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 lilKKI-rS COLONIAL GKM'KV. •14:> of the lato Stephen Lawson, of Loiighii-st, Northumboi'lanil, of the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars (slie d. 1867) ; and secondly, '25th August, 1870, Florontia, ekiei- daughter of Colonel Robert Sale, of H.M. Indian Army, and has a daughter, Evelyn Caroline. 111. Evelyn Gawler, lieutenant H.M. Indian Army, h. 1840; d. 18G4. I. A daughter, h. and d. 1835. ii. Charlotte Eyre. Captain Sturt served with his regiment during the occupation of Paris after the battle of Waterloo. He went with it to Sydney, where he was on the staft' of U.E. Sir JIalpli Darling, the Governor of New South Wales. Nothing was then known of the interior, by many supposed to be an inland sea, and Captain Sturt volunteered to lead an expedition, 20th Novem- ber, 1828, to the North-West. Passing through the marshes of the Mac- quarrie, he discovered the Darling River, journeying 1,272 miles. In 18o0, lie led a second expedition down the Murrumbidgee, discovered its junction with a large rivei', which he named the ilurray, and traced for 860 miles to its sea mouth in a small whale boat, taking only Mr. George Jlacleay (afterwards Sir George Macleay, K.C.M.G.) and six men. This daring and arduous expedition led to the colonization of Soutli Australia, and was estimated by Mr. John Arrowsmith, the eminent hydrographer, to have given 2,000 miles of water communication to Australia. In 184-1~6, Captain Sturt's ofTer to explore the central parts of the continent being accepted by the Home Government in Lord Derby's Administration, he penetrated to within 150 miles of the centre and discovered Cooper's Creek, but owing to seasons of extraordinarj- heat and drought, he was forced to retreat after enduring great suffeiings and losinw his second in command. Mr. J. Arrowsmith puts the mileage of this expedi- tion from " careful measurements " at 3,450 miles, and his previous ones at 3,000 miles. Captain Sturt published accounts of his travels, with other useful information He was accompanied on tliis last expedition by Mr. James Poole, his second in command (who died), by Mr. McDougall Stuart, draftsman, who afterwards explored and crossed the continent, and by Mr. John Harris Browne surgeon, and a distinguished colonist and landowner. In 18o8, Captain Sturfc took up his residence in the province of South Australia, of which he became surveyor-general in April, It^oD, with a seat in the executive and legislative councils. Ho was commissioner of lauds. South Australia, 1839-43 ; renistrar- general, 1843-8 ; and colonial secretary, 1848-51, when he retired on a pension granted by the colony of South Australia. He subsequently returned to England, and (/. at Cheltenham 16th June, 1869, having shortly prior to that date been nominated a K.C.M.Ci., but did not live to receive the ImiKjur ol' kniarhthood. liincaac. John Stukt, of Yiiteley, eo. Soutlwiiiiitoii, (/. circa 1617,lpaving i.ssuc. His^voungcst son, HcMPUKEV Si'CRT.ot' Vatfloj',)M. Kluabctli, daugliter of Jolm Pdckeriuoi:, of Uceklleld, CO. fioutliamptoii (she d. circa Ki.j-l), and d. virca 1G.37, Imving had i^sue, I. Humphrey, citizen and leather-solier of Loudon, m. first, Klizabcth, daugh- ter of JoHXsox, of London, and seeondly, Mrs. Spilsbchy (widow), and d. .ianuarv, l(J43-i, having Ijad issue by his first wife, 1. Peter, d. unm. 'I. George, of London, merehant, d, nil III. 3. Thi)iuas, of London, merchant. d. circa 1678, leaving two sons, the elder named C'harlfs. 1. Anne, «i. Thonnis Kli.es, citizen and haberdasher of Lr-ndon.