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 is remarkable, three other former members of the Age staff took portfolios, viz., Messrs. Deakin, Dow, and Pearson. In 1883 Dr. Quick published a "History of Land Tenure in Victoria." At the general election in 1886 he was re-elected for Sandhurst, but was defeated in 1889, and has not since re-entered Parliament nor taken much part in politics.

Quinn, Right Rev. James, D.D., first Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane, was a brother of the late Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, New South Wales, and was born at Athy, co. Kildare, in 1820. He was educated in Ireland and at the Jesuits' College at Rome. He was ordained priest in 1843, and was engaged in educational work in Dublin. In June 1859, when the see of Brisbane was created, he was appointed the first bishop, but did not arrive in Queensland till 1861. He died on August 30th, 1881 aged sixty-two, having done a good deal to moderate the acerbity of Irish factions feeling during his episcopate.

Quinn, Right Rev. Matthew, D.D., first Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathhurst N.S.W., the brother of the Right Rev. James Quinn, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane, was born in co. Kildare on May 29th, 1821. He pursued his studies in Rome at the Propaganda and Irish Colleges from 1837 to 1847. He was ordained priest in May 1845 at St. John's Lateran, and, being transferred to Ireland, took great interest in the promotion of Irish emigration to Queensland. He was consecrated first Bishop of Bathurst by Cardinal Cullen in Dublin in Nov. 1865, and died on Jan. 16th, 1884.

Radford, Henry Wyat, son of Henry Wyat Radford, surgeon of her Majesty's 62nd Regiment, and Frances Maria (Biddulph) his wife, was born at Newcastle, N.S.W., on Oct. 19th, 1835. In 1859 he went to Queensland, and was engaged in pastoral pursuits on the Fitzroy river, being at one time part proprietor of Princhester Station. He entered the Queensland Parliamentary Service in April 1862, and was clerk-assistant of the Legislative Assembly until June 1881, when he was appointed clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of the Parliaments. Mr. Radford was married at Newcastle on Oct. 24th, 1864, to Miss Lydia Amelia Sloan.

Rae, John, M.A., J.P., was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, on Jan. 9th, 1813, and educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College. Having commenced the study of the law, he graduated M.A. at Aberdeen University in 1832, and subsequently attended law classes in Edinburgh, gaining a prize of £20 in 1837 for a literary essay. In Dec. 1839 he arrived in Sydney, having accepted the post of secretary and accountant to the North British Australasian Loan and Investment Company. In 1842 he wrote the letterpress for "Sydney Illustrated," and in July 1843 was appointed Town Clerk of Sydney. Ten years later he published a version of Isaiah in blank verse, with explanatory notes. In Jan. 1854, on the abolition of the Sydney Corporation, Mr. Rae was appointed one of the City Commissioners, and retained that position till the Corporation was re. established in April 1857. In November of that year he became secretary to the New South Wales Railway Department, and in Jan. 1861 was appointed Under-Secretary for Works, with the additional position of Commissioner of Railways. In 1877 the office of Commissioner of Railways was separated from that of Under-Secretary of Works, in which latter post Mr. Rae remained until March 1888. Mr. Rae (who in 1875 published "Gleanings from my Scrapbook") married, in 1845, Miss Elizabeth Thompson, who died in Dec. 1877. Mr. Rae is now a member of the Civil Service Board, constituted under the Civil Service Act of 1884.

Raff, George, a native of Scotland, was elected to the first Legislative Assembly of Queensland, as one of the three members for the Metropolitan constituency of Brisbane, and took part in the Herbert and Macalister Ministries as a member of the Executive Council without portfolio from July to Nov. 1866. 382