180 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. I. Annie Grace, m. Frederick Langloli Parker, Esq., and has issue, three sons and two daughters. II. Jessie, d. 1872. Arms used — Qyronny of eight erm. and sa., a lion ramp. or. Crest — A talbot pass, per pale erm. and or. Residence — St. Leonards, St. KUda, Mel- bourne, Victoria, Australia. Cartlui(ijJ)t of %)t JHapIes. CARTWRIGHT, HON. SIR RICHARD JOHN, K.C.M.G. (1879), P.O. (1872), of The Maples, co. Frontena.c, and of King-street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, M.P. for Soutli Oxford and leader of the opposition in the Dominion House of Commons, president of the late Conimercial Bank of Canada, minister of finance 1873 to 1878 ; h. at Kingston, Canada, 4th. Decem- ber, 1835 ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; entered Canadian Parliament 1863 ; in. 1859, Frances, eldest daughter of Colonel Alexander Lawe, H.E.I.C.S, of Cork, Ireland, and has issue. Hineaae. There were three families bearing this surname in the time of Hbnbt VIII. Sir Richard is supposed to be descended from the Eet. S. Caetwright, pi-incipal of one of the colleges in Oxford, temp. Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Cartwright, who was sent to Boston by Charles II, in 1663, as commissioner to the then colony of Massachusetts, is also thought to be an ancestor of Sir Richard John Cart- wright. Richard Caetwright, Esq., was h. in London, February, 1720, settled in New York, 1741. In the troubles of 1775-6 his house was sacked and burnt, and he and liis son driven into exile. It is probable that all documentary evidence which might have proved the family to have been a cadet of the Cartwrights of Aynhoe then perished. He m. in 1743, Miss Beaseley, of Albany, State of New York (descended from one of the early Dutch families wlio settled in New Amster- dam when a Dutch colony), and had issue, Hon. Richard Cartwright, member of the Legislative Council of tipper Canada from its formation in 1792 vmtil his death, h. at Albany, State of New York, then a British colony, 2nd February, 1759. He accom- panied his parents into Canada, and for a time attended Colonel Butler, of the Queen's Rangers, as his secretary. He afterwards was associated with the Hon. Robert Hamilton, until this gentleman went to Niagara, Mr. Cartwright remaining at Kingston. Soon after his settlement in Kingston, Mr. Cart- wright was appointed judge of the Common Pleas, and on the division of the provinces was appointed a member of the Legislative Council, but declined to accept a seat in the Executive Council, which was several times offered to him. He m,. Miss Secord, of French Huguenot extraction (whose family came to America on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Lotus XIV), and d. at Montreal in 1815, having had issue, I. R. D. (Rev.), of whom presently. II. James, d. v.p. III. John S., b. 1804, represented the county of Lennox and Addington from 1836 until his death, in 1845, at Kings- ton. He left issue. IV. Stephen, d. v.p. I. Hannah, d. v.p. Rev. R. D. Cartwright, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, chaplain to the forces; m. Harriet, daughter of Conway Edward Dobbs, Esq. of Dublin, a descendant of the family of Dobbs, of Castle Dobbs, co. Antrim, Ireland. She d. at Kingston, in 1887. He d. at Kings- ton in 1843, leaving issue, the present Hon. Sir Richard John Cartwright. Arms used — Erm. a fess hetmeen three fire- balls sa. fired ppr. Crest — A wolf's head erased or, pierced through the neck ivith the broken blade of a sword arg. Motto — Defend the fold. Residences — The Maples, co. Frontenao ; and 13, King - street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ^apiie of ^otitJ) ^arra. PAYNE, THOMAS BUDDS, Esq. of Maritime, Soutli Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, J. P., h. 19th April, 1819, in Carlow, Ireland ; arrived in Melbourne, 24th December, 1839, and is amongst the successful pioneers of the colony He was for some time engaged in pastoral pursuits,
