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| ====== Thomas (Tom) Prior MA ====== | ====== Thomas (Tom) Prior MA ====== |
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| When Tom Prior died, he was lamented very much as a public benefactor. The inscription on his grave read:\\ | When Tom Prior died, Ireland lost a public benefactor. The inscription on his grave read:\\ |
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| 'Sacred to the memory of Thomas Prior Esq., who spent a long life in unwearied endeavours to promote the welfare of his country. Every manufacturer, every branch of husbandry, will declare this truth. Every useful institution will lament its Friend and Benefactor. He died alas! too soon for Ireland. October the 21st, 1751. Aged 70.'((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, pp.60-61.)) | 'Sacred to the memory of Thomas Prior Esq., who spent a long life in unwearied endeavours to promote the welfare of his country. Every manufacturer, every branch of husbandry, will declare this truth. Every useful institution will lament its Friend and Benefactor. He died alas! too soon for Ireland. October the 21st, 1751. Aged 70.'((Teddy Fennelly, //Thomas Prior. His Life, Times and Legacy//, Ireland: Arderin Publishing, 2001, pp.60-61.)) |
| This photo of a bust of Tom M-P was taken by [[five_children|Nora Boyd]] when she visited Dublin. Presumably it is the one that was sculptured for the Dublin Society by John Van Nost the younger, who created Prior's memorial in Christ Church Cathedra.((Fennelly, //Thomas Prior//, pp.63,74.)) | This photo of a bust of Tom M-P was taken by [[five_children|Nora Boyd]] when she visited Dublin. Presumably it is the one that was sculptured for the Dublin Society by John Van Nost the younger, who created Prior's memorial in Christ Church Cathedra.((Fennelly, //Thomas Prior//, pp.63,74.)) |
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| **4.** Tom M-P recalls another statue of Tom Prior in a chapel opposite Trinity College – a quest for the next person who visits Dublin?\\ | **4.** Tom A. M-P recalls another statue of Tom Prior in a chapel opposite Trinity College – a quest for the next person who visits Dublin?\\ |
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| **5.** Another memorial is the Thomas Prior Hall, once part of the Royal Dublin Society. As at March 2018, it was part of Clayton Hotel in Ballsbridge, a Dublin suburb. Only the front of the original building, with its name, survives.((see {{http://www.thomaspriorhall.com/history/}} Information courtesy Geoffrey M-P)) | **5.** Another memorial is the Thomas Prior Hall, in the Dublin suburb of Ballsbridge. The building was purchased by the Royal Dublin Society in the 1970s and subsequently renamed Prior House.((Fennelly, //Thomas Prior//, pp.63,74.)) It was later sold and, as at March 2018, it is part of Clayton Hotel. Only the front of the original building, with its name, survives.((see {{http://www.thomaspriorhall.com/history/}} Information courtesy Geoffrey M-P))\\ |
| | {{:scan_20180416_thom_prior_house.jpg?300|}}\\ (Above) Photo of author in front of Thomas Prior House, August 1985.\\ |
| ==== Death and founding the Murray-Priors ==== | ==== Death and founding the Murray-Priors ==== |
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