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 editions. He died at Lago Maggiore, Italy, on April 7th, 1879, aged 76.

Noel, Arthur Baptist, District Court Judge, Queensland, eldest son of the late Judge (q.v.) by Margaret, daughter of John McKenzie, of Tain, Scotland, was born in 1855, entered at the Inner Temple in Oct. 1873, and was called to the bar in Jan. 1877. Having gone to Queensland in Jan. 1881 to practise his profession, he was appointed a Judge of the Northern District Court of that colony in Jan. 1883. His Honour married on Sept. 25th, 1879, Henrietta Augusta McDonald, daughter of Henry and Ann O'Hara.

Noel, Wriothesley Baptist, sometime Judge of the Court of Insolvency, Victoria, was the eldest son of the Rev. Baptist Wriothesley Noel, tenth son of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, Bart., by Jane, eldest daughter of Peter Baillie, of Dochfour. He was born on August 15th, 1827, at Walthamstow, Essex, and entered at Trinity College, Cambridge; but left the university without taking a degree, owing to being incapacitated for study by an accident. He entered at the Middle Temple in Nov. 1847, and was called to the bar in Nov. 1850. In Nov. 1852 he landed in Melbourne, and was appointed police magistrate at Kilmore, Victoria. In Jan. 1855 he was removed to Melbourne as police magistrate for the county of Bourke; and later in the year he was appointed Crown Prosecutor, becoming Deputy-Chairman of General Sessions in July 1857. Two years later he was appointed Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates, and in Feb. 1871 Judge of the Court of Insolvency under the new statute. He married, in 1858, at the John Knox Church, Melbourne, Margaret, daughter of John McKenzie, of Tain, Scotland, who died on June 6th, 1869. Judge Noel died on May 19th, 1886.

Norman, General Sir Henry Wylie, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., C.I.B., Governor of Queensland, is the son of the late James Norman, and was born in Dec. 1826. He joined the Bengal Army in 1844; served as adjutant to the 31st Native Infantry throughout the Punjab campaign in 1848-9, including the passage of the Chenab, action of Sadoolapore, battles of Chilianwalla and Goojerat and pursuit of the Sikhs and Afghans. As brigade-major or assistant adjutant-general he was engaged in numerous affairs and expeditions on the Peshawar frontier in the years 1850-54; in 1855 in the Sonthal campaign in command of a detachment; in the mutiny campaigns of 1857-9 as assistant adjutant-general or deputy adjutant-general, and the greater part of the time as adjutant-general to the army in the field; served throughout the siege of Delhi; in all the actions under Greathed and Grant from Delhi to Lucknow; relief of Lucknow; operations at Cawnpore; action at Khodagunge and reoccupation of Futtehghur; siege and capture of Lucknow in March 1858; campaign in Rohilcund (wounded at the action of Bareilly); campaign in Oude, cold season of 1858-9, including several actions. In 1860 he was appointed assistant military secretary at the Horse Guards; in 1862 military secretary to the Government of India; in 1870 member of the Viceroy's Council, and in 1878 member of the Council of India in London; A.D.C. to the Queen from 1863 to 1869; in 1883 Governor of Jamaica; in 1889 Governor of Queensland, in succession to Sir Henry Blake, who resigned his appointment shortly after accepting it, owing to the dissatisfaction expressed thereat in Queensland. In 1890 Sir Henry Norman visited Northern Queensland, and reported home that in his opinion the majority of the people were in favour of separation from Southern Queensland. Later in the year he visited England on leave. Sir Henry, who became major-general in 1869, lieut.-general in 1877, and general in 1882, was created C.B. in 1859, K.C.B. in 1873, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. in 1887, and C.I.E. in 1878. He married first, in 1853, Selina Eliza, daughter of Dr. A. Davidson, Inspector-General of Hospitals; secondly, Minnie, daughter of T. Knowles, and widow of Captain A. R. Temple, who died in 1865; and, thirdly, Alice Claudine, daughter of Teignmouth Sandys, of the Bengal Civil Service.

Normanby, The Most Noble George Augustus Constantine Phipps, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Marquess of, sometime Governor of Queensland, New Zealand, and Victoria, was the son of the first marquess, and was born on July 23rd, 1819. He entered the Coldstream Guards as ensign, and became lieutenant in 1838. In August, 1844, he married Laura, daughter 346