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 of Yorkshire by a majority of one over Mr. Christopher Sykes. He was, however, unseated on a scrutiny, but was returned for the St. Austell division of Cornwall at the bye-election in May 1887. Mr. McArthur was one of the Commissioners for New South Wales for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886, and is a director of the Bank of Australasia. He married in 1890 Florence Creemer, daughter of J. Creemer Clarke, formerly M.P. for Abingdon.

Macartney, Very Rev. Hussey Burgh, D.D., Dean of Melbourne, is the son of the late Sir John Macartney, Bart., member of the Irish House of Commons, by Catherine, daughter of the Right Hon. Walter Hussey Burgh, Lord Chief Baron, who long represented the University of Dublin in Parliament. The Dean was born in Dublin on April 10th, 1799, and educated at Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1821, M.A. in 18—, and D.D. in 1847. In 1822 he was ordained to the curacy of Banagher, in the diocese of Meath, and received priest's orders in 1823. He was subsequently for twelve years incumbent of Creagh, in the county of Cork, and in March 1833 he married Jane, daughter of Edward Hardman. He in 1847 accompanied Dr., first Bishop of Melbourne, to Australia. They sailed in the ship Stag from Spithead on Oct. 6th of that year, and for about seven months after his arrival Dr. Macartney officiated in Heidelberg and the surrounding district. In Oct. 1848 he was appointed Archdeacon of Geelong. In Jan. 1852 be became Dean of Melbourne, with the incumbency of St. James' parish attached, and was subsequently appointed Archdeacon of Melbourne. In 1862 he resigned St. James', which in 1883 was again united to the Deanery under altered conditions. From Nov. 1864 to August 1866 the Dean was absent on a visit to Ireland. During the episcopate of Dr. Perry he was three times Vicar-General of the diocese during the Bishop's absence in England—viz. in 1855 to 1856, 1863 to 1864, and in 1874 until the arrival of Bishop, in 1877. He also administered the diocese on the latter's departure until the arrival of Bishop. In 1885 Mrs. Macartney died, and in the following year he resigned the Archdeaconry. Despite his ninety-three years, forty-four of which had been passed in Victoria, Dean Macartney took a prominent part in the consecration of St. Paul's Cathedral. He was made honorary M.A, of Melbourne University in 1854.

Macartney, Sir John, Bart., son of Rev. Sir William Isaac Macartney, on whose death in 1867 he succeeded as 3rd baronet, was born in 1832, and resides at Jolimont, Mackay, Qd. He married in 1865 Catherine, daughter of the late Alexander Miller of Merindindi, Vict. Sir John is a nephew of the Very Rev., D.D., Dean of Melbourne.

MacBain, Hon. Sir James, M.L.C., K.C.M.G., is the youngest son of the late Smith MacBain, of Invergordon, Ross-shire, and was born at KinrhivesKinrhive [sic] in that county in 1828. Having served a business apprenticeship in Inverness, he married in 1853 Jessie, youngest daughter of the late William Smith, of Forres, and sister of the late Duncan Smith, manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation at Bombay. Immediately afterwards he came to Melbourne, where he entered the service of the Bank of New South Wales, which, however, he shortly quitted, and became partner in Melbourne of the mercantile and squatting agency firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. In 1863 he became a partner in the Geelong and London business of that firm, and of Richard Gibbs & Co., of London. In 1865 the business of the former was sold to the Australian Mortgage, Land and Finance Company, Limited, of the Australian Board of which Sir James is chairman. Sir James is a member of the Council, and a trustee of both the Ormond College, affiliated to Melbourne University, and of the Working Men's College, Melbourne. He is also a trustee of the Scotch College and the Ladies' Presbyterian College, and of the Public Library and National Gallery in that city. Sir James represented the Wimmera district in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria from 1864 to 1880, and in the latter year was elected to the Legislative Council for the Central province. He was a member of the Government without portfolio from August 1881 to March 1883, in which year he visited Europe and acted as chairman of the Victorian Commission at the Amsterdam  288