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 policy was contrary to the principles on which the colony was founded, and was repealed in 1851, so soon as the elective element was introduced into the Legislative Council. General Robe was recalled in August 1848, and he returned to England, where he died on April 4th, 1872.

Roberts, Col. Charles Fyshe, C.M.G., Under-Secretary Defence, New South Wales, son of the late Capt. Charles Roberts, of the 59th Regiment, was born in 1837, and educated at Carshalton Military School and the Royal Academy, Woolwich. He entered the Royal Artillery in 1855, became captain in 1862 and major in 1863. He served in the Crimean campaign in 1855-6, during which he was twice wounded, and received a medal with clasp, the Turkish medal, and the Sardinian order of Military Valour, and and was personally commended for his conduct on June 18th, 1855, by Lord Raglan. He was in command of the artillery with the field force in Sikkim, in 1861, for which he was thanked in general orders, and by the Governor-General of India in Council, and was made captain and subsequently brevet-major. He was aide-de-camp to Sir John Young when Governor of New South Wales from 1866 to 1867. Colonel Roberts retired from the Royal Artillery in 1871, and was secretary to the Agent-General for New South Wales from 1872 to 1874. He was appointed Colonel in command of the New South Wales artillery in 1876, and second in command of the forces, being created C.M.G. in June 1885. Colonel Roberts married in 1866 Alice, daughter of the late William Bradley, of Goulburn, N.S.W. In 1890 he visited England, and was commissioned by the New South Wales Government to inquire into all military matters likely to be suggestive of improvements in the colonial forces. In 1892, when it was decided to establish a separate department of defence under the Colonial Secretary, Col. Roberts was appointed the first Under-Secretary.

Roberts, Charles James, C.M.G., eldest son of Charles Warman Roberts, of Sydney, N.S.W., was born on March 29th, 1846, and educated at the Sydney Grammar School. He was Mayor of Sydney in 1879, the year of the International Exhibition, for which he was a member of the New South Wales Commission, as also of the Commissions for the exhibitions held in Melbourne in 1880, Amsterdam in 1883, Calcutta in 1883-4, South Kensington (Colonial and Indian) in 1886, and Centennial in 1888. He was member for the Hastings and Manning district from 1882 to 1889, and was Postmaster-General in the Ministry from Jan. 1887 to Jan. 1889. He married in 1867 Lucretia, daughter of the late Abraham Abraham, of Sydney.

Roberts, Hon. Daniel Foley, M.L.C., formerly Chairman of the Legislative Council, Queensland, was one of the first members nominated to the Legislative Council of Queensland, and was Chairman of Committees of that body from its inception in May 1860 till his death on July 26th, 1889.

Roberts, John, C.M.G., is the son of the late George Roberts, of Selkirk, Scotland, who was for many years provost of that town. He was born in 1845 and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at the Queen Street Institution in that city. In 1868 he went to New Zealand, and was President of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce in 1887 and of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held at Dunedin in 1889-90, in which latter year he was Mayor of Dunedin. Mr. Roberts married in 1870 Louisa Jane, daughter of the late Charles Henry Keale, of Dunedin. He was created C.M.G. in 1891.

Robertson, Hon. Sir John, K.C.M.G., is of Scotch extraction, and was born at Bow, Essex, on Oct 15th, 1816. His father emigrated to New South Wales with his family in 1820, and the future Premier was educated under Dr. Lang and Messrs. Gilchrist and Cape. Mr. Robertson, sen., went into grazing on the Hunter river, and thither the family removed in 1835. In the meantime the subject of this notice had revisited England, working his passage home as one of the crew of the ship Sovereign. After two years' experience of the sea, during which he visited some of the principal ports of Europe, Brazil and South America, he returned to Sydney, and was engaged in pastoral and farming pursuits in the northern districts of the colony for a number of years. Though on various occasions he made himself prominent as the champion of the interests of his 391