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| The first was identified as William by Minnie Violet (Vi) M-P.((Provenance: Tom A. & M.T. M-P.)) E. Sterling M-P understood that the second portrait shown here was also a self-portrait by William.((Provenance: E.S.M-P to G.S. M-P to Tom A. M-P.)) As there was no known discussion about these paintings by these two (and it is not known if they even knew each other), it is highly likely that their separate identification of the paintings is correct. For other presumed self-portraits, see [[thomas_prior_s_album|Thomas Prior's album]]\\ | The first was identified as William by Minnie Violet (Vi) M-P.((Provenance: Tom A. & M.T. M-P.)) E. Sterling M-P understood that the second portrait shown here was also a self-portrait by William.((Provenance: E.S.M-P to G.S. M-P to Tom A. M-P.)) As there was no known discussion about these paintings by these two (and it is not known if they even knew each other), it is highly likely that their separate identification of the paintings is correct. For other presumed self-portraits, see [[thomas_prior_s_album|Thomas Prior's album]]\\ |
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| William was Thomas and Eliza Prior's younger son, a soldier and artist. He was born on 18 November 1821 at [[wp>Bruges|Bruges]], then in the Netherlands, now in Belguim.((((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.24.)) He was baptised at [[wp>Bray,_Berkshire|Bray]] in Berkshire on 19 January 1825.((notes written in Thomas Prior’s prayer book, ((Provenance: J. Godden.)) His baptism as a three-year old is further confirmation that his parents were [[wp>Evangelical_Anglicanism|evangelical Anglicans]]. His second name was probably a tribute to his uncle Augustus Skynner.((TLM-P, Diary, 19 August 1882, ML.)) \\ | William was Thomas and Eliza Prior's younger son, a soldier and artist. He was born on 18 November 1821 at [[wp>Bruges|Bruges]], then in the Netherlands, now in Belgium.((((‘Questions to be answered by T.L.M-P’, 6pp Memoranda by the Herald Office, Somerset House, London re Burke’s Colonial Gentry; Thomas Bertram M-P, //Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.24.)) He was baptised at [[wp>Bray,_Berkshire|Bray]] in Berkshire on 19 January 1825.((notes written in Thomas Prior’s prayer book, ((Provenance: J. Godden.)) His baptism as a three-year old is further confirmation that his parents were [[wp>Evangelical_Anglicanism|evangelical Anglicans]]. He was named after his maternal grandfather William Augustus Skynner.\\ |
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| William joined the army as an ensign((lowest rank of commissioned officer in infantry regiments)) in the [[wp>59th_(2nd_Nottinghamshire)_Regiment_of_Foot|59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot]]. As evidence from this time, we have: some loose blank pages, originally part of a book, with the inscription ‘W.A. Murray Prior. 59th Regt.”; //The Kings Regulations and Orders for the Army//, 1 June 1837, with the name in it of 'W A Murray Prior 59th Regt'((Provenance: J. Godden.)); and a 1842 account book with the name W.A. Murray-Prior, Ensign 59th Regiment, Jersey.((in NLA, Ms 7801, Box 6)) ((Note that Tomas Bertram M-P claims William was an Ensign in the 8th Foot Regiment, //Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.24.)) His service with the 59th Foot Regiment is evidenced by his army record for 1841(([British] National Archives, War Office, WO 76/156/35 William Augustus Murray Prior. Regiment: 59th Foot. Date of Service: 1841.)) and his sketchbook as described below.\\ | William joined the army as an ensign((lowest rank of commissioned officer in infantry regiments)) in the [[wp>59th_(2nd_Nottinghamshire)_Regiment_of_Foot|59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot]]. As evidence from this time, we have: some loose blank pages, originally part of a book, with the inscription ‘W.A. Murray Prior. 59th Regt.”; //The Kings Regulations and Orders for the Army//, 1 June 1837, with the name in it of 'W A Murray Prior 59th Regt'((Provenance: J. Godden.)); and a 1842 account book with the name W.A. Murray-Prior, Ensign 59th Regiment, Jersey.((in NLA, Ms 7801, Box 6)) ((Note that Tomas Bertram M-P claims William was an Ensign in the 8th Foot Regiment, //Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty//, ms, n.d., p.24.)) His service with the 59th Foot Regiment is evidenced by his army record for 1841(([British] National Archives, War Office, WO 76/156/35 William Augustus Murray Prior. Regiment: 59th Foot. Date of Service: 1841.)) and his sketchbook as described below.\\ |