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 128 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 aix. AUG. is, 1021. The Colombo Observer and The Examiner were the two other English newspapers of the time published at Colombo. PENRY LEWIS. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may he sent to them direct. JAMES McGiLL, FOUNDER or the McGiLL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL. It is stated that James McGill, founder of the McGill Univer- sity, Montreal, was born in Glasgow, Scot- land, on Oct. 6, 1744. He matriculated into Glasgow University m 1756. The year of his coming to Canada is unknown. It is probable that he went to the New England >tates before the American Revolution, and mation is also desired as to his connexion, if any, with the United States, as well as his early life in Canada. The author, Professor Cyrus Macmillan, McGill University, Mon- treal, Canada, or the undersigned, will be most grateful for such information. JOHN LANE. The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, London. THE KING AS PREBENDARY OF ST. DAVID'S. Will some one be good enough to tell how it is that H.M. the King is a Preben- dary of St. David's Cathedral ? What king was the first to hold this office, and has any king ever been actually installed ? Are there any duties attached to it ? Has the disestablishment of the Church in Wales made any difference to this custom ? H. P. HART. The Vicarage, Ixworth, B u ry St. Edmunds. FATHER MARIANUS. In his little book, _ _ Zwei Klostergeschichten des vorigen Jahr- thaThe7ameYo^ (Leipzig, 1858), Stephan Gaet- broke out. He became a fur-trader and | schenlerger 'deals with the life of Graf amassed considerable wealth. He was | James Gordon, oder Patei ' Marianus _ of elected to represent one of the electoral Wurzburg (born at Banff 1704 ; died 1734). divisions of Montreal in the Legislative j The British Museum catalogue, following Assembly, and subsequently he was made ! the prefixed 'Graf," enters him as James a member of the Provincial Cabinet in Lower Earl of Huntly-though no Earl of Himtly Canada. He was too old for active service ; was ever called James. Fischer ( Scots Germany,' p. 303), following Wieland, enters him as " Mar. Gordon," a monk at Wiirz- he volunteered to fight in the war of 1812. In 1811 he made his will, in which he left his real estate and 10,000 to found a college to ! burg in 1719. Can any Catholic ecq> be known as McGill College, " in which the youth of Canada might be instructed in religious and moral truths, and in the arts and sciences." The college was to be estab- lished within ten years of the making of the will. He died on Dec. 19, 1813, in Montreal, and was buried in Montreal. In 1821 McGill College was founded. me more about him ? J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. A HINDUSTANI GRAMMAR. In 1898 the late Sir Monier Monier-Williams informed me that Adam Lindsay Gordon's father, Adam Durnford Gordon, compiled a " very elementary grammar for the use of the boys at Cheltenham College," where he became James McGill was brought up a Scotch j professor of Oriental languages in 1846. The Presbyterian ; in Canada he attended St. British Museum has an Gabriel Presbyterian Church, and also the Anglican Church. He married a French- Canadian Roman Catholic wife, Madame Desrivieres, the widow of a French-Canadian gentleman. It is highly probable that obituary notices appeared in some of the Scottish and Canadian newspapers at the time of his death, all of which are now doubtless defunct, or at any rate very difficult to consult. In view of a Life of James McGill, now hi preparation, I am particularly interested as to his birth and ancestry, and further infor- the Hindoostanee Grammar adapted to the use of students in the Presidency of Madras,' published in Madras in 1842, a second edition being issued in 1851. Was this by Adam Durnford Gordon ? J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. A TRANSLATION OF KHAFI KHAN. The British Museum has two copies (Add. MSS. 26617-26619) of a translation by Captain Gordon (dated Nagpur, ApriL 1821) of part of Khafi Khan's ' History of the Mogul Empire.'