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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 261 Bank, was a director of the Colonial Bank of Australia, the Victoria Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and the Australasian Fire, Marine, and Life Insurance Company ; and for some yeai-s he was president and member of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines. In 1864 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Winmera district, and sat in the Assembly till 1880, in which year he became a member of the Legislative Council ; knighted 1886, and created K.C.M.G. 1889. Hem. 13th July, 1853, Jessie, youngest daughter of the late William Smith, Esq. of Forres, N.B., but has no issue. Crest used — A wolfs head. Motto — Vires in arduis. jBesiJewce — Scotsburn, Toorak, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Clubs. — Australian and Melbourne, both in Melbourne. JMatansl) ot Canning Botons. MACANSH, HON. JOHN DONALD, of Canning Downs, near Warwick, Queensland, Australia, member of the Queensland Legislative Council, h. at Stirling, Scotland, 31st May, 1820 ; m. at Raymond Terrace, Hunter River, New South Wales, 8th January, 1849, Sarah Jane, daughter of Archibald Windeyer, Esq. of Kinross, near the town of Raymond Terrace, New South Wales (who was b. in England, was for upwards of thirty years an officer in the Ordnance Department, and, on retiring, emigrated with his family, in 1838, to New South Wales), and has issue, I. John Donald, junr., b. 19th December, 1852, in. Louisa Gore, and has issue, 1. John Donald. 1. Isabel. 2. Anne de Haviland. 3. Juliet. II. Thomas Windeyer, of Canning Downs, b. 1st September, 1854 ; unm. III. William, of Brighton, Victoria, Australia, physician, b. 19th Sep- tember, 1858 ; unm. IV. James Gilchrist, of Canning Downs, b. 6th June, 1860 ; unm. V. Archibald Rowland Finlay, of Brisbane, Queensland, b. 19th November, 1861 ; unm. VI. Andrew Walter Irby, of Sydney, New South Wales, b. 17th August, 1863 ; unin. I. Ann, b. 29th October, 1849; m. 10th June, 1873, William Thomas, Cadell, Esq. of Deepwater, New England, New South Wales, J. P., and has issue, 1. Donald James William. 2. Alan Macansh. 3. Colin Kingsmead. 1. Hilda Kathleen. 2. Beryl Nina. II. Elizabeth, b. 21st April, 1851 ; m. 31st May, 1876, Richard Hudson, Esq., and has issue.