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| Robert was admitted to the NSW bar in November 1908; as a barrister, he specialised in probate law. Family lore has it that he did not enjoy that area of practice largely because it so often involved bitter family disputes. It is also understood that he challenged the power of law clerks to distribute briefs - he lost that battle and thereafter the clerks avoided giving him briefs, much to the detriment of his practice.((E.S.M-P, pers. comm. to J. Godden))\\ | Robert was admitted to the NSW bar in November 1908; as a barrister, he specialised in probate law. Family lore has it that he did not enjoy that area of practice largely because it so often involved bitter family disputes. It is also understood that he challenged the power of law clerks to distribute briefs - he lost that battle and thereafter the clerks avoided giving him briefs, much to the detriment of his practice.((E.S.M-P, pers. comm. to J. Godden))\\ |
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| Robert M-P was a political conservative, a prominent Mason and active in his local community of Hunters Hill, becoming its mayor in 1935. During World War II he was employed as a censor.((G.M-P, pers comm, 15 Sept 2020)). Murray Prior Reserve, George Street, Hunters Hill is named after him.{{:20230611_144140.jpg?300|}} {{:20230611_145226.jpg?300|}}((it is an oddly shaped reserve on the waterfront at Figtree. The approach is over-grown with weeds and looks very uninviting. This is probably deliberate as, if you venture down to the waterfront and clamber up a rough path to your right, you get to an open area which adjoining homes appear to use as an extension of their lawns.)) He was also active in community groups. In c.1901, he was the founding Honorary Treasurer of the Gladesville Volunteer Fire Brigade.((J. Boult,//Hunter's Hill 1794-1938, sesqui-centenary celebrations// Hunters Hill Council, 1938, pp.21,32.)) A small medal dated March 1902 has inscribed on the reverse that it was presented to him 'by the G.C.& D. Society for his zealous work as Secretary' - just what was that Society is unknown though G perhaps stands for Gladesville.((Provenance medal: J. Godden)) He was also a founder, President and keen actor for the Hunters Hill Playreading and Dramatic Club.((Gabrielle Shannon, email to J. Godden, 28 August 2014; pers. comm 14 May 2020.)) While in his twenties, he wrote the genealogical history of his family, 'The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors'. \\ | Robert M-P was a political conservative, a prominent Mason and active in his local community of Hunters Hill, becoming its mayor in 1935. During World War II he was employed as a censor.((G.M-P, pers comm, 15 Sept 2020)). Murray Prior Reserve, George Street, Hunters Hill is named after him.{{:20230611_144140.jpg?300|}} {{:20230611_145226.jpg?300|}}((it is an oddly shaped reserve on the waterfront at Figtree. The approach is over-grown with weeds and looks very uninviting. This is probably deliberate as, if you venture down to the waterfront and clamber up a rough path to your right, you get to an open area which adjoining homes appear to use as an extension of their lawns.))\\ |
| | \\ He was also active in community groups. In c.1901, he was the founding Honorary Treasurer of the Gladesville Volunteer Fire Brigade.((J. Boult,//Hunter's Hill 1794-1938, sesqui-centenary celebrations// Hunters Hill Council, 1938, pp.21,32.)) A small medal dated March 1902 has inscribed on the reverse that it was presented to him 'by the G.C.& D. Society for his zealous work as Secretary' - just what was that Society is unknown though G perhaps stands for Gladesville.((Provenance medal: J. Godden)) He was also a founder, President and keen actor for the Hunters Hill Playreading and Dramatic Club.((Gabrielle Shannon, email to J. Godden, 28 August 2014; pers. comm 14 May 2020.)) While in his twenties, he wrote the genealogical history of his family, 'The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors'. \\ |
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| Robert married on 22 April 1908, Estella (Stella) Augusta Herring 1883-17 September 1968.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 25 April 1908, p.10 and death notice, 18 September 1968.)) She was born at Gladesville on 4 March 1883((Birth Certificate in possession of J. Godden.)); her brother Sydney had married Robert's step-niece, a daughter of Florence and Thomas de M.M-P. Stella Herring was reputedly brought up by nannies in an austere fashion, normally seeing her parents only to say goodnight, and at a set and limited period on the weekends.((E.S.M-P, pers.comm to J. Godden.)) Her father was Gerald Herring, a Mayor of Ryde: Herring Road, North Ryde is named after him. On her marriage certificate, Stella gave his occupation as 'gentleman'; Robert described TLM-P as a grazier. After their marriage, Robert and Stella lived at 1 Yerton Avenue, Hunters Hill (the noted artist Nora Heysen lived opposite at no. 2 Yerton Ave). With the death of Robert's sister Ruth M-P, they moved to her home at 17 Madeline Street, Hunters Hill. Click here for [[certificates]]. \\ | Robert married on 22 April 1908, Estella (Stella) Augusta Herring 1883-17 September 1968.((//The Sydney Morning Herald//, 25 April 1908, p.10 and death notice, 18 September 1968.)) She was born at Gladesville on 4 March 1883((Birth Certificate in possession of J. Godden.)); her brother Sydney had married Robert's step-niece, a daughter of Florence and Thomas de M.M-P. Stella Herring was reputedly brought up by nannies in an austere fashion, normally seeing her parents only to say goodnight, and at a set and limited period on the weekends.((E.S.M-P, pers.comm to J. Godden.)) Her father was Gerald Herring, a Mayor of Ryde: Herring Road, North Ryde is named after him. On her marriage certificate, Stella gave his occupation as 'gentleman'; Robert described TLM-P as a grazier. After their marriage, Robert and Stella lived at 1 Yerton Avenue, Hunters Hill (the noted artist Nora Heysen lived opposite at no. 2 Yerton Ave). With the death of Robert's sister Ruth M-P, they moved to her home at 17 Madeline Street, Hunters Hill. Click here for [[certificates]]. \\ |
| Julius was three months old when Nora wrote to Rosa about her 'morbid thoughts and feelings' during pregnancy and what we would now call a mid-life crisis (Nora was then 37 years old):' You have brought a life into an uncertain world of wrecks and disease and dynamite explosions. Your heart’s love is irrevocably invested in that life."((15 June 1884, JOLQ)) As far as childhood diseases went, necessity meant that she had gained considerable confidence, writing to Rosa that 'Fortunately I am now quite as good as a Doctor with baby complaints', which was fortunate given she also assured her that 'as little as I care for having babies, I should like losing those I have still less.'((Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, 21 December 1884, JOLQ.))\\ | Julius was three months old when Nora wrote to Rosa about her 'morbid thoughts and feelings' during pregnancy and what we would now call a mid-life crisis (Nora was then 37 years old):' You have brought a life into an uncertain world of wrecks and disease and dynamite explosions. Your heart’s love is irrevocably invested in that life."((15 June 1884, JOLQ)) As far as childhood diseases went, necessity meant that she had gained considerable confidence, writing to Rosa that 'Fortunately I am now quite as good as a Doctor with baby complaints', which was fortunate given she also assured her that 'as little as I care for having babies, I should like losing those I have still less.'((Nora M-P to Rosa Praed, 21 December 1884, JOLQ.))\\ |
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| Like his brothers Fred and Robert, Julius initially went to school at Bowen House in Brisbane, the preparatory school for Brisbane Grammar.((//The Telegraph// 9 December 1897, p.3.)) While still a schoolboy, he moved with his mother and other siblings to Sydney where they lived in a home called Karlite (or Karlyte) at Gladesville.((//The Maitland Daily Mercury//, 8 January 1909, p.6.)) In 1901, the 17-year-old won two prizes at a Flower Show to raise money for the Anglican church at Gladesville (his sisters, Eileen and Dorothy, entered the table decoration category, but were unsuccessful).((//The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate//, 1 May 1901, p.1.)) In 1909, 24 year-old Julius was described as a stockman in the Gulf of Carpentaria and 'a bit of a mug'. The latter was because, on the train down to Sydney, he was fleeced £4 at cards - understandably, he was 'greatly agitated' at the loss - in 2017 values it was around $548, a lot for a young stockman to lose before even arriving in the city.((//The Maitland Daily Mercury//, 8 January 1909, p.6; //National Advocate// 9 January 1909, p.4.)) He gave his address in Sydney as 'Abalar', Darling Point Road, Darling Point.((//Cairns Morning Post//, 1 Feb 1909, p.2.))\\ | Like his brothers Fred and Robert, Julius initially went to school at Bowen House in Brisbane, the preparatory school for Brisbane Grammar.((//The Telegraph// 9 December 1897, p.3.)) While still a schoolboy, he moved with his mother and other siblings to Sydney where they lived in a home called Karlite (or Karlyte) at Gladesville.((//The Maitland Daily Mercury//, 8 January 1909, p.6.)) In 1901, the 17-year-old won two prizes at a Flower Show to raise money for the Anglican church at Gladesville (his sisters, Eileen and Dorothy, entered the table decoration category, but were unsuccessful).((//The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate//, 1 May 1901, p.1.)) He was listed in the Wise Directory of 1907 and 1908 as a 'farmer' living at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton,_Queensland|Clifton]].((accessed through Ancestry.com.au)) In 1909, 24 year-old Julius was described as a stockman in the Gulf of Carpentaria and 'a bit of a mug'. The latter was because, on the train down to Sydney, he was fleeced £4 at cards - understandably, he was 'greatly agitated' at the loss - in 2017 values it was around $548, a lot for a young stockman to lose before even arriving in the city.((//The Maitland Daily Mercury//, 8 January 1909, p.6; //National Advocate// 9 January 1909, p.4.)) He gave his address in Sydney as 'Abalar', Darling Point Road, Darling Point.((//Cairns Morning Post//, 1 Feb 1909, p.2.))\\ |
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| Sometime after this widely reported incident, he went to the Kimberleys in Western Australia. It was a popular destination for Queensland graziers eager for new land, such as the famed Durack family.((Chris Owen, 'Every mother's son is guilty': policing the Kimberley frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905, Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2016, pp.15,97, 104-05.)) Julius's sister Ruth wrote that he had been a special constable in the north of Western Australia to deal with Aboriginal resistance which took the form of cattle spearing and murder.((M-P papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 4, folder 26.)) In 1911, he was part of an exploring expedition to collect zoological and botanical specimens as well as discovering land that was then unknown to the white settlers. The Expedition initially consisted of three experts: the leader was Perth Museum's zoologist, Charles Conigrave. He was accompanied by Lachlan McKinnon and Roy Collison, both 'zoologists and passionate ornithologists'. Julius and three other bushmen joined the party at Wyndham: the others were two members of the native police known as Killy and Quart-Pot and another white man, Jack Wilson. The Expedition left Wyndham in June 1911; the three leaders returning to Perth in March 1912. Their discovery of land suitable for cattle meant they were feted on their arrival back in Perth, with over 100 newspaper articles published about the expedition. Today as much interest is in their recording of Aboriginal art. The outcomes of the Expedition included giving European names to two rivers and identifying a 'new', at least to the white settlers, form of Indigenous art, that of ground figures.((Michael Rainsbury, //Rock Art Research//, vol 33, no. 1, pp.99-102)) There are two photos of Julius and other members of the exploring expedition held by the National Archives of Australia. Click on [[https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd090/090191PD.jpg|Julius second from left back row]] and [[http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd090/090190PD.jpg|Julius far left]].\\ | Sometime after this widely reported incident, he went to the Kimberleys in Western Australia. It was a popular destination for Queensland graziers eager for new land, such as the famed Durack family.((Chris Owen, 'Every mother's son is guilty': policing the Kimberley frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905, Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2016, pp.15,97, 104-05.)) Julius's sister Ruth wrote that he had been a special constable in the north of Western Australia to deal with Aboriginal resistance which took the form of cattle spearing and murder.((M-P papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 4, folder 26.)) In 1911, he was part of an exploring expedition to collect zoological and botanical specimens as well as discovering land that was then unknown to the white settlers. The Expedition initially consisted of three experts: the leader was Perth Museum's zoologist, Charles Conigrave. He was accompanied by Lachlan McKinnon and Roy Collison, both 'zoologists and passionate ornithologists'. Julius and three other bushmen joined the party at Wyndham: the others were two members of the native police known as Killy and Quart-Pot and another white man, Jack Wilson. The Expedition left Wyndham in June 1911; the three leaders returning to Perth in March 1912. Their discovery of land suitable for cattle meant they were feted on their arrival back in Perth, with over 100 newspaper articles published about the expedition. Today as much interest is in their recording of Aboriginal art. The outcomes of the Expedition included giving European names to two rivers and identifying a 'new', at least to the white settlers, form of Indigenous art, that of ground figures.((Michael Rainsbury, //Rock Art Research//, vol 33, no. 1, pp.99-102)) There are two photos of Julius and other members of the exploring expedition held by the National Archives of Australia. Click on [[https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd090/090191PD.jpg|Julius second from left back row]] and [[http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/images/pd090/090190PD.jpg|Julius far left]].\\ |