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 of his lordship’s six daughters. His lordship’s two sons, it is also supposed, will enjoy £20,000 each besides the Chelsea estate.]

As to page 243. In correction of my mistakes, I here note that Mrs Aufrère, who died in 1850, was the mother of George Anthony Aufrère, Esq. The date of this gentleman’s birth was 1794, and his wife, I rejoice to hear, is alive. Mrs Barclay, sister of Mr Aufrère, died 13th February 1868, and her husband, George Barclay, Esq., in 1869.

Page 243. The family of Boileau has the most magnificent pedigree of any of the refugee families. Etienne Boileau, Grand Prevost of Paris in 1258, is a historical personage; and the pedigree traced up to him is without a flaw or gap. The family was ennobled in 1371. [I regret that this date is misprinted 1731 in my second vol.]

There is a lithographed genealogy of the family of Boileau of Castelnau by Mrs Innes. This lady, née Jane Alicia M‘Leod, is a daughter of General Duncan M‘Leod, by Henrietta Caroline Lestock Friell, daughter of Peter Friell and Anne Charlotte Boileau, and grand-daughter of Simeon Boileau and Magdalen Desbrisay. Mrs Innes’s brother, the late Sir Donald Friell M‘Leod, K.S.I, and C.B., whose lamented death occurred on November 28th 1872, was “one of the most experienced and highly esteemed Indian statesman of the day;” born in 1810, educated at the High School of Edinburgh, and at Haileybury College. At Haileybury he took high honours in the native languages, mathematics, and drawing. During the first three years of his career in India he was employed at Monghyr, in the province of Bengal; then for twelve years in the Saugor and Nerbudda territories. For a short time he assisted the late Colonel Sleeman in the suppression of murders by Thugs and Dacoits; and for six years filled the office of Magistrate of Benares. He gained a high reputation by the happy influence he exercised over all classes of the people, and the manner in which he secured their co-operation in matters of local improvement and the repression of crime. His success as Magistrate of Benares led to his promotion, in 1849, to the important post of commissioner of the territory then recently acquired from the Sikhs, and known as the Trans-Sutlej States. There his rare powers of conciliation had ample scope in smoothing the difficulties and allaying the animosities incidental to the successive domination of Sikhs over Rajpoots, and Englishmen over Sikhs. In 1854 he became Financial Commissioner of the Punjaub, and during the crisis of 1857 was, with Sir Robert Montgomery, one of the trusted councillors of Sir John Lawrence, who has borne testimony to the value of his services and his serene and resolute bearing in that trying time. In 1865 he was, on the recommendation of Sir John Lawrence, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjaub, and shortly afterwards received the honour of Knight Commander of the Star of India, the Companionship of the Bath having been granted him in recognition of his services in 1857. After holding office five years and a half as Lieutenant-Governor, he handed over the government to the late Sir Henry Durand, and returned to England from a service of upwards of forty years, during the whole of which period he visited England once only. — (Illustrated London News.)

Page 244. From a refugee gentleman of singular worth have sprung the families of Bosanquet of Dingestow, and Bosanquet of Broxbournebury, and other branches.

Page 245. The family of Chamier springs by female descent from the illustrious Daniel Chamier, their male ancestor in the last century being John Des Champs, Esc]., the heir of his accomplished uncle, Anthony Chamier, Esq., M.P., Under Secretary of State, whose name he assumed.

Page 246. The Courtauld family has its origin fully detailed in Chapter XIV. [Colonel Chester has carried the pedigree back to another generation. The father of the refugee was the first of the family who settled in the Island of Oleron. Peter Courtauld, of St Peter, Isle