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 as Senior Wrangler. He was also Fellow of his college. He was appointed to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Sydney University at its establishment in 1852, and was a member of the Water and Sewerage and the Hunter River Floods Prevention Commissions, He was also for some time actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. In 1877, in consequence of failing health, he retired from his university employments on a pension, which had been guaranteed him by the Senate. In 1878 he was elected a Fellow of the Senate in conjunction with Sir Alfred Stephen. Professor Pell, who was admitted a barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1863, and was one of the trustees of the Sydney Grammar School, died on May 7th, 1879.

Pennefather, Frederick William, B.A., LL.D., younger son of Edward Pennefather, Q.C., of Dublin, was born on April 29th, 1852, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1874, LL.M. 1877, LL.D. 1891. He entered at Lincoln's Inn in Dec. 1874, and was called to the Bar in Nov. 1877. He went the south-eastern circuit, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1878. He was private secretary to the Governor of South Australia from 1881 to 1883, and to the Governor of New Zealand from 1883 to 1886. He was one of the Commissioners for New Zealand at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886; was appointed Lecturer on Laws in the University of Adelaide in 1887, and Professor of Laws in 1890. He is the joint author of "Pennefather and Brown on the Civil Code of New Zealand."

PennPenno [sic], Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzroy Somerset Lanyon, Assistant Adjutant-General, Victorian Military Forces, was born on Sept. 29th, 1854, and entered the army in August 1873 as sub-lieutenant in the 69th Foot, of which he was also made lieutenant. In Feb. 1881 he became captain in the Welsh Regiment, and adjutant of the regiment in August 1887. In Dec. 1889 (having meantime become major) he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General of the Victorian Military Forces, with the local rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Perceval, Westby Brook, K.G.S., Agent-General for New Zealand, is eldest son of the late Westby Hawkshaw Perceval, of Rangiora, N.Z., and was born in Tasmania in 1854. He was educated at Christ College Grammar School, Christchurch, N.Z., and at Stonyhurst, and matriculated at the London University in 1875. He entered at the Middle Temple in April 1875, and was called to the English Bar in May 1878. Having returned to New Zealand, he practised as a barrister and solicitor in Christchurch, and was returned to the House of Representatives for that city at the general election in the year 1887, and again in Dec. 1890. On the meeting of Parliament in 1891, he was elected Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives, but resigned the position on his appointment as Agent-General of the colony in London in succession to Sir F. Dillon Bell. Mr. Perceval left New Zealand in Oct 1891, and assumed the duties of the position in the following month. He married in May 1880 Jessie, the youngest daughter of the late, M.L.C. (q.v.). In 1892 he was appointed to represent New Zealand on the governing body of the Imperial Institute, and Knight Commander of St. Gregory by the Pope.

Perkins, Hon. Patrick, M.L.A., J. P. second son of Thomas Perkins, a farmer in Tipperary, was born at Cashel on Oct. 14th, 1838. He emigrated to Victoria with his father and brothers, and, after a more than usually varied experience as a miner and storekeeper on the diggings, started breweries in that colony and in Queensland, where he went permanently to reside in 1876. In the same year he was returned to the Legislative Assembly for D'Aubigny, beating the late Mr. Angus Mackay, then editor of the Queenslander, by a large majority. Mr. Perkins was Minister of Lands in the first Ministry from Jan. 1879 to Nov. 1883. At the general election in May 1888 he was returned for Cambooya.

Perrin, George Samuel, F.L.S., was appointed Forester in the Woods and Forest Department of South Australia in 1880, Chief Forester at Wirrabura in 1885, Conservator of Forests in Tasmania in 1886, and Conservator of Forests in Victoria in June 1888.

Perry, Right Rev. Charles, M.A., D.D. first Church of England Bishop of Melbourne, Vict., was the third son of John Perry, of Moor Hall, Essex (an 370