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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 73 v. Mary, m. Edward Clibborn. Ti. Euth. Mr. Clibborn was s. by his eldest son, John Clibboex, Esq. of Moate, m. Eliza- beth, widow of Richard Fetherstonhaugh, Esq. and had surviving issue, I. CuTHBEET John, his successor. I. Mai'v, m. her cousin, William Goff. II. Sarah. III. Abigail. Mr. Chbborn was s. by his only surviving son, CuTHBEBT John Clibbobn, Esq. of Moate, b. 1803 ; m. February, 1836, Jane, daughter of Greorge Arbuthnot Holmes, Esq. of Moo- rock, in the King's Co., and d. 1847, having had by her (who d. 2nd March, 1876) four sons and one daughter, I. Thomas Steettel, now of Holmesby, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, and of The Castle, Moate, co. Westmeath. II. Greorge Holmes, b. 23rd August, 1840, d. March, 1853. III. Cuthbert John, of Kiltegan, co. Wicklow, b. 10th January, 1846 ; m. November, 1871, Mary Graves, daughter of Graves Cathrew, Esq., barrister-at-law, and has issue, 1. Graves Cathrew, b. 1875. 2. Cuthbert John, b. 1877. 1. Jane Holmes, b. 1872. 2. Georgina, b. 1874. IT. John, captain Bengal Staff Corps, of Moorook House, Moate, King's Co., and of Bareilly, North-West Pro- vinces, India, b. 8th December, 1847 ; m. 8lh November, 1881, Annie Leonie Macpherson Frith, daughter of John Butler Hamilton, brigade surgeon. Army Medical Staff, and has issue, 1. Cuthbert John Hamilton, b. at Mussourie, 13th November, 1883. 2. Cecil Hamilton, b. at Aligarh, 19th February, 1886. 1. Leonie Annie Holmes, b. at Naini Tal, 16th September, 1882. 2. Violet Louise, b. at Aligarh, 29th January, 1885. I. Jane Moore, b. 8th August, 1838 ; d. 13th August, 1853. Arms — Arg., two cheveronels between thi-ee wolves' heads erased sa. on a chief of the last an escallop between two round buckles of the first. Crest — Out of a ducal coronet or, a wolf's head sa. Motto — Virtus vincit invidiam. Residences — Holmesby, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and The Castle, Moate, co. Westmeath, Ireland. CASEY, HON. JAMES JOSEPH, C.M.G., of Ibrickane, Acland- street, St. Kilda ; and of Weeroona, Port Phillip Bay, both in Victoria, Australia, chairman of General Sessions, and judge of County Courts, Courts of Mines and Courts of Insolvency for the colony of Victoria, chairman of Land Tax Commissioners, member of the Executive Council of Victoria knight officer Legion of Honour, and knight officer Crown of Italy, h. at Tromroe, barony of Ibrickane, co. Clare, Ireland, 25th December, 1881 • m. Maria Theresa, daughter of James Cahill, Esq., by Mai-y McNamara, his wife, but has no issue. The Hon. J. J. Casey was educated at the Galway College, and, after having spent some time in America, proceeded to Australia arriving in Melbourne 14th February, 1855. The same year he became part proprietor of the Bendigo Advertiser, and afterwards of the M'lvor Times, and the Riverine Herald ; was appointed a territorial magistrate and was returned to the Legislative Assembly for Mandurang in 1863, which seat he retained for many years ; was some time commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey ; in 1868 was appointed Minister of Justice under the M'Culloch administration • and in 1869 was also appointed Solicitor- General. He was president of the Board of Land and Works in the Francis Government, from 1872 to 1875 and first Minister of Agriculture, the department of agriculture havincr been founded by him. Judge Casey was appointed chaii'mau of a Royal Com- mission on Intercolonial Legislation, and a Court of Appeal in 1870, and in 1878 was president of the Victoria Commission, and executive commissioner