WINDHAM, ASHE SMYTH.-Educated at the diocesan college, Cape Town; graduated at the university of the Cape of Good Hope, 1881; clerk and registrar iu the office of the special commissioner for Zulu affairs, 21st April, 1882.

WINDSOR, W. H.-Assistant colonial treasurer, Tasmania, 8 July, 1873.

WINGFIELD, EDWARD.-Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, B.C.L. and M.A. Oxon.); called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn, 10th June, 1859; went the home circuit; appointed assistant under secretary of state for the colonies, 19th July, 1878.

WINTER, GEORGE.-Served in the 95th foot in the Crimea (medal and clasp and Turkish medal) and in the Indian mutiny; goods inspector Mauritius railways, 1865.

WINSTON, J. H.-Sub-inspector of roads, Dominica, March, 1874.

WINTER, HON. J. S.-Solicitor-general, Newfoundland, 8 Oct., 1882 to 1885.

WISDOM, ROBERT.-Attorney-general, New South Wales, 13th Aug., 1879, to 4th Jan., 1883. WISE, ALFRED GASCOYNE, LL.B.-Educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge; called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn, January, 1878; clerk to the chief justice at Hong Kong, 1882 (resigned, 1883); police magistrate, January, 1884; acting registrar of the supreme court; official trustee, registrar of companies, and land officer, March, 1885.

WODEHOUSE, THE HON. ARMINE.-Second son of the Earl of Kimberley, born 1860; appointed assistant secretary (unpaid) to the Earl of Kimberley, Feb., 1882; transferred in same capacity to the India Office, 17th Dec., 1882; resigned June, 1885.

WODEHOUSE, H. E.-Educated at Repton School; appointed to a Hong Kong cadetship, 1867; student interpreter, 1869; superintendent of Chinese police, 1872; sheriff, 1873; chief clerk in the colonial secretary's office and clerk of councils, 1875; 1st March, 1876, acting colonial secretary during the administration of Mr. J. Gardiner Austin, and pending the arrival of Governor Pope Hennessy; in July was appointed acting registrar-general and protector of Chinese; police magistrate and coroner, 1881.

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WODEHOUSE, SIR PHILIP E., G.C.S.I. (1876) K.C.B. (1862). Writer, Ceylon, May, 1828; assistant colonial secretary and clerk of the executive and legislative councils, Oct., 1833; district judge of Kandy, 1840; government agent for the western province, 1843; superintendent of Honduras, 1851; governor of British Guiana, Feb., 1854; was employed in 1858 on a special mission to the government of Venezuela; governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1861; and also high commissioner in South Africa; governor of Bombay, 7th May, 1872, to 30th April, 1877.

WOLFF, SIR HENRY DRUMMOND, G.C.M.G. (1878); K.C.B. (1879); (K.C.M.G., 1862).—Entered the foreign service in 1846; was attached 1852, to Her Majesty's legation at Florence, where he served for a short time as acting chargé d'affaires; was attached, 1856, to the Earl of Westmoreland's special mission to Brussels to congratulate the king on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his acces sion, and, with Lord Westmoreland, accompanied the king on part of his progress through the kingdom; was apponted by royal decree a knight of the order of Leopold of Belgium, but was not allowed to accept the decoration; assistant private secre

tary of state for foreign affairs; in Nov., private secretary to the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, secretary of state for the colonies; was named by the Queen in April, 1859, C.M.G., and appointed to the honorary office of king of arms of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; public secretary to the lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, June, 1859; in the same year a member of a commission presided over by the lord high commissioner to inquire into the state of public departments; in 1860, was named member of a commission to inquire and report on the state of the Ionian finances; was delegated to represent the Ionian government at the international statistical congress held in London in 1860; was appointed, 1861, by the Ionian government, vice-president of a commission to organize, in 1862, an exhibition of the works of Ionian art and industry, and in the same year member of a commission to inquire into and prepare a project of law for regulating the system of public instruction in the Ionian Islands; was commissioner for the Ionian Islands at the International Exhibition of 1862; unsuccessfully contested the borough of Christ Church, in the general election, 1868, but was elected for that borough in the general election of 1874; appointed in 1878 to be Her Majesty's commissioner on the European commission for the organization of Eastern Roumelia, under the 18th Article of the Treaty of Berlin; sat as member for Portsmouth, 1880 to 1885; sent on a special mission in connection with the affairs of Egypt to Constantinople and Cairo,

1885.

WOLHUTER, C. P.-Clerk to the registrar of the supreme court, Natal, 5th Nov., 1864; acted on several occasions as registrar; second clerk, registrar of deeds office, February, 1876; clerk, resident magistrate, Pietermaritzburg, city division, 25 May, 1881.

WOLSELEY, 1ST VISCOUNT (created 1885), GARNET JOSEPH WOLSELEY, K.C.M.G. (1870), G.C.M.G. and K.C.B. (1876), G.C.B. (1880), Baron (1882). - Entered the army as ensign, March, 1852; captain, Jan., 1855; major, 90th foot, Mar., 1858; lieut.-colonel in the army, April, 1859; colonel, June, 1865; major-general, 1874; lieut.general, April, 1878; general, 3rd June, 1879; served with the 80th foot in the Burmese war of 1852-53, for which he received a medal; served with distinction in the Crimea and taking of Sebastopol, with the 90th light infantry, and was severely wounded in a sortie, after which he received the Legion of Honour, the 5th class of the Medjidie, &c.; was also at the siege and capture of Lucknow and defence of Alumbagh, when he was made brevet lieut.-colonel; in 1860, served in China on the staff of the quartermaster-general throughout the Chinese campaign of that year, for which he also received a medal and two clasps; appointed deputy quartermaster-general in Canada, Oct., 1867; assistant adjutant-general at head-quarters, 1871; appointed for special service on the Gold Coast in connection with the Ashantee war, August, 1873; brought the Ashantee war to a successful conclusion, and received the thanks of the House of Lords and the House of Commons for his services; was made a G.C.M.G. and a K.C.B., and a major-general by Her Majesty; and inspectorgeneral of auxiliary forces, 1st April, 1874. Specially appointed to administer temporarily the Government of Natal, Feb., 1875, till Sept., 1875; acted as vice-president of the London South African conference, August, 1876;

a member of the Indian council, 1876; appointed administrator of the Island of Cyprus, under the style of Her Majesty's high commissioner and commander-in-chief, 12th July, 1878; governor and commander-in-chief, Natal, and of the Transvaal, and commander of the forces in South Africa, May, 1879, and Her Majesty's high commissioner for South Eastern Africa; quartermaster-general, 27th April, 1880; adjutant-general, 14th March, 1882; commanded the forces in Egypt, with the temporary rank of general, in 1882, and received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and a peerage; and from the Khedive of Egypt the Grand Order of the Osmanich; promoted to general, 1882; commanded the Nile Expedition and other operations in Egypt and the Soudan for the relief of General Gordon and capture of Khartoum, 1884-5; is author of "the Soldier's Pocket Book for Field Service."

WOOD, HARRIE.-Under secretary for mines, New South Wales, 1 Sept., 1874.

WOOD, MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY EVELYN, V.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G. (1882).-Entered the navy 1852, and the army 1855; served in the Crimea; received the V.C. for his gallantry in hunting down the rebels in the Seronge jungles; administered the government of Natal from Feb. to Dec., 1881; commanded the forces in Natal and the Transvaal, and was a member of the royal commission for the settlement of the affairs of the Transvaal, 1881; commanded the 2nd brigade, 2nd division, in Egypt, 1882, and received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament; appointed by the Khedive to the command of the Egyptian troops, 1883.

WOOD, J. J.-Assistant inspector of schools, Jamaica, June, 1868.

WOOD, SIR RICHARD, G.C.M.G. (1879); (K.C.M.G. 1877), C.B. (1865).—Student attaché to the embassy at Constantinople in 1824; was employed in Syria in 1832 and 1833 during its invasion by the Viceroy of Egypt, and was employed on special service with the Turkish army in 1835 and 1836; was again employed in Syria in 1840 and 1841; invested also with full powers from the Turkish government, and was employed in the Lebanon with the combined forces; assisted at the surrender of Beyrout, and the capture of Sidon and Accra; dragoman to the embassy at Constantinople, 8th October, 1834, and consul at Damascus, 15th May, 1841; has obtained Her Majesty's permission to accept and wear the Nishan Iftihar, conferred upon him by the Sultan; has received the English medal for Syria, and the Turkish medal for Acre; agent and consul-general in the regency of Tunis, 30th August, 1855; and was made a C.B., 13th October, 1865; appointed to the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in consideration of the considerable service which he for a long time rendered in connection with the Maltese immigrants introduced into Tunis.

WOOD, THOMAS LETT.-Educated at Westminster School, and Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated M.A., 1846; practised as a special pleader, from 1846 to 1851; was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, 1851; acted as attorneygeneral of Vancouver Island, from 1864 to 1866, when that colony was incorporated with British Columbia; afterwards as solicitor-general of British Columbia, until the abolition of that office in 1867; was a member of the legislative council of British Columbia from 1866 to 1870; chief justice, Bermuda, 1871; judge of the supreme court, Straits Settlements, Aug., 1877.

WOODLOCK, A.-Government medical officer. Trinidad, 1876; appointed to Couva district, 1883. WOODS, E. J. - Architect in chief and engineer of railways, harbours, and jetties, South Australia, 23 Jan., 1878.

WOOLHOUSE, E. G.-Pay and quartermaster, Gold Coast constabulary, 27 Feb., 1874; assistant collector and treasurer, Lagos, 1885.

WORALL, JOSEPH.-Sub-collector of taxes. Tobago, 31st Jan., 1871; second revenue officer, 9th Oct., 1871; deputy-treasurer, comptroller of customs, registrar of shipping and seamen, 28th June, 1874; acting treasurer, &c., 28th Sept., 1874, to 1st May, 1875; notary public, 15th Oct., 1877; colonial revenue officer and registrar of births and deaths for the Isiand of Carriacou, in the goverment of Grenada, January, 1878; chief examining officer, Gold Coast Colony, January, 1880.

WORTHINGTON, G. E.-Writer to the government of Ceylon, Feb., 1859; commissioner of requests and police magistrate Chávakachchéri, Feb., 1861; assistant at Trincomalee to the government agent of the Eastern province, Aug., 1865; assistant government agent, Kégalla, Nov., 1865; district judge, commissioner of court of requests, and police magistrate, Batticaloa, April, 1871; called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1878; acting district judge, Jaffna, 1878; ditto, Galle, 1878: acting agent, Batticaloa, 1879; acting district judge, additional commissioner of court of requests, police magistrate, &c., Kalutara, Dec., 1881.

WRAGG, W. T.-Obtained an open classical exhibition, Lincoln College, Oxford, April, 1863, and an open classical scholarship at Worcester College, May, 1865; graduated with first-class honours, B.A., 1867; elected librarian of Worcester College, October, 1865 (to June. 1867); became a member of the Inner Temple, April, 1866; a writer in the Ceylon civil service, 1st Jan., 1868; acting commissioner of requests, Harrispattu, July, 1868; in charge of the office of the director of the public instruction during the absence of the director, Mar., 1869; police magistrate, Colombo, July, 1869; police magistrate, Panwila, 1869; police magistrate of Gampela, Pussellawa, and Nawalapitya, 1871; district judge, Chilaw, June, 1872; called to the bar by the Inner Temple, Jan., 1879; acting district judge, Kurunegala June, 1879; ditto, Badulla, 1879; puisne judge, Natal, 1883.

WRAY, CECIL.-Entered public works department, Perak government service, 4th Oct., 1881; acting chief clerk of treasury, 1st May, 1882; appointed assistant to magistrate and collector, Kinta district, Perak, 1st Nov., 1882.

WRAY, GEORGE.- Cadet, Straits Settlements, 23rd Nov., 1884.

WRAY, MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY, R.E., C.M.G., 1879. Second lieutenant, royal engineers, Dec, 20th, 1843; lieutenant, April 1st, 1846, and captain, February 17th, 1854; was employed in Western Australia under the colonial office, in connection with the convict service, from Sept., 1851, till May, 1858; was acting comptrollergeneral of convicts from February, 1856, till January, 1858; was appointed, December 15th, 1859; British commissioner for making the boundary be tween Guatemala and British Honduras as defined by the convention of April 30th, 1859, and was employed under the foreign office until 31st July, 1861, was sent on special service to Japan as commanding

WRAY, LEONARD, jun.-Elected member, telegraph engineers, 1877; member, Photographic Society, London, 1872; entered public works department, Perak government service, 13th June, 1881; appointed superintendent, Government Hill Garden, Larut, 1st Jan., 1882; and curator, Perak state museum, 1st Jan., 1883.

WRENFORDSLEY, SIR HENRY THOMAS, KNT., 1883.--Educated in France, and at Trinity College, Dublin; was a member of the old Norfolk circuit, and so practised up to the time when the circuit was abolished under the provisions of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875. In 1868, acted as junior counsel for the privy council office, when the foreign cattle market question was under the consideration of a committee of the house of commons; 1876, appointed to act as deputy county court judge for the metropolitan districts of Marylebone, Brompton, and Brentford; 12 Nov., 1877, second puisne judge, Mauritius; 4 June, 1878, procureur and advocate-general; received, Nov., 1879, the thanks of the unofficial members of the legislative council for his public services in connection with the introduction of the labour law, and the reform of the judicial administration of the colony; chief justice, Western Australia, 1880. Employed on special service to represent the colony of Western Australia at the inter-colonial conference of all the Australian colonies, held at Sydney, 1881; appointed chief justice of Fiji and chief judicial commissioner of the Western Pacific, Oct., 1882; administered the government of Western Australia from 14th Feb. to 2nd June, 1883; at present acting judge supreme court of Tasmania by permission of the secretary of state.

WRIGHT, HON. F. A.-Minister for public works, New South Wales, 5th Jan., 1883, secretary for mines, Oct., 1885.

WRIGHT, G. H. BATESON.-Queen's college, Oxford; B.A., 1875; Denyer theological schol. ; Kennicott Hebrew schol., 1876; Houghton Syriac prize; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew schol., 1877; M.A., 1878; appointed head-master government central school, Hong Kong, Nov., 1881; acting inspector of schools, Feb. to Dec., 1883; author" Critical Translation Book of Job."

WRIGHT, HON. J. ARTHUR, C.E., M.I.C.E., C.E.L., director of public works, engineer in chief and commissioner of railways, Western Australia; is a J.P. and member of the executive and legislative councils.

WRIGHT, R. T.-Inspector of police British Guiana, 24th Mar., 1883; inspector of police, protector of immigrants, and secretary to the board of health, Grenada, 28th April, 1885.

WRIGHT, SYDNEY H.-Clerk in general, post office, Western Australia, Jan., 1880; 3rd clerk, colonial secretary's office, June, 1883; acting secretary to Board of Immigration, 18th Dec., 1883, to 18th Feb., 1884; assistant-registrar, colonial seretary's office, 1885.

WRIGHT, W.--Resident magistrate, Stutterheim division, Cape Colony, I Jan., 1880. WRIGHT, W. D.

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WURTELE, HON. J. S. C.-Treasurer of province of Quebec, Canada; speaker Quebec legislative assembly, 1884.

WYKE, SIR CHARLES LENNOX, G.C.M.G. (1879), K.C.B.-Her Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark, 1867; transferred to Lisbon, 1881; retired, 1884.

WYLDE, ALFRED CARRINGTON.-C.C. and R.M. Port Elizabeth division, Cape Colony, September, 1871; was clerk to the chief justice, 1845 to 1851; clerk of the peace for Port Elizabeth, Nitenhage, &c., 1851 to 1864; C.C. and R.M. Morrel Bay, 1864 to 1869; C.C, and R.M. Swellendam, 1869 to 1871.

WYLDE-BROWNE, HARRY, M.A.-Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1856 and M.A. 1875; clerk of the court of the resident magistrate of the Lower Umkomanzi division, Natal, 1861, and justice of the peace for that division, 1862; second clerk, audit office, 1872, and acting first clerk, 1876; first clerk, Oct., 1881; controller of arms and ammunitions, and J.P. for the colony, 1884.

WYLDE, JOHN F.--Treasurer, Dominica, and member of legislative assembly, 1873; casual receiver and ordnance commissioner, 1873; acted as president from Aug, to Dec., 1876; member of executive council, 1877; treasurer and protector of immigrants, Nevis, March, 1878; member of executive and legislative councils, June, 1878; treasurer and registrar of shipping, Antigua, June, 1879; member of the executive and legislative councils.

XUEREB, L., LL.D.-Judge of Court of Appeal, Malta, 2 Nov., 1880.

YARDLEY, SAMUEL.-Acting-secretary Victorian government agency from date of its establishment in December, 1868, until March, 1879, when he resigned; was appointed secretary of the New South Wales government agency, 1st April, 1879.

YONGE, CAPTAIN H. J., late 61st regt.-Inspector of mines, Du Toits Pan, Bultfontein, Jan., 1874.

YOUL, JAMES ARNDELL, C.M.G. (1874).-Au old and respected Australian colonist, who, after a series of patient and very interesting experiments, succeeded in introducing salmon and trout into the rivers in Tasmania.

YOUNG, CAPTAIN A. H. Famagusta, Cyprus, 1879. YOUNG, HON. C.-Minister of water supply and agriculture, Victoria, 9 July, 1881.

YOUNG, JAMES JUDSON.-Employed from Feb. 1856, to March, 1857, as an extra clerk at Somerset House, in the department of the accountant-gene

ral of the navy; clerk in the office of the colonial secretary, British Columbia, Jan. 1860; also acted as private secretary to Sir J. Douglas, from Sept., 1861, to the date of his retirement in 1864; deputy clerk executive council, British Columbia, 2nd June, 1876, now deputy minister of Finance. YOUNG, WILLIAM DOUGLAS. Educated at Charter House; clerk in government secretary's

office, British Guiana, 1876; private secretary to administrator of the government, from March to August, 1877; private secretary to lieutenantgovernor, April to December, 1879; private secretary to the administrator of government of Trinidad, 1880; private secretary to lieutenantgovernor of British Guiana, Dec., 1881 to May, 1882.