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 802 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. seijttt. HON. ROBERT HODDLB DRIBERG WHITE, of Talilee, Port Stephens, New South Wales, J. P. and member of the Legislative Council of that colony, 6. at Stroud, Gloucester, New South Wales, 19th May, 1838; to. 2nd May, 1863, Eliza Jane, daughter of the Very Rev. William Macquarie Cowper, M.A., dean of Sydney, and niece of the lato Hon. Sir Charles Cowper, K.C.M.G., of Wivenhoe, Camden, New South Wales, sometime agent-general in London for New South Wales (see Cowper of Sydn/y), and has had issue, I. Robert Edward Shepherd, h. 4th Febrnnry, 1868, d. 25th December, 1886. II. Cyril Cowper, 6. 26th October, 1871. III. Alfrey Becher Stewait, 6. 4th October, 1879. I. Lily Eliza Jane, b. 9th February, 1865 ; in. 17th December, 1891, William P. Cullen, LL.D., M.A., of Sydney, barrister-at-law. II. Amy Roberta, h. 29th November, 1867. III. Lurline, b. 6th July, 1870. The Hon. R. H. D. White held the position of bank manager in the Bank of New South Wales for over twenty-three years. While in the employ of the bank at Deniliquin, the office was attacked by armed bushrangers, who bound the manager and Mr. White with ropes, and decamped with £8,000 ; but Mr. White following them single-handed on horseback, and armed with a gun, eventually overtook them, and recovered some thousand.s of the stolen money. On a second occasion Mr. White was attacked by bushrangers, when, on the 19th April, 1868, at Currie's Hotel, on the Gyuipie Road, Queensland, he defended himself, single-handed, against five armed men. For this he received a testimonial and a present from the Government, and presents from the Bank of New South Wales, and the townspeople of Rockhampton. Mr. White is a retired captain in the Queensland Volunteer Forces, and a justice of the peace for the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria (central bailiwick), and Queensland. He was appointed a commissioner to the Exhibition in Melbourne, 1880-1, and to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, held in London 1886 ; was formerly member of the Legislative Assembly of Nevf South Wales for Gloucester, and was called to a seat in the Upper House on the .30th December, 1887. Hincngc. Abeaham White, surgeon in H.M. 44th Eegiment, stationed in Ceylon : m. 1806, Eliza Theodora, daughter of Colonel Baron Ton Dbieero (who was residing at JaS- napatam, Cevlon, in the Dutch service, before the British took possession of that island), by Susan Tabkee, his wife, and d. in 1818, leaving issue, I. William George, b. 1807, lieutenant and Adjutant H.M. 4Ith Regiment, was killed at the Kyber Pass, 12th January, 1842, during the reti-eat of the British from Cabul. ir. .James Chrles, of whom presently. III. George AYdliam, d. in New Zealand, 1892. IV. Charles Peter, eoUeetor of Mymey- sing, Bengal, killed by a wounded buffalo, while tiger hunting, in 1840. V. Ahraliam Bennett, killed by the Maoris during the iVew Zealand war in 1867.