Genealogical memoirs of the Scottish House of Christie

THE SCOTTISH HOUSE OF CHRISTIE. 39
became captain on half-pay. He subsequently served as adju-
tant to the 8th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, and in 1872 was
appointed deputy-governor of the convict prisons at Chatham.
In December 1875 he was elected governor of the prisons
of Edinburgh. Captain Christie married, 28th April 1870,
Emma Clementina, fourth daughter of Samuel Piatt, Esq. of
Belmont, deputy-lieutenant of Middlesex, and brother of Sir
Thomas Joshua Piatt, Baron of Exchequer.
He has two sons — Strathnairn James Napier, born 25th
February 1871, and Arthur Ferdinand, born 29th September
1874; also two daughters — Kosa Clementina Constance, born
2d June 1873; and Emma Isobel, born 16th June 1876.
Henry Thomas Christie, second son of Captain James
Christie, was born on the 18th June 1836. An officer in the
service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company,
he is inventor of the patent life raft, an ingenious contriv-
ance for saving life- at sea. He married, 9th August 1870,
Mary Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Samuel Piatt,
Esq. of Belmont, Surrey.
Hugh Reoch, third son of Captain James Christie, born
1844, died 18th February 1855. John Mitchell Christie, the
fourth son, born 1845, holds a constabulary appointment in
the colony of Victoria; he was selected to attend the Duke
of Edinburgh during his Eoyal Highness's visit to the colony ;
the service was acknowledged by a princely gift. Charles
Louis, the fifth son, born in 1848, has engaged in farming.
Alexander Jackson, the sixth son, born in 1850, is accountant
of the Bank of Australasia at Hobart Town, Tasmania.
Margaret Mary Caroline, elder daughter of Captain James
Christie, married, January 1860, William Singleton, M.D.,
surgeon, 47th Regiment, second son of M. Singleton of