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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
OBITUARY 'NOTICE OE THE HON. ROBERT GUPPY. 
|P|HE Hon. Robert Guppy, M.A., Member of the Legislative 
Council > di ed at his residence, Piedmont, San Fernando 
on the 12th November, 1894. 
Mr. Robert Guppy was the third son of Samuel Guppy 
Esquire, of the City of Bristol, and of Arno’s Court, Somerset, 
shire, England. 
Mr. Guppy was born in Bristol on 22nd January, 1808. 
e was educated at private schools in Leicester and London, 
and also, for six months, in the College of Henry IV in Paris. 
^Ie then entered at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he 
kent^r f ’ m 1829 ’ and M ' A " in 1830 ’ and havi »S duly 
kept the erms at the Middle Temple was called to the Bar 
n °' ember ’ 1831 ’ and wen * the Oxford Circuit, and at 
intervals travelled much in France, Switzerland and Italy. 
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Mr. Guppy practised at the Bar in Bno-lnr, i a 
after his marriage. Then at the request of ®° me time 
Esquire, (a connection by marriac e l L PWlp Prothcr °°> 
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connected with the sugar interest. * tlm6 
