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 member of the Legislative Council by the Governor, Sir, and in May 1860 he was created C.B., with an expression of Her Majesty's approbation of the services rendered by him to the Crown. Mr. Richmond was Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council from 1865 to 1881. He died in March 1887.

Ridley, Rev. William, M.A., was born at Hartford End, Essex, Sept. 14th, 1819, and educated at King's College and the University of London. He arrived in Sydney with Dr. Lang in 1850, and became a Presbyterian minister and Professor of Greek, Latin and Hebrew in the Australian College. He took pastoral charge at Portland Bay, Brisbane, and the Manning River; and subsequently devoted himself to missionary work amongst the aborigines. Returning to Sydney, he was connected with the Empire until its discontinuance; and for the last five years of his life he was chief editor of the Evening News, and a regular contributor to the Town and Country Journal. In 1877, at the request of the Presbyterian Synod, he acquired the Chinese language, in order to take charge of the Chinese Mission in Sydney. The work by which he will be principally remembered is that on the Kamilaroi and other native dialects, which was printed at the expense of the Government, and is highly esteemed by ethnologists and philologists. Mr. Ridley, who married Miss Isabella Cotter, died on Sept. 27th, 1878.

Rignold, George, the actor, is a native of Bristol, England. His mother, Patience Blaxland Rignold, was an actress, and played with Macready and Phelps. George Rignold was not originally intended for the stage. He first entered the musical profession, and played in the orchestra of a provincial theatre; but eventually he began his dramatic career at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Mr. Rignold made his most important success in Henry the Fifth; but his name is intimately connected with Lord Clancarty, Cromwell, Harold, The White Pilgrim, Caliban in The Tempest, Amos Clarke, Mephistopheles in Faust, Marc Antony in Julius Cæsar, and Bottom in The Midsummer Night's Dream. After Mr. Rignold had gained a London reputation, he went to America in 1876, and secured great popularity. From the United States he went to Australia, played a star engagement, and entered into active management with the late Mr. James Allison at Adelaide. Paying a visit to England, he played Henry the Fifth at Drury Lane, and again went to Australia, where for the last seven years he has held a leading position as an actor-manager. In Nov. 1887 Mr. Rignold opened Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney (of which he has since been lessee and manager) with Henry the Fifth. Since then he has produced, amongst other plays, Julius Cæsar, The Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, and a local version of Goethe's Faust. Mrs. George Rignold, who has now abandoned the stage, was an attractive actress, and appeared in Australia during her husband's earlier colonial career; while Mr. William Rignold, an admirable English character actor, brother of the above, has recently gone to Australia, where, in addition to his own well-known type of modern character, he has made quite a sensation by his remarkable performance of Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Rintel, Rev. Moses, was the son of the Rev. Myer Rintel, and was born at Edinburgh in 1824. He emigrated to New South Wales in 1844, and established the Sydney Hebrew Society, of which he became principal. In 1848 he occupied the office of minister to the newly established Jewish congregation in Melbourne, but resigned this charge, and was invited to assist in the formation of a new synagogue in the Victorian metropolis. In 1864, mainly through his exertions, a duly constituted Beth Din (Hebrew court of justice), the only one out of London, was established, of which he acted as chairman. In 1868 the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and its dependencies assigned to him the position of Senior Minister of the Melbourne Hebrew community. He died on May 9th, 1880.

Robe, Major-General Frederick Holt, C.B., succeeded Sir as Governor of South Australia in Oct. 1845. He was an English military man, and Tory of the old school. He is best known for his unsuccessful attempt to induce the old Legislative Council to impose a royalty on copper, and for his, for the time, successful attempt to subsidise the various religious bodies. The latter 390