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To Mr. and Mrs. Loring were born three chil- dren : two who died in childhood; and Fanny, who is now the wife of Henry S. Bingham, of Bennington, by whom she has two children, Lor- ing, who is in business in Syracuse, New York, and Ella A., at home. Mr. Loring was a mem- ber of the Congregational church, to which his wife also belongs, and his Christian principles permeated his long career, making him a man of sterling worth, well deserving the confidence of his fellow townsmen. For a number of years he served as trustee of his village and was active and influential in support of all measures which he believed would contribute to the general good. He served as justice of the peace, and his de- cisions were strictly fair and impartial. He was also chief of police for a number of years. So- cially he was identified with Mount Anthony Lodge, F. & A. M., and for a long period was connected with the order of the Eastern Star, holding office in both branches of Masonry.
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THE GRAVES FAMILY.
CREST, COAT OF ARMS AND MOLTORS.
The distinctive arms of the Graves family are "Gu. an eagle displayed or. ducally crowned arg." The crest : ".A demi-eagle displayed and crased or. enfiled round the body and below the wings by a ducal coronet arg." By the alliance of
COAT OF ARMS.
members of the family with other families, and the marshalling of different arms in the same com- position, variations are frequently found; they almost invariably retain, however, as quarter- ings, the distinctive arms of the family, the eagle displayed or.
Various mottoes have been adopted, some of
which have been used by the members of the family exclusively, and others by this and other families. The following are the mottoes used, as far as can be ascertained, and translations : "Aquila non captat Muscas," or "Aquila non capit Muscas ;" (The Eagle does not catch flies). "Graves disce Mores ;" (Learn grave manners). "(ravis dum suavis;" (Grave while suave). "Spes mea in Dio;" (My hope is in God). "Dum Spiro spero;" (While I breathe I hope). "Deo non fortuna ;" (Through God, not by chance). "Esse quam videri:" (To be rather than to seem). "Huic habeo non tibi;" (I hold to this one, not to thee). "Per sinum Codanum ;" (Through the Gulf of Coda- nus). "Spero infestis metuo secundis :" (I hope in adversity, and fear in pros- perity). "Superna quarite ;" (Seek things above). "Superna quaero;" (I seek heav- enly things). "Suprema quaero;" (I seek the highest).
THE GRAVES FAMILY IN ENGLAND.
The family of Graves is one of the most ancient in England. It went in with the Norman army, and its members have been De Grevis, De Greves, Greve, Grave, Greaves, Greeves and Graves. In the portion of Doomsday Book for Lin- colnshire it is recorded :
"In Horbelinge hbt Greve III car t-ra ad gld t-ra ad IIII car-In Draitone Hundret hbt Greve VI bov t-ra ad gld t-ra ad VI bov." In Latin extended : "In Horbelinge habet Greve quatuor carucatas terrae ad geldam; terra ad quatuor carucas. In Draitone Hundred habet Greve sex bovatas terrae ad gel- dam : terra ad sex bovas." Translated : In Horbelinge Greve holds four caru- cates (about 400 acres) of land, for which he pays geld (civil tax levied for sup- port of the state ) ; there is land for four ploughs ;" and "In Draitone Hundred Greve holds six bo- vates (about 75 acres) of land for which he pays geld ; there is land for six oxen."
The family lived in early days in that part of England now known as counties Lincoln, Not-
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tingham, Derby and York, occupying the north- ern part of the three first named and the south- ern part of York. The first recorded family seat was known as Greves or Greaves, in the parish of Beeley, near Chatsworth, in the north- ern part of Derbyshire, and a few miles from the southerly boundary of York, where the family resided as early as the reign of Henry III (1216- I272). John Greaves, a descendant in the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1602), became a purchaser of "Beeley," a quaint old house with an enclosed court, on the hill above Beeley, and now known as "Hilltop," and it was occupied as a family seat until about 1664, when it was sold to John, Earl of Rutland.
In the little church at Beeley, within the altar rails, is a fine flat stone on which are cut the coat of arms of the family, the motto "Superna Quaero," and the following inscription :
"This marble stone doth presse but not op- presse the body of John Greaves of Greaves, Esq., who always was a true son of the church of Eng- land, merciful and charitable to the poor, patient and courageous in a tedious sickness, and at length, being full of faith and hope, did exchange this troublesome world for a better, upon the 13th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1694. Ann, his wife, b. of Geo. Bird, of Stenly Hall, Gent., ob. May. 25, 1700."
From the visitations of Derbyshire, in the College of Arms, and from Mss. in the British Museum the following descent of the early founders of the family is extracted: (I). John de la Greves. (2). Hugo de la Grevis, vixit temp. Henry III (1216-1272). (3) William de la Grevis, filius Hugonis, temp. Edward I ( 1272- 1307). (4) Egidrus de la Greves, Letitia uxor ejus, 1316. (5) Thomas de la Greves, filius Egi- dri, temp. Edward III (1327-1377). (6) Jo- hannes de la Grevis, fil. Thomas, fil. Egidri, temp. Edward III. (7) John. (8) William and wife Agnes. (9) John, 1497; buried December 30, 1546. (10) John of Greaves; buried December 30, 1595. (II) John of Greaves and Beeley. (12) John of Greaves, Beeley and Woodhouse, baptized September 17, 1581, and living 1634; had eight sons and three daughters. (13) John of Beeley; buried February 6, 1673-74. (14) John of Stanton Hall and Biggin; born in 1644; died without issue, October 13, 1694.
The family had early scattered over the sur- rounding country. As early as 1574 members of it are mentioned as at Kings Norton in Wor- cester county, where, in the chapel, is found a large monument to Sir Richard Greves, Kt., with crest; he died in 1631. In the rolls of the Exchequer Lay Subsidies for Buckingham and Northampton counties, there are found taxes laid against different members of the family as early as 1522, and from that time forward. John Graves was a resident of Cleckheaton, in the parish of Birstall, and Wapentake of Morley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as early as the time of Edward IV (1461-1483), and from him (lescended several of the most prominent fami- lies in Great Britain.
The following is the lineage of the family of Graves of Mickleton Manor: (I). John Graves, of Cleckheaton, Edward IV (1461-1483). (2). Robert, of Cleckheaton, Henry VII ( 1485-1509).
(3). John, of Beamsley, in West Riding of Yorkshire, born in 1513, settled in London at the age of eighty years ; died there in 1616, at the age of one hundred and three years; buried in St. Martin's, Ludgate. There is a fine portrait of him by Cornelius Janson on a panel in Mickleton House, painted when he was in his one hundred and second year, and an engraving of him when one hundred and two years old in Nash's "His- tory of Worcestershire." He had brothers, Will- iam of Cleckheaton and Hugh of York. Wife, daughter of Mensier, of Creke, County Norfolk.
(4). Richard, of London, born 1572 ; died in April, 1626; buried in St. Martin's, Ludgate. Wife was eldest daughter of William Gourney, of Moore Hall, Yardley, Hertfordshire. He had brother John, rector of Colemore, Hampshire, who was father of John, Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, and Sir Edward, physician to Charles II, created baronet in 1645.
(5). Richard, born September 6, 1610. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and receiver general of Middlesex in the time of the Commonwealth : purchased the manors of Ashton and Weston with the royalty of Kiftsgate Hundred, in Gloucester- shire in 1654, and the manor of Mickleton in 1656; died May 9, 1669 : buried in St. James, Clerken- well. First wife, Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Bates, of London, Gent .; second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Robinson, Esq., governor of
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Gravesend and Tilburyport. He had nineteen children : six sons, of whom only one survived youth, and thirteen daughters. His brother, Colonel William Graves, was the founder of the family in Ireland.
(6). Samuel, of Mickleton, Esq., only sur- viving son of Richard, born August 24, 1649; died September 9, 1708; buried at Mickleton. Wife, Susanna, daughter of Admiral Richard Swann. They had six sons and three daughters; none left descendants, except the eldest son.
(7). Richard, of Mickleton, Esq., "the Anti- quary ;" portrait given in Nash's "Worcester- shire." Corrected dates of birth and death, April 22, 1677, and September 17, 1729. Wife, Eliza- beth, daughter of Thomas Morgan, and widow of Captain Williamson.
(8). Morgan, of Mickleton, Esq., born Novem- ber 9, 1708. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn ; died De- cember 26, 1771, buried at Mickleton. Wife, Anne, daughter of James Walwyn, of Long- worth, in Herefordshire. He had brother Rich- ard, educated at Pembroke College, Oxford ; elected fellow of "All Souls" in 1736, rector of Claverton, in Somerset, and author of "The Spir- itual Quixote ;" died November 23, 1804. Also brother, Charles Gasper, Rector of Tissington, Derbyshire, said to have been the original of "The Spiritual Quixote." Also brother, Danvers, who died in Persia in 1752.
(9). Walwyn, of Mickleton, Esq., born July 20, 1744; died in 1813, without issue. Wife, Sarah Fletcher, died 1811 ; he was succeeded by his brother, Richard Morgan.
(10). Richard Morgan, D. D., successively rector of Hindlip, Worcestershire, vicar of Mick- leton, and vicar of Malvern. Succeeded his brother at Mickleton, and died in 1815, aged sixty-three. He had brother, Captain Danvers, of the Sixty-seventh Regiment, who died in the West Indies, 1789, aged thirty-six, and four sis- ters. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Shermor, of Hannington, county Wilts : she died in 1832.
(II). Morgan, Rev., of Mickleton, born June I, 1778; died, unmarried, November 25, 1819, and was succeeded by his brother John.
(12). John, of Mickleton, Esq., born June 5, 1780. Lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regi- ment, died 1818. His wife was Anne, daughter
of John Thomas, of Penryn, County Cornwall. He had a sister, Elizabeth, who married Charles Gray, who took the name of Graves, and has de- scendants living. John Graves left no sons. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir John Max- well Steele, Bart., who took the name of Graves, in 1863. Their only child was a daughter, Frances Elizabeth, who married R. S. Brown, who took the name of Graves. On the death of the eldest daughter, her husband, daughter and her husband, the property reverted to Mary John Graves, the youngest daughter of John Graves. She was born in 1818, married Maxwell Hamilton, Esq., of Dublin, who died in 1867. She died February 4, 1885, and the head of the house is now their son. (13). Sidney Graves Hamilton, of Mickle- ton, and now of Kiftsgate Court, Esq., born June 13, 1855.
The Graves family in Ireland was founded by Colonel William Graves, son of Richard Graves (No. 4 in Mickleton family pedigree). He was sent to Ireland as colonel commanding a regiment of horse in the parliamentary army in 1649 or 1650. He was granted lands at Bally- mack and Burnchurch, County Kilkenny, and previous to the restoration he disposed of his lands in Ireland and returned to England, leaving two of his sons in Ireland. One settled in the north, and from him the family of Lord Graves is said to have descended; the other settled near Limerick, in the south, and his family is given below.
(I). Colonel William Graves, son of Rich- ard Graves, of London, fourth in Mickleton fam- ily. (2). Henry, born in November, 1652. He was given the name of "Claymore" or "Harry of the Long Sword," as he never went abroad without his formidable blade, not even when going to church at Croom, where he attended, "for fear of the hostility of the Irish papists," as he said. He held at Greybridge. (3). John, son of Henry, born in 1682: sheriff of Limerick in 1720. (4) Rev. James, son of John, born November 18, 1713; vicar of Kilfinnan, County Limerick. He died November 21, 1783, in the parish he served for thirty-eight years. His tombstone bears the inscription : "Let the voices of his friends and his flock speak his character." He had a brother Henry, who was father of Rev. Henry Meggs Graves, and grandfather of General Graves of
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Ireland. Another brother was Richard Graves, high sheriff of Limerick and Waterford, who died in 1815.
(5). Thomas, son of Rev. James, Very Rev. Dean of Ardfert, and then of Connor, born March 3, 1745 ; married March 8, 1771, Anne Dunlevie. He died September 30, 1828. His brothers were: James William Graves, paymaster of the Fifth Regiment; Rev. John Graves, rec- tor of Ballingarry; Very Rev. Richard Graves, born October 1, 1763, fellow of Trin- ity College, Dublin, in 1786, who, in 1807, pub- lished his important work on "The Pentateuch," and in 1813 was made professor of divinity in the Dublin University, and dean of Ardagh. Rev. Richard Graves married, August 1, 1787, Eliza Mary Drought, daughter of Rev. James Drought, F. T. C. D., and professor of divinity, and had sons, Rev. Richard Hastings Graves and Robert James Graves, the famous Dublin physician, whose reputation has become world-wide, and whose writings have been translated into many languages, and who revolutionized the old system of bleeding and starving fevers, and said that his epitaph should be : "He fed fevers." Dr. Graves was the father of : Rev. Richard Drought Graves, born in 1832, died January 5, 1871. Colonel Will- iam Grogan Graves, of Cloghan Castle, Kings county, J. P., born February 14, 1836; married in 1877 Georgianna Marshall, of Baronne Court, Tipperary, and had children, Robert Kennedy Grogan Graves, born January 1, 1878, and Will- iam Geoffrey Plantaganet Graves, born May 22, 1881; Colonel Graves died February 17, 1890. Georgianna Arabella, married in 1857 Edward Blackburn, Q. C., of Rathfarnham Castle, third son of the Right Hon. Lord Chancellor Black- burn. Elizabeth married Major Armstrong. Florence married Major Parsons, R. A.
(6). Colonel James William, of the Eigli- teenth Royal Irish Regiment, born 1774. (See "Burke's Landed Gentry" for children. (7). John Crosbie, born July 2, 1776; died January 13, 1835; married in 1806, Helena, daughter of Rev. Robert Perceval, and had sons: John Thomas, F. R. S. and B. L. Rev. Robert Perce- val, who married Helen Bellasis, of Windermere, England; he was rector at Windermere, and in- timate friend of Wordsworth and Mrs. Hemans ; he was biographer of Sir W. Rowan Hamilton,
the famous mathematician; he spent the last quarter of a century at Dublin, and was vice warden of Alexandra College, Dublin, James Per- ceval, who married Georgianna Lees ; Right Rev. Charles Graves, lord bishop of Limerick.
(8). Right Rev. Charles, D. D., lord bishop of Limerick, F. R. S., LL. D., of Oxford, for- merly fellow Trinity College, Dublin. Residence, the Palace, Henry street, Limerick, and "Park- nasilla," in Kenmare, County Kerry. His lord- ship was born November 12, 1812; educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; B. A., 1835 ; M. A. and fellow, 1836; D. D., 1851 ; professor of mathe- matics Dublin University, 1843-62 ; dean of Clon- fert, 1864-66, in which latter year he was conse- crated bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. He married September 15, 1840, Selina, daugh- ter of John Cheyne, M. D., physician general to the forces in Ireland. He had children as fol- lows: John Cheyne, B. A., Bengal Civil Service, born November 16, 1841, died September 9,1868. Alfred Perceval, M. A., H. M's inspector of schools. Arnold Felix, M. A., barrister at law, who had children, Perceval and Geraldine Per- ceval. Charles Larcom, M. A., born December 15, 1856; married July 30, 1889, Alice Emma Gray, sister of Sir Edward Gray, M. P .; one son Cecil, born March 6, 1892. Robert Wynd- ham, H. M.'s consul at Erzeroum, born in 1857. Helena Cecelia, married Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lyttleton Powys, and died June 27, 1886. Rosa- mund Selina, married July 3, 1877, Rear Admiral Richard Massie Blomfield, late R. N. Augusta Caroline. Ida Margaret, married September 14, 1885, Captain Sir Edward Poore, 4th Bart., R. N.
(9) Alfred Perceval, M. A., H. M.'s in- spector of schools, born July 22, 1846; married December 29, 1874, Jane, eldest daughter of James Cooper Cooper, Esq., and has issue: Philip Perceval, born February 25, 1876, of Har- leybury College; Richard Massie, born Septem- ber 14, 1880; Alfred Perceval, born December 14, 1881 ; Mary, born June 6, 1877; Susan Win- throp Savatier, born March 23, 1885. Alfred Perceval married December 30, 1891, Amalie Elizabeth Sophie, eldest daughter of Professor Heinrich Von Ranke, M. D., of Munich, and by her has issue: Clarissa Janie, born November 29, 1892; Rosaleen-Louise, born March 7, 1894.
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Mr. Graves is a poet of acknowledged high stand- ing, and has written many charming poems and ballads. He resides at Taunton, Iengland.
Lineage of Lord Graves, Baron of Gravesend, County Londonderry, Ireland, and of Sir Graves Sawle, Baronet: (1) Colonel William Graves, son of Richard Graves, of London, fourth in Mickleton family. (2) James, descendant of Colonel William ; married Miss Herdman, daughter, and co-heir of Sir John Herdman Knt., of Stannington, and died leaving, among others, Samuel, married Miss Moore and had issue; Thomas, barrister at law; James, died unmarried ; Rev. John, of Castle Dawson, in Ire- land, married Jane, daughter of John Hudson, Esq., and had sons. Rear Admiral Samuel Graves, R. N., Admiral John, R. N., Sir Thomas, K. B., vice amiral of the blue, a highly dis- tinguished naval officer, second in command to Lord Nelson at Copenhagen, died in 1814, and IV, Admiral Richard, R. N .; the fourth son of Samuel was Admiral Samuel, R. N., (one son and four grandsons admirals in this family.) The second son of Rev. John was Admiral John, married April 20, 1786, Elizabeth, daughter, and eventually sole heir of Richard Sawle, Esq., and died May 16, 1811, leaving a son and suc- cessor, Sir Joseph-Sawle Graves Sawle, born December 10, 1793, created baronet, March 22, 1836; father of present baronet, Sir Charles Brune Graves Sawle, born October 16, 1816. The second son of James was, (3) Rear Admiral Thomas, of Thanckes, Cornwall, born in 1680; married in 1713, Miss Warne, and in 1723, Eliza- beth, daughter of Gilbert Budgell, D. D., of St. Thomas's, near Exeter, and had issue; William, one of the masters in chancery, and (4) Admiral Thomas, elevated to the peerage October 24, 1795, as Lord Graves, baron of Gravesend, Coun- ty Londonderry. His lordship married in 1771, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Peere Williams, Esq., Chadleigh, in Devonshire. He died February 9, 1802, and was succeeded by, (5) Lord Thomas North, born May 28, 1775; married June 27, 1803, Lady Mary Paget, young- est daughter of Henry, first Earl of Uxbridge. He died February 7, 1830, and was succeeded by (6) Lord William Thomas, born April 18, 1804, married August 11, 1829, Sophie Theresa, daughter of General Berthier, and relict of Gen -ยท
eral Count Bruyere. His second wife was Louise Adele Malene. He died March 20, 1870, and was sneceeded by the present (7) Lord Clarence Edward, born June 7, 1847, married May 8, 1870, Katherine Frederica, eldest daugh- ter of Sir Thomas W. C. Murdock, K. C. M. G.
Another branch of the family in Ireland sprang from Richard Graves, brother of Rev. James, fourth in the Colonel William Graves family: (4)Richard, high sheriff of Limerick and Waterford, died in 1815. (5) Anthony, who had brother James, father of Rev. Richard, and grandfather of Rev. James, vicar of Stonyford. (6) William, J. P. (7) Anthony Elly, who had brother Samuel Robert, late M. P. for Liverpool, who was father of William S., Robert Elly and Herbert A., of Liverpool; he also had brother J. Palmer, who had sons George P., Charles, Robert, and three others, names not known. An- thony Elly married Harriet Houghton, sister of Elizabeth Houghton, who married his brother Samuel Robert. (8) William Robert, M. D., Trinity College, Dublin, has brothers Samuel Houghton, M. A., Trinity College, Cambridge, barrister at law, F. P. Graves, R. N., and An- thony Elly.
The important families of Greaves, of May- field Hall, County Stafford; Greaves of Page Hall and Elmsall Lodge, County Bucks ; and oth- ers, trace their descendants from the ancient Derbyshire family. A branch of the family set- tled in York at a very early day. Hugh, brother of John of Beamsley, third in the Mickleton fam- ily, was M. P. for York in several-parliaments, sheriff of York in 1559; M. P. of the same, 1570-71. and lord mayor of York in 1578. John was lord mayor of York in 1570, married daugh- ter of Gervase Greenhurst, of Greenhurst Coun- ty, Lancaster, and had sons : John, Jr., Hugh, William, Thomas and Anthony. John, Jr., became mayor of Hull in 1598, and was the father of sons: Hugh; Thomas, who had sons John and Thomas; Benjamin; John. Anthony, son of John, mayor of York, was sword-bearer of York. He had a son Thomas.
Many of the descendants of the different branches of the family went, from time to time, to London and other cities in Great Britain, and to the colonies, and notably to the American colonies, in the score of years from 1629 to 1649.
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The work of preparing a general genealogy of the Graves family in England has never been undertaken, but when it shall be, the results will be as gratifying to those of the English family as they will be to the descendants in this country. The family in Great Britain has produced men distinguished as scholars, divines, military and naval commanders, barristers and business men, a vigorous and loyal race, but not a self-seeking one, and the same can be said of the American branches.
THE GRAVES FAMILY IN AMERICA.
John C. Graves, of Buffalo, New York, here- by certifies that he has been engaged for more than twenty-five years in compiling the gen- ealogy of the Graves family in America; that he personally has visited and examined the pub- lic records in England, and most of the places in New England, where the different branches of the family were located, and has had skilled gen- ealogists at work for him in England and dif- ferent portions of this country, and as the re- sult of his investigations has found that most of the name of Graves in this country have de- scended from the following named early settlers who are all descendants of the old English fam- ily, of which a sketch is given in the volume of Graves Genealogy, published by the under- signed in 1896. The first settler in this coun- try was CAPTAIN THOMAS GRAVES, who came over from London, England, in the ship Mary and Margaret, in 1607. He settled on the James river, Virginia, in James City county. In 1624 he had a large plantation on the Eastern Shore, was representative of "Smythes Hundred" in Virginia assembly, which convened at James- town, July 30, 1619, the first of American legis- lative bodies, "the House of Burgesses." He was justice of the peace in Accomac, afterwards Northampton county, in 1631; vestryman in 1635 ; was commissioner to build a fort at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1630-32. His de- scendants live principally in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky.
SAMUEL GRAVES settled at Lynn, Massa- chusetts, about 1630, and took up property on the turnpike west of Floating Bridge, and from him the neighborhood has been called, until recently,
"Graves End." He was a farmer and a man of wealth. In 1635 he gave to the colony about one thousand five hundred dollars.
THOMAS GRAVES settled at Hartford, Connec- ticut, before 1645, and removed to Hatfield, Massachusetts, in 1661. The genealogy of this branch is given in Vol. I of Graves Genealogy.
DEACON GEORGE GRAVES settled in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1639; he was one of the or- iginal proprietors, and was appointed in 1644 to inspect all linen and woolen goods.
JOHN GRAVES, brother of Deacon George, came to this country about 1635, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first official record to be found of him was in 1643, when he became one of the petitioners to the general court. He was master of the Tryall, the first American ship, in 1648.
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS GRAVES settled in Charlestown. Massachusetts, about 1637. He was of the family of ship-builders and mariners, of London, England; was mate of the "Talbot, which brought Higginson to Salem, Massachus- etts, in 1629, and master of various vessels ply- ing between the old and new world until he was made real admiral in the English navy, and was killed in battle with the Dutch, in 1653.
WILLIAM GRAVES, of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1659, and of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1701. His descendants were prominent in the early his- tory of New Hampshire and Maine.
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