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| {{:unfinished_sketch.jpg?direct&200|}}This unfinished sketch was from a collection most likely drawn by William M-P. Given the age of the woman and that it was kept by the family, it is perhaps one of his step-sisters, Jemina or Louisa.\\ | {{:unfinished_sketch.jpg?direct&200|}}This unfinished sketch was from a collection most likely drawn by William M-P. Given the age of the woman and that it was kept by the family, it is perhaps one of his step-sisters, Jemina or Louisa.\\ |
| ===== Jemina Murray-Prior ===== | ===== Jemina Murray-Prior ===== |
| {{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}} {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album. They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jeminia M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemina Murray Prior?\\ | {{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}} {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album. They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jeminia [**check; my mistake?]** M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemina Murray Prior?\\ |
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| Jemina, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was wealthy, pious and generous enough to leave £200 to set up a charity, ‘The Prior Gift’. This Gift contributed to the salary of the verger at the Holy Trinity Church, Shirley, Southampton, as well for an annual distribution of food tokens to 36 ‘deserving poor’.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age tended to be obsessed with restricting aid to those who were ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on the philanthropists’ purses!)) | Jemina, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was wealthy, pious and generous enough to leave £200 to set up a charity, ‘The Prior Gift’. This Gift contributed to the salary of the verger at the Holy Trinity Church, Shirley, Southampton, as well for an annual distribution of food tokens to 36 ‘deserving poor’.((Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age tended to be obsessed with restricting aid to those who were ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on the philanthropists’ purses!)) |