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 Tyrrell, Right Rev. William, D.D., first Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, was the son of Timothy Tyrrell, Remembrancer of the City of London, by his marriage with Elizabeth, only daughter of John Dollond, the famous optician. He was educated at the Charterhouse, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a scholarship and graduated fourth Senior Optime. Having been ordained in 1832, he held incumbencies at Aylestone, Leicestershire, and Beaulieu, Hampshire. In 1847 it was decided to divide the unwieldy diocese of Australia, and of the new see of Newcastle then created Dr. Tyrrell was appointed first bishop. Whilst proving himself an exemplary missionary prelate, Dr. Tyrrell embarked largely in pastoral pursuits, and with such success that he was enabled to leave the noble legacy of £250,000 to be expended on the endowment of his diocese on a plan which he had drawn up and partially carried into effect prior to his decease. The scheme apportioned, in addition to provision for the working clergy, £10,000 for superannuation and sick funds, £26,000 for the training of future clergy, and £44,000 for the religious education of the young. In 1876 the bishop had a paralytic stroke, and died at Newcastle on March 24th, 1879, of hernia, brought on by the long and rapid journeys which he had undertaken in his early episcopal career.

Tyson, James, is the son of the late William Tyson, who came of a respectable Cumberland stock, but having offended his family by a marriage of which they disapproved, was driven into enlisting in the army. His discharge was purchased about 1818, and he went out to Sydney with Mr. Commissioner Bigge, who had been entrusted with the task of inquiring into certain allegations made against Governor Macquarie. He remained in Mr. Bigge's service for some time, and then took a farm at Cowpasture, where he acted as district constable. Here his son James was born on April 11th, 1823. Starting in life as a working overseer, at a salary of £30 per annum, he joined his brother William in a run at the junction of the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers, which they took up in 1846. In 1851, when gold was discovered in Victoria, James Tyson commenced cattle droving to Sandhurst, and opened a wholesale and retail butchering business at Sandhurst, which he carried on with great success till 1855, when he purchased a number of stations in New South Wales as well as the famous Heyfield estate in Gippsland, Victoria. The former included immense tracts of country on the Darling Downs and the Warrego River, in what is now Queensland; and such was the wealth which he acquired by his pastoral ventures that he was able many years ago to offer the Government of Queensland a loan of half a million towards the construction of a proposed transcontinental railway. Mr. Tyson, who is regarded as the richest man in Australia, has been a liberal subscriber to local objects, and a great friend and protector of the aborignals [sic] on his various stations. He has refused all parliamentary honours and distinctions. He is a bachelor, most economical in his personal expenditure, and a total abstainer from wine, spirits and tobacco. In 1892, in a time of great financial strain for the colony, he took up £250,000 of Treasury bills in order to assist the Government.

Ullathorne, The Most Rev. William Bernard, D.D., O.S.B., first Vicar-General of Australia, was born at Pocklington, Yorkshire, on May 7th, 1806. His father was a grocer, draper, and spirit merchant in the town, supplying it with coal and discounting bills for its inhabitants in the absence of a bank. The family history is somewhat curious. The Archbishop's great-grandfather was a gentleman of property in the West Riding of the county of York, having acquired an estate through his marriage with Miss Binks, one of the lineal descendants of the great Sir Thomas More and a connection of the Waterton family. The property was forfeited through Mr. Ullathorne being mixed up in the 1745  476