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| TLM-P generally enjoyed good health until the last years of his life. An exception was in August 1866 when he paid Dr Robert Handcock £1.15.0 for 'attendance on self'.((MLMSS3117/Box 9. According to Thom's calculator, that fee is around $168 in 2023 values.))\\ | TLM-P generally enjoyed good health until the last years of his life. An exception was in August 1866 when he paid Dr Robert Handcock £1.15.0 for 'attendance on self'.((MLMSS3117/Box 9. According to Thom's calculator, that fee is around $168 in 2023 values.))\\ |
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| This is an undated photo, but shows him in old age when he was greying and had gained weight from a more sedentary lifestyle due to his illness.{{:older_tlmp20250420_135053.jpg?300|}} ((Praed Papers, MSS 8379, Box 11/4/7 JOL, SLQ)) | This is an undated photo, but shows him in old age when he was greying and had gained weight from a more sedentary lifestyle due to his illness.{{:older_tlmp20250420_135053.jpg?300|}} ((Praed Papers, MSS 8379, Box 11/4/7 JOL, SLQ))\\ |
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| As shown in the following death certificate, TLM-P died on New Year's Eve in 1892 at 'Whytecliffe', Albion, Brisbane. His funeral notice invited his friends to attend his funeral, 'to move from his late residence, Whytecliffe, Albion THIS (Monday) MORNING at 10'clock for the Toowong Cemetery'.((Murray-Prior file, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum)).The Brisbane Courier (2 January 1893) reported that his funeral attended 'by a very large number of prominent citizens' with a hearse drawn by four horses and five mourning coaches (presumably that five were needed to fit all his family). The Queensland Government House flew their flag at half-mast to honour him.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.70.))\\ | As shown in the following death certificate, TLM-P died on New Year's Eve in 1892 at 'Whytecliffe', Albion, Brisbane. His funeral notice invited his friends to attend his funeral, 'to move from his late residence, Whytecliffe, Albion THIS (Monday) MORNING at 10'clock for the Toowong Cemetery'.((Murray-Prior file, Rathdowney Visitor Information Centre and Historical Museum)).The Brisbane Courier (2 January 1893) reported that his funeral attended 'by a very large number of prominent citizens' with a hearse drawn by four horses and five mourning coaches (presumably that five were needed to fit all his family).((in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 23/5/1)) The Queensland Government House flew their flag at half-mast to honour him.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.70.))\\ |
| \\ TLM-P died from stomach cancer. While his obituary used the cliched 'he peacefully breathed his last',((The Brisbane Courier, 2 January 1893, p.5)) his death certificate reveals that, like so many others at the time given a lack of effective pain relief, a contributing factor to his death was 'exhaustion'. As could be expected, he had been sick some time. In August 1889 he wanted to travel to England to meet up with Nora and help her with her return trip home, but his doctors advised against it.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.69)) Nora was overly-optimistic, writing to her daughters on 19 November 1892 that 'Father doing wonderfully well and if he goes on improving he will soon be out of danger.'((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8)) A. G. Coventry, an unknown poet, wrote //In Memoriam. The Hon. Tho. Lodge Murray-Prior//, mourning him as 'Prior, the cultured gentleman, the last of that brave band/ Whose names shall be as landmarks to the children of our land.' \\ | \\ |
| | TLM-P died from stomach cancer. While his obituary used the cliched 'he peacefully breathed his last',((//The Brisbane Courier//, 2 January 1893, p.5)) his death certificate reveals that, like so many others at the time given a lack of effective pain relief, a contributing factor to his death was 'exhaustion'. As could be expected, he had been sick some time. In August 1889 he wanted to travel to England to meet up with Nora and help her with her return trip home, but his doctors advised against it.((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p.69)) Nora was overly-optimistic, writing to her daughters on 19 November 1892 that 'Father doing wonderfully well and if he goes on improving he will soon be out of danger.'((Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8)) A. G. Coventry, an unknown poet, wrote //In Memoriam. The Hon. Tho. Lodge Murray-Prior//, mourning him as 'Prior, the cultured gentleman, the last of that brave band/ Whose names shall be as landmarks to the children of our land.'((in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 23/5/1))\\ |
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| {{:tlmp_death_poem_cropped_20250415_144026.jpg?400|}}((in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 23?)). | {{:tlmp_death_poem_cropped_20250415_144026.jpg?400|}}((in Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 23?)). |