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 for Salisbury from 1865 to 1869. Mr. Hamilton resided in New South Wales from 1839 to 1855. In 1844 he married Ann Catherine, second daughter of John Thacker, of the Sydney firm of Thacker, Daniel & Co. On Jan. 20th, 1863, Mr. Hamilton was appointed parliamentary agent in England for the colony of New South Wales. Mr. Hamilton, on his return to England, took up his residence at Charteris, Sunninghill, Yorks, of which county he is J. P. and D.L.

Hamilton, George, arrived in Adelaide, S.A., on Oct. 1st, 1829, with cattle from Port Phillip (now Victoria), and in 1848 was appointed second clerk in the Colonial Treasury, afterwards undertaking the management of the Bullion Office. In 1853 he entered the police force, and was appointed Commissioner in 1867. This post he held till 1882, when he retired. He was the originator of the Adelaide Club, and died on August 3rd, 1883.

Hamilton, Sir Robert George Crookshank, K.C.B., M.A., LL.D., Governor of Tasmania, is a son of the late Rev. Zachary Macaulay Hamilton, D.D., minister of Bressay, Shetland, N.B., and grandson of Rev. Gavin Hamilton, of Hoy, Orkney, and Helen (Macaulay), his wife, aunt of Lord Macaulay. He was born in Shetland in 1836, and educated at Aberdeen University, where he graduated M.A. in 1857, receiving the LL.D. degree in 1885. He entered the Civil Service as a temporary clerk in the War Office in 1855, and the same year was attached to the Commissariat Department in the Crimea. On his return, in 1857, he was employed in the Office of Works, and subsequently in the Education Department, where he was accountant from 1861 to 1869. He was accountant to the Board of Trade from 1869 to 1872, assistant secretary from 1872 to 1878, secretary to the Civil Service Inquiry Commission from 1874 to 1875, and accountant-general of the Navy from 1878 to 1882. In May of the latter year Lord North brook appointed him Under-Secretary to the Admiralty; but he had scarcely entered upon his duties, when he was called on to take the place of the murdered Mr. Burke, as Acting Under-Secretary for Ireland, which position he retained until April 1883, when he was made Under-Secretary, retaining the position till Nov. 1886, when he was appointed Governor of Tasmania. Sir Robert Hamilton, who was made K.C.B. in 1884, had, as a result of his official experiences, become a convert to Home Rule, and it was felt to be an anomaly that he should continue in office under a Unionist Administration. Hence his transfer to the Colonial Service. Sir Robert at different times took a leading part in the reorganisation of various departments of the English Civil Service, and in 1879 served on the Royal Commission to inquire into the condition of colonial defences. He married first, in 1863, Caroline, daughter of Frederick A. Geary (who died in 1875); and secondly, in 1877, Teresa Felicia, daughter of Major Reynolds, 57th Regiment, who long resided at Hobartville, Richmond, N.S.W. He was appointed Governor of Tasmania in Dec. 1886, and entered on the duties of his office in March 1887. Sir Robert was one of the patrons of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888.

Hamilton, Rev. R., M.A., D.D., arrived in Victoria from Scotland in 1851, and almost immediately took up the pastorate of the Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, which position he held until 1883, when he retired from active ministry. Dr. Hamilton was well known as an advocate of the Second Advent doctrine, upon which subject he wrote and published several books, but he was best known amongst Presbyterians for his "History of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria," and for this he received the degree of D.D. The welfare of the aborigines occupied a prominent place in his thoughts, and many years ago he selected a tract of land at Healesville which he dedicated to their benefit. He died in 1891, at the age of seventy-eight.

Hamley, Major-General Francis Gilbert, eldest son of the late Joseph Hamley, was born in 1815, and entered the army as ensign 12th Foot in 1835. He was senior officer in command of the Imperial troops in the colony of South Australia on the death of Governor Sir Dominic Daly, on Feb. 19th, 1868. The next day he was sworn in as Administrator of the Government of the Colony, and remained Chief of the Executive till the arrival of on Feb. 15th, 1869. He was then only lieut.-colonel. General Hamley died in 212