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 He was educated at Eton, and passed at Sandhurst in 1879, but did not enter the army. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father in April 1873, and was Junior Whip of the Conservative party in the House of Lords from 1883 to 1886, lord-in-waiting to the Queen from 1885 to 1889, and was Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland in 1887, 1888, and 1889. Lord Hopetoun was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1889, in succession to Sir Henry Loch, and was created G.C.M.G. in the same year. He assumed office on Nov. 28th, 1889. Lord Hopetoun married on Oct. 18th, 1886, the Hon. Hersey Alice Eveleigh de Moleyns, daughter of the fourth Lord Ventry.

Horne, Richard Henry, or Hengist, as he preferred to be called, was born on Jan. 1st, 1803, was educated at Sandhurst, and entered the Mexican navy as a midshipman. He was present at the bombardment of Vera Cruz, the capture of the fortress of San Juan, Ullva, and followed the fortunes of the Mexican-Spanish war to its close. He next went to the United States, visiting several Indian encampments, and experiencing many adventures. Returning to England, he devoted himself to literature. Among his published works are "The Spirit of Peers and People," "The Death of Marlowe," "Cosmo de Medici," "Gregory VII.," dramas on the Elizabethan model, and "Orion," the poem by which he is mainly known. This latter work, an epic poem, was originally published at a farthing, partly with the view of obtaining a wide circulation for the first three editions of the work, of which no one was allowed to buy more than one copy. In 1846 Mr. Horne published "Ballads and Romances." He was also a prolific prose-writer, and edited and partly wrote "Spirits of the Age," which comprises accounts of some of the leading characters of the day. To this work Mrs. Barrett Browning was a contributor. Mr. Horne left England in 1852 for Victoria with William Howitt, and for some time commanded the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne. He also became one of the champion swimmers of Australia, and it is stated that he once swam bound hand and foot. He held various positions in the Victorian Civil Service. He was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Sewers and Water Supply, which planned and constructed the reservoir at Yan Yean, nineteen miles from Melbourne, whence the city still draws its water supply. At a déjeuner given when the Yan Yean works were in a forward state, he made an elaborate speech, and subsequently recorded these and other of his colonial experiences in a work entitled "Australian Facts and Prospects," published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1859. Mr. Horne returned to England in 1869, and was awarded a civil list pension of £100 per annum in 1874. In 1877 he collected and published the letters addressed to him by Mrs. Barrett Browning, and this is the only correspondence of Mrs. Browning's that has been given to the public. Mr. Horne died at Margate on March 13th, 1884.

Horne, Hon. Thomas, formerly Puisne Judge, Tasmania, entered at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1827. Having emigrated to Tasmania, he was called to the Bar of that colony Feb. 22nd, 1830. He was honorary secretary of the political association formed in 1835 at Hobart Town, to obtain a redress of the grievances under which the colonists laboured, especially in regard to the employment of convicts as constables, and the substitution of military for common juries. Having been for some time previously Attorney-General, he was appointed a Puisne Judge in 1848, on the removal of Judge Montagu for misbehaviour in office. Whilst still on the bench, he was elected to the Legislative Council, on the concession of responsible government in 1856, for the district of Hobart, and was chosen president of that body, a position which he held from Dec. 1856 to Sept. 1859. In the following year he resigned the judgeship, retiring on a pension, and was in the following year returned to the second Parliament of Tasmania as a member of the House of Assembly. He died at Hobart on Sept. 23rd, 1870, aged 70.

Hoskins, Hon. James, M.L.C., was born in London in 1823, and emigrated to Australia in 1853. After a varied experience on the diggings, he was elected in 1859 to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales for the Northern Goldfields. In 1872 he was returned for Patrick's Plains, and in 1874 for the Tumut. Mr. Hoskins was Secretary for Public Works in the Parkes Government from March 239