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 Museum of Mines. The fossil discoveries in the gold drifts and coal measures of New South Wales elicited the acknowledgments of the leading palaeontologists, and a new genus and several new species have been named after him. Mr. Wilkinson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and of the Linnæan and Geological Societies of London. In 1890 he was appointed to take charge of the collections forwarded by New South Wales to the Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, held at the Crystal Palace in that year. Mr. Wilkinson died on August 26th, 1891.

Wilkinson, William Hattam, District Court Judge, New South Wales, is the son of Captain Henry Richard Wilkinson, H.E.I.C.S., and Deborah Jane (Busby) his wife; and nephew of the late Rev. Frederick Wilkinson, M.A., one of the early colonial chaplains, and emigrated to the colony in 1852. He was called to the Bar in Sydney in Dec. 1858, and in 1860 was appointed Associate to the late Mr. Justice Wise. He is the author of "Wilkinson's Australian Magistrate," which has gone through several editions, the first of which was published in 1860. He was for eight years the authorised reporter for the Common Law division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and the first eight volumes of the Supreme Court reports bear his name. In 1864, on the death of Mr. C. K. Murray, he became one of the parliamentary draftsmen, in 1870 a Crown prosecutor, and in 1874 District Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions in the Metropolitan and Hunter district, a position he still holds. Judge Wilkinson, who was educated at the Bluecoat School and King's College, London, married in Feb. 1852 Elizabeth Sibyl, daughter of W. Milligan, M.D., of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons.

Williams, Sir Edward Eyre, an eminent Victorian jurist, was a native of England, and was called to the English Bar in 1833. Shortly after the foundation of Port Phillip, he went to that settlement, and for ten years practised his profession in Melbourne. In 1844 he was elected a member of the Bourke District Council, with which he remained connected for some seven or eight years. On the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales, Mr. Williams announced himself as a candidate for the Loddon in the Legislative Council of Victoria; but he did not go beyond issuing an address, as in July 1851 he was appointed Commissioner of the Court of Requests for the city of Melbourne and the county of Bourke. In Jan. 1852 he became in addition Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and also continued to practise before the Supreme Court, where he held the leading position. In April 1852 he took office as Solicitor-General, and became an ex-officio member of the Legislative Council. He was, however, almost immediately afterwards appointed to the third puisne judgeship of the Supreme Court of Victoria which it was found necessary to create. He retained his seat upon the Bench until 1874, when he resigned through ill-health and returned to England. He was knighted in 1878, and died in 1879.

Williams, His Honour Hartley, Supreme Court Judge, Victoria, is 2nd son of the late Sir (q.v.), and was born in Collingwood, Vict., on Oct. 15th, 1843. He was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1866. He entered as a student at the Inner Temple in Jan. 1863, and was called to the Bar in April 1867. In the same year he returned to Victoria and was admitted a barrister of the Supreme Court of that colony in April 1868. He very quickly took a leading position as a common law pleader, and twice unsuccessfully contested St. Kilda for a seat in the Legislative Assembly in 1874. Subsequent to this he took no part in politics, but was raised to the Bench of the Supreme Court in July 1881.

'''Williams, Ven. Henry''', Archdeacon of Waimate, N.Z. was the third son of Thomas Williams and Mary (Marsh) his wife, and was born at Nottingham, England, in 1792. He entered the royal navy, to which profession his grandfather and three maternal uncles had belonged, in 1806, during the war with France, being commissioned to serve under Sir Joseph Yorke, a friend of his family, first in the Harfleur, and afterwards in several other war-ships. He was one of the volunteers who joined Captain (afterwards Sir Charles) Napier, to co-operate with the army under the command of Lord Wellington; and after that expedition had been countermanded, he joined the Thames under Captain Walpole, and 509