present at the battle of Minden, where he was severelj' wounded, and afterwards served in the West Indies, participating in the capture of Miirtinique. About 1769 he proceeded with the 25th Regiment to America, and being ajjpointed to the statf, remained there till 1782. He then returned to England, and retired from active service in 1788, and pur- eliased the property of Colyton, co. Devon, from Sir Jolm de la Pole, of Shute, where he resided till his death in 1802. Captain Piper m. 1770-7, Francis, widow of Captain DE WiNTON. and second daughter and co-heir of Stephen Ateault, of Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. (the only surviving representa- tive of a distinguished and once opulent Huguenot family, which emigrated from La Bochelle upon the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes), and by her, who d. at Hampstead, CO. Middlesex, 1827, he had issue, thi'ee sons and three daughters. I. John, b. 1783, C.B., late Lieutenant- Colonel of the 4th King's Own Regi- ment of Infantry, who after having served his country for a period of twenty-flve years, in Canada, Holland, Denmark, Flanders, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, France, and the West Indies, fell a sacrifice to the pernicious effects of climate in the thirty-eighth year of his age in 1821, hastened by exhaustion from the last and almost mortal wound in the neck, which he received near Bayonne in November, 1813. Besides the Cross of the Bath, Lieutenant-Colonel Piper re- ceived five other medals. He d. iinm. II. Samuel Ayrault, b. 1787, M.D., sur- geon of the 30th Regiment, m. three times, first in India, and secondly, 1823, Augusta Oldham, who d. 1868, and thirdly, Ann, widow of Captain Armstrong, and d. without issue. III. Robert Sloper, Major in the corps of Royal Engineers, b. at Colyton, co. Devon, 1st March, 1790, served in six campaigns in the Peninsula, France and Flanders, from March, 1810, to January, 1816. From 1810 to 1812, he was employed in the lines of Lis- bon and Almeida ; and from January, 1812, to the conclusion of hostilities in 1815, held the command of a division of a pontoon train. He received the thanks of Sir Rowland Hill at the passage of the Tagus. In June, 1816, he proceeded to Ceylon, served as Commanding Engineer in the Khan- diau province during the insurrection of 1817-18. Proceeded to Canada and superintended the building of the quay at Montreal, a work which lasted some forty years without requiring repairs, notwithstanding the violent impact of the ice every year. His last services were at the Cape. He m. 15th January, 1824, Mary, eldest daughter