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 his legal education eminently qualified him. After the defeat of the Grey Government in 1879, Mr. Sheehan continued an active member of the Opposition down to the time of his death, on June 13th, 1885.

Sheil, Right Rev. Lawrence Bonaventure, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, was born at Wexford, Ireland, on Dec. 24th, 1815, and educated at the Franciscan Schools at Enniscorthy and at Rome. In 1837 he was elected simultaneously to the chairs of Theology and Philosophy at St. Isidore's Franciscan Convent in Rome, and undertook the duties of the latter. Two years later he returned to Ireland, where he became head of the Franciscan Order. In 1852 he accompanied the late Archbishop to Melbourne, where he was for some years President of St. Patrick's College, and was appointed Archdeacon of Ballarat in 1859. In 1866 he succeeded the late Dr. as second Bishop of Adelaide. He attended the Vatican Council which decreed the infallibility of the Pope, and died on March 1st, 1872. Bishop Sheil contributed greatly, during his episcopate, to the development of the Roman Catholic Church in South Australia.

Shelton, Edward M., was born in Huntingdonshire in 1846, and went as a child to the United States, where he graduated at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1871, and subsequently studied at the Illinois Industrial University. He afterwards superintended the establishment of the Government farm at TokioTokyo [sic], Japan, but returned to America and joined the Greeley Colony in Colorado. He afterwards revisited Michigan College; and in 1874 became Farm Superintendent and Professor of Agriculture at the Kansas College, but in 1889 became Instructor in Agriculture under the Queensland Government.

Shenton, Hon. George, M.L.C., Chief Secretary, Western Australia, is the eldest son of the late George Shenton, of Perth, W.A., where he was born on May 18th, 1842. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and returning to Western Australia, represented Toodyay in the old Legislative Council, and was a member of the Finance Committee of that body in 1890. He was eleven times mayor of Perth, and is a governor of the High School. In Dec. 1890 he accepted office, under Mr. (now Sir John), as Chief Secretary, in the first Ministry formed after the concession of responsible government, and was nominated to the new Legislative Council.

Sheppard, Hon. Edmund, sometime Puisne Judge of Queensland, was the fourth son of Samuel Sheppard, of Taunton, Somerset, and was born at Taunton on Nov. 1st, 1826. He was educated at Taunton and in London, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in June 1857, and went to Sydney shortly afterwards. He married, firstly, in July 1860, Mary Grace, daughter of the late C. E. Murray, of Sydney, who died in June 1869. He practised at the bar in Sydney, and in 1866 was appointed District Court Judge of Queensland. Judge Sheppard married, secondly, in Dec. 1871, Adela, daughter of the late E. J. Murray, solicitor, of London. He became Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland on July 17th, 1874; and died in London on Dec. 22nd, 1882.

Sheppard, Herbert Norman, B.A, fourth son of (q.v.), sometime Puisne Judge of Queensland, was born at Brisbane in Dec. 1868, and educated at Brisbane Grammar School and at the Charterhouse School, London, where he held a scholarship. Having obtained a minor scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered there in Oct. 1887, and was elected to a Foundation Scholarship in Dec. 1889. He graduated B.A. in the Mathematical Tripos, in June 1890, as seventeenth wrangler.

Sheppard, William Fleetwood, B.A., second son of the Hon. (q.v.), Puisne Judge of Queensland, was born in Sydney in Nov. 1862, and educated at Brisbane, at Charterhouse School, London, where he held a scholarship, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was Foundation Scholar April 1881. He graduated BA. in Mathematical Tripos, in June 1884, as senior wrangler; and was in the first division of the first class in Mathematical Tripos, Part III., in Jan. 1885. He lectured at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from Oct. 1885 to June 1886; and was elected Fellow of Trinity College in Oct. 1887. Mr. Sheppard was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in Nov. 1890. 413