Lineage. HON. SIR JAMES DOWLING, Knight (brother of Vincent George Dowling, Esq., who was grandfather of Vincent James Dowling, Esq. of Luie), was b. in London, 25th November, 1787; educated at St. Paul's School, London; in early life was newspaper reporter in the Houses of Parliament; called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1815; edited several legal text books, and brought out nine volumes of law reports. He was appointed a puisne judge of the colony of New South Wales, 6th August, 1827, and arrived at Port Jackson, in the ship 'Hooghly," with his family, 24th February, 1828; appointed acting chief justice, April, 1836, and chief justice in succession to Sir Francis Forbes, when he was knighted. Sir James Dowling m. in 1835, as his second wife, Harriott Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. John Blaxland, formerly of Newington Hall, co. Kent, England, and afterwards of Newington, Parramatta River, New South Wales, sometime member of the Legislative Council of that colony (see BLAXLAND OF FORDWICH), and widow of Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. of Calcutta, merchant (who m. in 1816, and had issue), and d. in Sydney, 27th September, 1844, aged 57 years, having had issue by his first wife, I. JAMES SHEEN, district court judge. 1. Susan, m. the Rev. Charles Spencer, II. Eliza, m. 30th March, 1842, Sir Arthur Hodgson, K.C.M.G. (1886), of Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, England, and of the Windham Club, London; formerly of Eton Vale, Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia, J.P. and D.L. for co. Warwick (high sheriff thereof 1881), and J.P. for the borough of Stratford, b. 29th June, 1818; educated at Eton Dow and Cambridge; emigrated to New South Wales, and arrived in Sydney in 1840; represented Darling Downs for some time in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, and after the separation of Queensland sat for the Warrego in the Parliament of the latter colony; sometime secretary for public works, colonial secretary, and premier of Queensland; was appointed general superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Company in 1856; and in 1874 returned to England. He was representative for Queensland at the Exhibition held in London, 1862; executive commissioner for the same colony at the Paris Exhibition, 1878; royal commissioner, &c., Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886; and was mayor of Stratford-on-Avon from 1884 to 1888; son of the Rev. Edward Hodgson (d. 1854), vicar of Rickmansworth, Herts, by Charlotte, his wife, sister of the late Colonel Pemberton, of Trumpington Hall, co. Cambridge, and has, with other issue (see HODGSON), Francis Henry (Rev.), M.A., vicar of Abbots Langley, Herts, b. 1848; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; m. July, 1881, Mary, second daughter of the late Hammond Solly, Esq. of Serge Hill, Herts. III. Maria, m. George Blaxland, Esq., a merchant captain trading between China and India, second son of the Hon. John Blaxland, of Newington; and d. s.p. Residence-Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dowling of Luie. OWLING, VINCENT JAMES, Esq. of Luie, Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia, J.P. for New South Wales and Queensland; b. in New South Wales, 11th January, 1835; m. Frances Emily, fifth daughter of Thomas Chaplin, Esq. of Breillah, Sydney, New South Wales, and has, 1. Willoughby Vincent, b. at Thargomindah, Queensland, 19th May, 1871; educated at Eton. II. Frank Osborne, b. 25th January, 1884. 1. Ethel Maude, b. at Thargomindah, Queensland, 3rd June, 1869. II. Ruth Beatrice, b. at Luie, New South Wales, 8th October, 1878. Mr. Dowling was educated in England, and on his return to his native country entered into the business of a squatter. He is one of the pioneers of Australia, having discovered the Cuttaburra and Spring country, and the river Paroo in 1859, on which he formed stations, and for many years was settled at Thargomindah, until 1875. He also opened up the country on the Bulloo, Wilson, and several other rivers. Mr. Dowling was appointed a justice of the peace for the colony of New South Wales in 1860, and for Queensland on the formation of that colony. In Queensland he holds several stations, among them the Gummin Gummin station. He purchased from Dr. Cox in 1877 the estate of Luie, which consists of 14,900 acres of land, on which are pastured many sheep, the wool from which has taken numerous prizes, among them the gold medal at Calcutta and the silver medal at Amsterdam. Lineage. VINCENT GEORGE DOWLING, Esq., a war correspondent, brother of Sir James Dowling, Knight, who was father of His Honour James Sheen Dowling, of Sydney, New South Wales, district court judge; was for many years editor of Bell's Life in London, and he it was who first caught Bellingham after the assassination of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer and prime minister of England, in the lobby of the House of Commons, 11th May 1812. He was father of WILLOUGHBY DOWLING, Esq., who emigrated to New South Wales in 1830, and resided at Flinton, near Sydney. He m. in 1834, and d. in 1848 (his widow surviving till 1870), having had issue, DEN I. VINCENT JAMES, of Luie. II. John Francis, murdered by blacks in unm. 1. Susan Emily, m. Francis Alexander Powell, Esq., eldest son of Nathaniel Powell, Esq. of Turalla, Bungendore, New South Wales, J.P., and has issue two sons and two daughters. Arms used-Or on a bend az. a stag's head cabossed between two billets. Crest-A falcon belled and jessed, holding in the dexter claw a sword. Motto-Fortis et egregius. Residence-Luie, Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia. Club-Union, Sydney. Denison of Rusholme. ENISON, LIEUT.-COLONEL FREDERICK CHARLES, C.M.G. (1885), F.R.H.S., of Rusholme, Toronto, Canada, lieut.-colonel in Governor-General's Body Guard, M.P. for West Toronto, Canada, b. at Rusholme, Toronto, 22nd November, 1846; m. at Chippawa, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 22nd April, 1874, Julia Abigail, daughter of Oliver Tiffany Macklem, Esq. of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and has issue, 1. Frederick Coningham, b. 5th July, 1875. VI. Egerton Boyer, b. 6th February, 1887. II. Dora Louise. Colonel Denison was called to the Bar 1870, and was alderman of the city of Toronto from 1878 to 1884; was a cornet in the Governor-General's Body Guard during Fenian raid into Canada in 1866; served as orderly officer to Sir Garnet (now Viscount) Wolseley in the Red River Expedition of 1870, appointed captain in 1872, major in 1876, and lieut.-colonel in 1884. Went to Egypt in command of Canadian voyageurs, employed by the Imperial Government in the campaign in the Soudan, 1884-85, for the relief of General Gordon, and while accompanying General Earle's column took part in the battle of Kirbekan, and for his services received the Egyptian medal and two clasps, and was made C.M.G. Lineage. The founder of the Canadian branch of the Denison family was CAPTAIN JOHN DENISON, son of GEORGE DENISON, Esq. of Headon, Yorkshire. He was b. at Headon, 20th November, 1755. After serving a number of years with his regiment, the 2nd West York, Captain Denison sailed for Canada, 1st July, 1792, eventually settling in Toronto, 1796. He purchased a large tract of land near Weston, co. York, Ontario, about 1798, which is still in the possession of the family. He m. Sophia, daughter of Arthur Taylor, Esq. of Dovercourt, Harwich, co. Essex, England, and d. at Toronto, 28th October, 1824, having had issue, I. GEORGE TAYLOR (LIEUT.-COLONEL), II. Thomas, m. and left issue. 1. Elizabeth Sophia, m. John F. Taylor, LIEUT.-COLONEL GEORGE TAYLOR DENISON, of Bellevue, Toronto, b. 29th December, 1783; m. Esther Borden, daughter of Captain Richard Lippincott, a United Empire Loyalist, who, after fighting for seven years for his king and a "United Empire," settled near Toronto, receiving a large grant of land in the township of Vaughan, comprising about 3,000 acres, from the Crown, as compensation for the loss of his property in the United States, which had been confiscated. He d. 18th December, 1853, leaving issue, I. Richard Lippincott (Lieut.-Colonel), unsuccessfully contested West York in 1861, and d. 10th March, 1878, leaving issue. II. George Taylor (Colonel), of whom presently. III. Robert Brittain (Lieut.-Colonel), was brigade-major and afterwards deputy adjutant-general of Toronto district. He has issue. IV. Charles Leslie, b. 21st August, 1841, m. and has issue. FIN 1. Sophia, m. William Coates, Esq. II. Mary, m. J. Fennings Taylor, Esq., and has issue. III. Georgina. The second son, COLONEL GEORGE TAYLOR DENISON, of Rusholme, Toronto, b. at Bellevue, Toronto, 17th July, 1816, was sometime senior officer of Militia in the province of Nova Scotia. He d. 30th May, 1873, having had (by Mary Anne Dewson, his wife) seven sons and two daughters, viz., 1. George Taylor, lieut.-colonel com- III. Henry Tyrwhitt, b. 29th January, IV. Clarence Alfred Kinsey, captain and adjutant Governor-General's Body Guard, b. 9th April, 1851. v. John, lieutenant R.N., b. 25th May, Finlayson of Strelda. INLAYSON, JOHN HARVEY, Esq. of Strelda, Stanley-street, North Adelaide, South Australia, J.P., editor and part proprietor of the South Australian Register, and member of the North Adelaide School Board of Advice under Education Department, b. 3rd February, 1843; m. 20th March, 1878, Alice, daughter of the late Thomas Shoobridge, Esq. of London, merchant, by Jane Pym, his wife (a descendant of John Pym, temp. CHARLES I), and by her has issue, 1. Harvey Pym, b. 11th January, 1881. II. Katharine Alice, b. 14th August, 1879. Lineage. HENRY FINLAYSON, Esq., was a freeman of the city of Glasgow, whither he removed from Stirling. By Mary Fletchfield, his wife, he had five sons, William, ROBERT (of whom presently), James, John, and Ebenezer, and one daughter, m. to Robert Brigson, Esq. ROBERT FINLAYSON, Esq., burgess of Glasgow (in which city he was a manufacturer, with his son of the same name), m. Jane Connell, and had eleven children, the youngest of whom, WILLIAM FINLAYSON, Esq. of Helenholme, Mitcham, South Australia, arrived in that colony, February, 1837. He m. at Edinburgh, 30th September, 1836, Helen Harvey (who d. 20th October, 1884), and has had issue, I. Robert Kettle (Rev.), m. twice, and by his first wife, two daughters, and by III. JOHN HARVEY, of Strelda. II. Helen Harvey, widow of William III. Jessie Grace, unm. IV. Elizabeth Mary Christina, m. Hubert Nickels, Esq., and has four sons and one daughter. v. Hannah, m. William B. Randell, Esq., and has two sons and three daughters. Residence-Strelda, Stanley-street, North Adelaide, South Australia. Studholme of Merebale and Coldstream. TUDHOLME, JOHN, Esq. of Merevale, Christchurch; and Coldstream, House of Representatives for Kaiapoi, Canterbury, from 1867 to 1874, and also for Gladstone from 1878 to 1832, b. in 1829; educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He left England for Canterbury, New Zealand in 1851, where he was for many years a member of the Provincial Council of Canterbury, and m. in 1862, Lucy Ellen Sykes, daughter of William Moorhouse, Esq. of Knottingley, W.R. co. York, England, J.P., and has issue, 1. John, b. 1863; educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand, and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1887). 11. William Paul, b. 1864; educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, III. Joseph Francis, b. 1866; educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, 1 Lucy Ellen, b. 1869. II. Florence Mary, b. 1872. Lineage. The family of Studholme, at a very remote period, removed from Hinchcliffe, co. Durham, into Cumberland, where they continued to hold land till 1853, when Mr. John Studholme's elder brother Joseph went over to Ireland, and purchased an estate in King's County. JOHN STUDHOLME, Esq. of Studholme, Abbey Holme, and afterwards of Morton Head and St. Nicholas, near Carlisie, co. Cumberland, sold the last of the family estates. By Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Paul Nixon, Esq., he had issue, 1. Joseph, of Ballyeighan and Kilmaine, J.P. for King's co., Ireland, m. 11th July, 1878, Mary Hastings, only daughter of James Robert Davis, Esq. of Bagot-street, Dublin, by Charlotte Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Robert Atkins, Esq. of Firville, co. Cork, and has had issue, 1. John, b. 9th June, and d. 5th July, 1882. 2. Launcelot Joseph Moore, b. 21st 1. Elizabeth Charlotte Anne. II. JOHN, of whom we treat. FRE French of Prescott and Toronto. RENCH, FREDERICK JOHN, Esq. of Prescott, co. Grenville, and of Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada, barrister-at-law, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada (returned in 1879, and re-elected in 1883 and 1886), b. at Burritts Rapids, co. Grenville, Ontario, 18th January, 1847; educated at Ottawa; called to the Bar, May, 1870; m. at Stratford, Ontario, 28th April, 1875, Alma Lucia, daughter of John Gordon, Esq., formerly of Aberdeen, Scotland, and has issue, 1. Frederick Henry, b. 18th February, 1876. Lineage. JEREMIAH FRENCH, Esq. (the great grandfather of the above), or his immediate ancestor, is said to have come from the neighbourhood of Manchester, co. Lancaster. There is some account of him given in Munson's Early History of Manchester, Vermont, U.S.A., in 1764, to which point he came from New York State, and the public records at Montpelier, the capital of Vermont, contain much information about him. On the breaking out of the Revolution he, with a few others at Manchester, refused to assist the rebels, and joined the British Army in Canada, serving as an officer under Burgoyne. In consequence of his loyalty to the British Crown his lands at Manchester were confiscated, and his wife and children driven from their home and land across the border. In 1792 he was a member of the first Canadian Parliament, and his name appears in the original records of the Parliament, which are in England. During the visit of the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria), in the early part of this century, he was entertained at the residence of Jeremiah French, and it was during the festivities on this occasion that the latter's daughter, a young girl, was accidentally shot by her own father, when the gentlemen, including the duke, were at target practice. issue, a son, He m., and had, amongst other BENJAMIN FRENCH, Esq., who m. Miss Benjamin, m. Sophia, daughter of Colonel Maria, m. James Forsythe, Esq. JOHN STRACHAN FRENCH, Esq. of Burritts Rapids, b. at Cornwall, Ontario, 1st March, 1812; m. 1st June, 1836, Marianne Chesley, of Cornwall, who was b. 16th September, 1811, and d. 17th September, 1867. He d. 10th January, 1858, leaving, amongst other issue, the present FREDERICK JOHN FRENCH, Esq. Arms used-Sa., a bend or, between two dolphins embowed arg. Crest-Acrescent per pale arg. and or, between the horns a fleur-de-lis counterchanged. Motto-Malo mori quam fædari. Residences-Prescott, co. Grenville; Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada. |
