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 College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1840, M.A. in 1843, and was made D.D. in 1863. He was ordained deacon in 1840, and priest in 1841, and commenced his ecclesiastical career as a curate at Birmingham. In 1843 he was appointed vicar of Tuddenham St. Martin, in Suffolk, and was Secretary to the Colonial Church and Schools Society from the latter year till 1863, when he was appointed the first Bishop of Goulburn. Bishop Thomas married in 1843 the second daughter of Thomas Hinton Hasluck, of Handsworth, near Birmingham. He died in New South Wales on March 15th, 1892.

Thomas, Robert, a native of Wales, was born in 1781. Settling in London on coming of age, he was in business in Fleet Street for a lengthened period. When the colony of South Australia was about to be established he decided on starting a newspaper there, in conjunction with Mr. George Stevenson, who acted as editor. The first copy of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register was printed in London on June 18th, 1836, prior to the departure of the first Governor and the first batch of emigrants. Mr. Thomas, with his wife and family, arrived in the colony by the Africaine in Nov. 1836; his eldest son Robert having preceded him as one of Colonel Light's Survey Staff in the Cygnet. The first number of the Register published in the colony appeared on June 3rd, 1837. Mr. Thomas lived many years after the success of his enterprising venture had surpassed his hopes. He had for some years severed his connection with the proprietary when he died, on July 1st, 1860.

Thomas, Robert Kyffin, son of William Kyffin and Mary Thomas, was born at Nailsworth, near Adelaide, South Australia, on August 19th, 1851, educated at the Adelaide Educational Institution, conducted by Mr. J. L. Young, and married on Jan. 6th, 1876, Amelia, daughter of the late R. G. Bowen. He is joint proprietor with Mr. J. H. Finlayson of the South Australian Register and associated papers.

Thomas, William Kyffin, second son of Robert Thomas, was born in Fleet Street, London, in 1821, and emigrated to South Australia with his father in 1836, and from that time until the day of his death Mr. Thomas was intimately associated with the fortunes of the South Australian Register, for the last twenty-five years of his life as one of the proprietors. To his industry and ability in the different capacities in which he acted was due to a large extent the high character and phenomenal success of the Register, and the weekly and afternoon journals issued from the same office—the Adelaide Observer and Evening Journal. The firm which now conducts these papers bears the name of the subject of this notice, being known as W. K. Thomas & Co., and consists of of Mr. John Harvey Finlayson and Mr. Robert Kyffin Thomas, the latter being the elder son of Mr. William Kyffin Thomas, and grandson of the founder of the Register. Mr. Thomas died on July 4th, 1878.

Thompson, Hon. John Malbon, is the son of John Thompson, sometime Deputy Surveyor-General for New South Wales by his marriage with the daughter of Charles Windeyer. He was born in Sydney on Dec. 24th, 1830, and educated at Cape's Grammar School. He was admitted an attorney and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1855, and removing to Queensland, where he was admitted to the Bar in June 1880, practised at Ipswich, for which town he was returned to the Assembly in 1868. Whilst representing this constituency he was Chairman of Committees for two years, Secretary for Lands in the Ministry from May 1870 to July 1873, and Secretary for Public Works from the latter date till Jan. 1874, when the Government retired. He was Minister of Justice in the first Administration from Jan. to May 1879. Mr. Thompson has resumed the practice of his profession as a solicitor in Sydney. During his tenure of office as Minister of Lands he carried the Homestead Areas Bill, and did a good deal to stop the "dummying" of the State lands.

Thomson, Hon. Sir Edward Deas, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.L.C., sometime Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, second son of Sir John Deas Thomson, K.C.H., Accountant-General of the Navy, was born at Edinburgh on June 1st, 1800, and educated at the High School there, at Harrow, and at Caen in Normandy. After assisting his father in introducing the system of double entry 464