28 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. IV. Catherine, h. 26th Septem- ber, 1863, and d. same day. T. Agnes, i. at Cawnpore, 12tli January, 1870. Tl. Priscilla, h. at Bareilly, 27t]i January, 1872. 2 Virginie, b. 29th January, 1835; m. 25th November, 1862, Rev. Alfred Wilson Mills, M.A., Ox- ford, rector of St. Erth, eo. Cornwall, son of the Eev. Wil- Ham MiUs, D.D., rector of St. Paul's, Exeter, and brother of the before-mentioned Major-General Henry Mills ; and has issue, I. Mary Virginie, b. 7th July, 1864. II. Katharine, b. 9th October, 1869. Mr. G-eorge Chaplin Holroyd m. 2ndly, 14th August, 1848, Fanny, sister of the Eev. Edward C. Har- ington. Chancellor of the Diocese of Exeter, and d. 24th November, 1871. She d. s.p. 25th March, 1874. II. Charles, b. 31st January, 1792; entered the Navy, and d. s.p. at Mo- minabad. East IncUes, 13th September, 1830. III. Henry Amos, b. 24th May, 1793 ; d. 23rd February, 1794, and was buried at Hampstead, co. Middlesex. IV. Edwaed, of whom presently. T. Frederick Court, b. 28th November, 1797 ; d. an infant, and was buried at Hampstead. Tl. Thomas, b. 23rd March, 1799 ; edu- cated at Harrow ; entered the profes- sion of the law, which he abandoned in 1827 ; was a member of the Light Horse Volunteers, and in 1821 did duty at the coronation of King Geoege IV ; in November, 1831, being on a visit to the continent, he had the good fortune to give important aid in saving the town of Spa from destruction by fii'e, for which service he was pre- sented with a silver medal. In 1832 Mr. Thomas Holroyd proceeded to Calciitta, and after joining a mercantile house there, became high sheriil of Calcutta in 1837, when Her Majesty Q,ueen Victoeia came to the throne, and had the satisfaction of presiding at a sheriff's meeting and signing the address to Her Majesty from the in- liabitants of Bengal. In January, 1839, Mr. Holroyd left Calcutta and settled in Gloucestershire, where he held a captain's commission in the yeomanry of the Duke of Beaufort, and was a member of his Grace's hunt ; subse- quently re-visited India, and returned for the second time in 1847 ; and after- wards, at the solicitation of an eminent mercantile firm, proceeded to the Indian Archipelago, and travelled as far as was then permitted over the islands of Java, Balli, Lombock, Sunibavva, Ti- mor, Borneo, and the Celebes, cruising among those islands for some eighteen months in 1847—48, and gaining very valuable information as to their capa- bilities. Mr. Thomas Holroyd m. 5th July, 1823, Sarah, daughter of William Morgan, Esq., and by her (who d. 29th June, 1853) has issue a daughter, Sarah Morgan, m. 29th October, 1872, as his 2nd wife, Kear Ad- miral William Charles Chamber- lain, admiral superintendent at Devonport Dockyard, who was b. 21st April, 1818; entered the Navy, June 1831 ; promoted to the rank of lieutenant 4th November, 1840, for his conspicuous gallantry at the storming of Acre, being himself the first man to surmount the walls ; appointed commander 22nd October, 1844; subsequently employed on the West Coast of Africa, capturing slavers, and in the Pacific ; afterwards, on account of ill-health, was obliged to go on half-pay, when he visited Malta, and for a time acted as private secretary to the governor. Sir W. Reid, G.C.B., R.E., but on the re- turn of his health he went to the Baltic in command of the " Con- flict " towards the end of the Crimean War, and was promoted to Post Rank, 21st February, 1856. After having been em- ployed on the Syrian coast. Cap- tain Chamberlain in July, 1862, commissioned the " Resistance " (one of the first ironclads) at Sheerness, and whilst in command of her in the Mediterranean, in 1865, he received the oiler of the command of the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth, which he accepted; in 1868 was appointed captain superintendent of Chatham Dock- yard, which important post he retained until he attained Flag Rank in January, 1874 ; appointed admiral superintendent of Devon- port and Keyham yards, and hoisted his flag 12th August, 1875 ; finally resigning June, 1876. Admiral Chamberlain was the eldest son of Sir Henry Chamber- lain, Bart, (see Burke's Peerage), by Anne Eugenia, his second wife, daughter of WiUiam Morgan, Esq. of London, and in. first, 19th June, 1845, Eliza Jane, eldest daughter of Captain Basil Hall, R.N., who was second son of Sir James Hall, Bart, (see Burke's Peerage), and by her had issue, Basil Hall, b. 18th October, 1850 ; Henry, late lieutenant R.N., b. 1st January, 1852; m. 1881, Isa- bel Ellen, daughter of Rev. Lewis Parker, and has issue, Henry Seymour, b. 1883 ; Alice Mary,
