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Rh III. Sarah Rebecaa, b. 29th July, 1516; m. Richard WHALEY, of Whaley Abbey, co. Wicklow, Ireland, and has issue two daughters.

Arms—Barry of ten arg, and az, a lion ramp. gu. holding between the paws an engle's head erased or; two flaunches sa., cach charged with a mullet of six points of the fourth.

Crest—In front of a mount vert a mullet of six points or thereon an eagle close ppr.

Motto—Confide recte agens.

Residences—land Laurel Lodge, Toowong, Brisbane; and Beachwood, Humpy bong, Queensland.

Heath.

OMMANDER GEORGE POYNTER HEATH, R.N., of Hanworth, Brisbane, Queensland, formerly chairman of the marine board and port master of Queensland, b. at Hanworth, co. Norfolk, 19th June, 1830; m. at Trinity Church, Bayswater, London, 23rd February, 1860, Elizabeth Jane Long, eldest daughter of Captain Joseph Long, of the 39th Regiment, and sister of the Hon. Sir Joseph George Long Innes, Kun., puisue judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (see Innes of Sydney), and by her, who d. 19th January, 1893, has had issue,

I. George Reginald Innes, b. 23rd July, 1866.

II. Charles Edward Innes, b. 23rd July, 1866; d. 23rd July, 1867.

I. Herbert Charles Selwyn, Lieutenant Essex Regiment, b. 2nd October, 1869.

I. Celia Georgiana, m. April, 1836, John Locke Marx, Commander R.N., younger son of the late Francis J. P. Marx, of Arlebury, Hants.

II. Ethel Mary, m. 23rd February, 1893, John Garnet Armstrong, Lieutenant R.N., second son of the late Deputy Surgeon General Armstrong.

III. Isabel Clara.

IV. Beatrice Gertrude.

V. Evelyn Elizabeth Lester.

VI. Vivien Alice Marie.

Commander Heath was educated at Cheltenham College; entered the navy as a cadet in 1815; was employed on the survey of the north-east coasts of Australia and New Guinea, under the late Captain Owen Stanley, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., of H.M.S." Rattlesnake," 1846-53, and served afterwards on H M.S. "Fantome" and "Calliope" on that station. on that station. He retired as a commander in 1869; and was appointed chairman of the marine board and port master of Queensland, from which posts he retired on a pension in July, 1890, after thirty years' service in that colony. During that period he established thirty-five lighthouses on the coast of Queensland, besides some 150 smaller lights, marking the reefs and dangers in the Inner Route and Torres Straits, and opened the route for the steam mail service and general traffic. He was also for many years chairman of Committees of Synod of the Church of England in Queensland.

This family migrated westwards to Exeter, and was settled there for some generations.

Thomas Heath was made a freeman of the city of Exeter in 1655, and was warden to the Corporation of Weavers 1678-80. His fourth son, Rh