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for its fine quality. Mr. and Mrs. Howe were presented 

 with their portraits by residents of Campbell town. He 

 died on August 1, 1855, at Glenlee, aged 78, and was buried 

 in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Campbell town, and has left 

 many descendants. 



Captain F. Irvine was a Captain of the llth Bengal 

 Native Infantry. In the "Sydney Gazette " of August 25, 

 1821, is the following notice: — "Birth — On the 25th instant 

 the Lady of Captain P. Irvine, etc. . . of a son." On 

 December 8, 1821, his house in O'Connell Street was to let 

 while on March 1, 1822 a notice appears of a lost letter, 

 addressed to Oapt. F. Irvine, Elderslee, Upper Minto. On 

 October 3, 1820, John Ox^ley sold the estate called Elderslee 

 near Camden to Francis Irvine, and on May 15, 1823, 

 Francis Irvine and Sophia Irvine his wife sold it to Thomas 

 Cuthbert Harrington. 



Rear-Admiral Philip Parker King, P.R.S., F.L.S. (1793 — 

 1856). 1 He was born on 13th December, 1793, being the 

 first child of European parents born on Norfolk Island. He 

 was a son of Philip Gidley King, a former Governor of New 

 South Wales. In 1817 Captain P. P. King was put in charge 

 of the "Mermaid," a cutter of 84 tons with directions to 

 complete the survey of the coasts of Australia which had 

 been begun by Flinders. He was accompanied by Allan 

 Cunningham the famous botanist and others. 2 For a record 

 of these journeys see notes by J. H. Maiden, p. xxx. supra. 

 He died at "Grantham," North Sydney, 25th February, 1856, 

 and was buried at St. Mary's, South Creek, N. S. Wales. 



1 Records of Australian Botanists, by J. H. Maiden, this Journal Vol. 

 xlii, 107, (1908). 



2 Journ. and Proc. Roy. Soc. Western Australia, Vol. i, 115, (1915). 



