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  of Rev. John Fowell, D.D., was born at Bath in 1814, and educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford, of which he was sometime Fellow. He graduated B.A. (third class Lit. Hum.) in 1837, M.A. in 1842, and was created D.D. in 1859. He was ordained deacon in 1837 and priest in 1839, being curate of Broadhinton, Wilts, from 1840 to 1846, and rector of Beachingstoke in the same county from 1846 to 1857. He was prebendary of Salisbury, from 1850 to 1857, rector of St. Peter and St. Paul, Marlborough, 1857-9, Senior Proctor Oxford 1857-8, and Select Preacher 1858-9, when he was consecrated first Bishop of Brisbane by Archbishop Sumner and Bishops Wilberforce and Hamilton. He resigned the see in 1873, and returned to England, being curate-in-charge of Charing from 1877 to 1879, and vicar and rural dean of Croydon from 1879 to 1882, when he became canon of Chichester and vicar of Felpham in that diocese, a preferment which he still holds.

Tulloch, Major-General Alexander Bruce, C.B., Commandant of the Victorian military forces, is the son of the late Lieut.-Col. Tulloch, and was born on Sept. 2nd, 1838. He was educated at Sandhurst, and entered the army as ensign 1st Foot, in May 1855. He became lieutenant of that regiment in 1857; captain 96th Foot in 1864; captain 69th Foot in 1866; brevet-major in 1877; major Welsh Regiment in 1881; brevet-lieut.-colonel in 1882; lieut.-colonel Welsh Regiment in 1883; and colonel in the army in 1886, being placed on half-pay in 1888. He was appointed Commandant of the Victorian Military Forces, with the local rank of Major-General, on Sept. 20th, 1889, a position which he still holds. Major-General Tulloch married in 1865 Arabella, daughter of the late Stephen Healis. In 1892 he presided over the commission appointed by the New South Wales Government to inquire into the military condition of that colony.

Tully, William Alcock, B.A., F.R.G.S., was born in Dublin in 1830, and graduated B.A. at Trinity College in 1852. In the same year he emigrated to Tasmania, and entered the Survey department of that colony, where he remained until 1863, when he joined the Queensland Civil Service as Commissioner for Lands in the Kennedy district, being transferred to the Warrego the next year, at the end of which he came to Brisbane, being appointed Deputy Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, which position he held until 1866, when he was appointed Chief Commissioner and Under-Secretary for Lands. He became Surveyor-General in 1875, and held that post till July 1889, when he was appointed a member of the Land Board.

Turner, Hon. George, M.L.A., Solicitor-General, Victoria, is a solicitor in Melbourne, and was returned to the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda in 1889. After the death of Mr. Langridge in April 1891, he joined the Ministry as Commissioner of Customs, and continued to hold office when the Ministry was reconstructed under Mr. in Feb. and April 1892. He is Solicitor-General, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, and Minister of Health.

Turner, Lieut.-Colonel George Napier, commanding brigade Victorian Field Artillery, son of James Turner, of Melbourne, by his marriage with Miss Agnes Aitken, was born in Melbourne on June 15th, 1842. He married in Melbourne, on Dec. 14th, 1871, Miss Margaret T. Carson. On the death of his father, in May 1867, he became senior partner in the firm of James Turner & Son, of Melbourne, station and wool agents. In 1885 the business was amalgamated with the Union Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., of whose Australian Board Lieut.-Col. Turner has since been chairman. He received his first commission in the St. Kilda Battery of Artillery Volunteers in 1863, and rose to the rank of captain. When he left to take the position of staff-officer of the Home District he was promoted to be major. In 1884 he was appointed to command the brigade of field artillery, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was A.D.C. to his Excellency Sir, 1886-9, and A.D.C. to his Excellency the , 1889. He has been a member of the Victorian Council of Defence since its establishment in 1884.

Turner, Henry Gyles, general manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia (Limited), was born at Kensington, London, in 1831. His mother was possessed of a moderate fortune, which his father lost. The subject of this memoir was apprenticed to William Pickering, the celebrated Aldine publisher and  474