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 (Merton College) in 1842, B.D. in 1850. In 1841 he was ordained deacon, and in 1842 priest From 1841 to 1858 he was Fellow of Merton College, and from 1843 to 1858 vicar of St. Peter's-in-the-East. In 1858 he was appointed to the newly constituted bishopric of Nelson, N.Z., and received the degree of D.D. from his University, proceeding ad eundem in the same year at Durham. In 1865 Dr. Hobhouse was obliged to resign his see because of ill-health, and, returning to England, was made assistant to the Bishop of Lichfield in 1869, which post he held till 1880. In 1874-5 he was Chancellor of the diocese of Lichfield. He retired from ill-health in 1881, and is now residing in Wells. Bishop Hobhouse married first, on Jan. 1st, 1858, Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of General the Hon. John Brodrick; secondly, on Jan. 7th, 1868, Anna, youngest daughter of Dr. Williams, Warden of New College, Oxford.

Hocken, Thomas Morland, M.R.C.S. (England), F.L.S., comes of a good Cornish stock, is the son of the Rev. J. Hocken, and was born at Stamford in 1836. Mr. Hocken, who is coroner for the colony of New Zealand, President of the New Zealand Medical Association, and President of the Otago Institute, arrived in 1862 at Dunedin, N.Z., where he is still in practice. He was married at Invercargill, in that colony, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Buckland in 1883. He has written extensively on various matters connected with the early history of New Zealand and of the Maori race, and is now preparing for the press "Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand, together with a Full Bibliography."

Hocking, Henry Hicks, B.A., B.C.L., sometime Attorney-General, Western Australia, only son of Richard Hocking, of Streatham, Surrey, was born in 1843, and educated at St.|1864 John's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 18461866 [sic] (second class mods., first class law and history); Vinerian scholar 1865. He became B.C.L. in 1867. Mr. Hocking entered at the Inner Temple on Jan. 12th, 1865, was called to the bar on Nov. 18th, 1867, and joined the Home Circuit. He was Attorney-General of Western Australia from 1872 to 1879. Acting Chief Justice of that colony from 1873 to 1874; Acting Chief Justice at Gibraltar from 1879 to 1880, when he was appointed Attorney-General of Jamaica with a seat in the Privy and Executive Councils. He married on April 1st, 1874, Elizabeth Mary, second daughter of E. A. Pittis, of Sydenham Hill, Surrey.

Hoddle, Robert, first Surveyor-General of Victoria, laid out the site of the present city of Melbourne in 1837, two years after the ground had been purchased by Batman from the aborigines. He presided as Government auctioneer at the first Government land sale on June 1st, 1837, when half-acre allotments in Melbourne fetched from £18 to £78, considered at the time a very high price. Mr. Hoddle retired on a pension in 1856, and died in 1881.

Hodges, His Honour Henry Edward Agincourt, Puisne Judge, Victoria, was admitted to the Victorian Bar in Dec. 1873. On Feb. 12th, 1889, he was appointed to the Supreme Court Bench, and presided at the trial of the notorious murderer Deeming in May 1892.

Hodgkinson, Hon. William Oswald, M.L.A., J.P., F.R.G.S., Secretary for Public Instruction, Queensland, was born at Wandsworth in 1838, and educated at Bewdley Park, Worcestershire, and Birmingham Grammar School. He went to Australia as a midshipman in the mercantile service in 1851, and remained in Australia in the position of a licence clerk at Castlemaine. In 1852 he obtained the charge of Tarnagulla goldfield, but resigned and returned to England in 1854, where he entered the War Office, London, and passed two examinations at Dean's Yard, Westminster. He returned to Victoria in 1859, and became reporter and afterwards sub-editor of the Melbourne Age, but joined the Burke and Wills exploring expedition in 1860; and was second in command of the McKinley expedition in 1861. He then settled in Queensland, where he edited several newspapers, and engaged for some time in mining. He represented the Burke district in the Legislative Assembly from 1874 to 1876. In 1875 he was appointed by the Queensland Government to head an expedition to explore the Diamentina country, and successfully accomplished that object, returning to Queensland in 1876 after an absence of sixteen months, having by his explorations on the western border of the colony, bridged the gap 235