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 476 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. berg, where he remained till 1st October, vheii he was appointed Archdeacon of Geelong. In 1852 he was given the Deanery of Melbourne and the Incumbency of St. James' parish, iu that town, and soon afterwards accepted the Aj'chdeaconry of Melbourne, which involved the oversight of all those parts of the diocese which had not a settled minister. In 1860, finding the duties of a parish minister incompatible with the Archdeaconry, he resigned St. James. In 1883 the parish of St. James was again united to the deanery, but under different arrangements. Soon after the arrival of Dr. Goe, the present Bishop of Melbourne in 1877, the Dean resigned the Archdeaconry, the duties of which he was no longer able to fulfil. He was four times Vicar- General, during the absence of the Bishops of Melbourne, viz. :— 1865-6, 1863-4, 1874-7, 1886-7. The Dean was son of the late Sie John Macaetnet, Bart., M.P., by his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Right Hon. Walter Hussey Buegh, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, M.P. for Dablin University. Lineage, Arm.s, etc. (see preceding memoir). Residence — Deanery, Melbourne, Australia. ^Santon. JOSEPH ANDERSON" PANTON,of Carranya, East St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, first metropolitan police magistrate, Melbourne, b. at Knockie- mill, parish of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 2nd June, 1831 ; m. at Inverness, 5th December, 18G0, Eleanor Margaret, dar.ghter of the late Colonel John Pulton, of the 5th Bengal Native Infantry, and has two daugliters, I. Eleanor Mary, m. April, 1890, Reginald Ceossman, and has issue, Natalie Gordon. II. Alice Julie. Mr. Panton was educated at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh LTniversity. He emigrated to the Australian colonies in December, 1850, and in May, 1852, was appointed commissioner of Crown Lands and commissioner of Gold Fields at Bendigo, and senior commissioner there in 1853, and in 1854, resident commissioner of the district now comprising the counties of Bendigo, Gunbower, Rodney, Dalhousie and Anglesey; and subsequently on the abolition of that oflBce, was appointed a police magistrate, being first stationed at Heidelberg, afterwards at Geelong, and finally at Melbourne. He h:is held the position of President of the Military Court under the Defences Act, and is Chairman of the Court of Marine Inquiry. He was President of the Bendigo Exhibition, 1854, the first Industrial Exhibition held in Australia ; a commissioner for the Melbourne Exhibition of 1854, and for the Melbourne and Paris Exhibition of 1855; executive commissioner for Melbourne Exhibition, 1880, and has been prominently associated with the Victorian Artists' Association since the establi-shment of that institution, having been president in the j'ear of the opening of the New Galleries. He is a Fellow of the Royal