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-====== Character, Possessions, Photos======
+====== Character, Possessions, Photos, Death ======
 TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like.
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 TLM-P's will is also revealing for its attempt to provide for all his family and, to modern eyes, his attempt to continue to control his family. Given he had stomach cancer, he knew he was dying, and signed his will on 5 May, seven months before he died, with three codicils dated in the weeks and days before he finally succumbed on 31 December 1892. The complexity of providing for all eventualities, and leaving money in trust for numerous dependants, meant that the trustees had to go to court to get a ruling on the will's legal meaning. This first occurred in October 1905, and then in 1940, after the death of his daughter Dorothy. The latter, to determine what would happen to her share of the trust, amounted to 10 foolscap typed pages on the legal meaning of the word 'surviving'!((Legal opinion re Trusts of the Will of Thomas Lodge Murray Prior Decd, 11 October 1905 and 11 June 1940, J. Godden's copy.)) More seriously, the Trust ran into difficulties after the death of Thomas de M. M-P with the family taking the two trustees (Charles Barton and George Eddington) to court in 1905. While the step-siblings and Nora were united, the court case represented an enormous conflict for Nora as Charles Barton was her brother. As well, costs were borne by the estate.((The Supreme Court of Queensland, No. 166 of 1905, 3 November 1905, J. Godden's copy.)) In the 1930s, another great depression hit the value of the trust, but nevertheless a list of his investments as at 12 June 1931 reveals his estate was worth in total £33,683 (roughly $3,020,242 in 2017 values). This sum included an advance to Egerton of £2,275; mortgages to Julius (£2350), Meta Hobbs (£500) and Lizzie Jardine (£100) as well as the purchase of a "Mary St Property" for £11,000.((Union Trustee Company, Brisbane, Estate of Thomas Lodge Murray Prior Deceased. List of Investments at Face Value, 12 June 1931. J. Godden's copy.))\\
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-{{:tlm-p_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlmp_in_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlm-p_head.jpg?300|}} The first two photos from TLM-P's album((Provenance: J. Godden)) were taken in Melbourne; the last in Sydney. The images are designed to reveal a prosperous man who has succeeded in his adopted land. For more photos of him, click on [[TLM-P photographs]]. In 1882, he recorded that his trip to England had resulted in him putting on weight and when he weighed himself a bit later he was 12 stone 7 or 8 lbs.((TLM-P, Diary, 9 June 1882))
+{{:tlm-p_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlmp_in_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlm-p_head.jpg?300|}} The first two photos from TLM-P's album((Provenance: J. Godden)) were taken in Melbourne; the last in Sydney. The images are designed to reveal a prosperous man who has succeeded in his adopted land. **For more photos of him, click on [[TLM-P photographs]]**.
 ==== Furniture and other possessions====
 The beautiful furniture that TLM-P owned reveals that he shared his father's tastes for fine art and household items. It also supports the interpretation that TLM-P was motivated by his determination to restore his family's gentry status. The next photo is of his intricately carved Italian cabinet,((Provenance:T.A. & M.T. M-P)) the twin of which is in Brisbane's Tattersalls Club. It is said to have been imported to Australia by the Italian architect Mr Andrea Strombuco in c. 1885 for his home in Albion. As this cabinet is identical, and TLM-P also lived in Albion, it is assumed that it too was also imported by Senior Strombuco.((pers. comm T.A. M-P)) As usual with such furniture, it neatly comes into sections:
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 As well, a number of paintings, apart from family portraits and paintings of Maroon and district, came down the family line and were reputed to be TLM-P's. They include the following:\\
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-{{:turk_reclining_enhanced.jpg?300|}} ((Provenance: from G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P.))\\
+{{:turk_reclining_enhanced.jpg?300|}}  {{:pilate_enhanced.jpg?300|}}((Provenance of both: from G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P.)) {{:tom_therese_s_madonna_and_child.jpeg?250|}}((Provenance: T.A. & M.T. M-P.))  {{:dscn3697.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to J. Godden))\\
-The following is a black and white photo of the original.{{:parents_painting.jpg?300|}} {{:pilate_enhanced.jpg?300|}}((Provenance of both:  ?H.A. Wiessner)) {{:dscn3697.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to J. Godden))\\
+The following is a black and white photo of the original.{{:parents_painting.jpg?300|}} ((Provenance:?H.A. Wiessner)) \\
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 {{:cattle_enhanced.jpg?300|}} A damaged unframed painting of Hereford cattle.((Provenance: From G.S.M-P to T.A. M-P)) When TLM-P was in England he wrote in his diary that he had one of his late father's paintings, by Thomas Sidney Cooper, 'in the tin case for packing'. He showed it to Edmund Ashford, a former pupil of Cooper's who had watched it being painted. Ashford and TLM-P's step-sister Jemima commented that the 'the trees' in the painting made it one of Cooper's best. So it could not be this one as it has no trees. Yet the comment provides a clue that it is also by Cooper, especially as it is very like one by him of a bull's head: see [[https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Sidney+Cooper+painting&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCl9Ly8-neAhVUSX0KHWK2BVEQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=938#imgrc=A7g6hqw_cNPk0M:|Cooper painting]]. Alternatively, it may be by TLM-P's brother William as he had also been taught painting by Cooper.((TLM-P, Diary, 9 August 1882, ML.))   \\
 ==== Nora's or Thomas Lodge's? ====
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 Historian Angela Woollacott has argued, using TLM-P as a case study, that the concept of manhood in the colonies was intertwined with acceptance of frontier violence. She unquestioningly accepts Rosa Praed's version of events despite Rosa never quite making the transition from being a novelist to that of an accurate memoirist. She also attributes TLM-P's memoir of the Hornet Bank massacre to Rosa. Nevertheless, her argument, supported by other historians, is worth considering: that 'frontier violence was accepted within evolving definitions of manhood and hence political responsibility ... when we link frontier violence to gendered authority, mid-nineteenth century ideas of manhood might look a little less peaceable and restrained'.((Angela Woollacott, 'Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood', //History Australia//, 6:1, 2009, pp.11.1-11.15. See also, Angela Woollacott, 'Manly authority, employing non-white labour, and frontier violence 1830s-1860s', //Journal of Australian Colonial History//, Vol. 15, 2013, pp.23-42. [[https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=617722819166722;res=IELAPA> ISSN: 1441-0370]]))
-TLM-P was too complicated to be a satisfactory stock figure in any historical argument, though it would be possible to mount a case that his identification with royalty, insistence on a 'courtly' bearing and even his art collection that he bequeathed to the public, was at least partly motivated by a desire to assert himself as a civilised man, and to distance himself from his part in the grim reality of wrenching land from its traditional owners.
+TLM-P was too complicated to be a satisfactory stock figure in any historical argument, though it would be possible to mount a case that his identification with royalty, insistence on a 'courtly' bearing and even his art collection that he bequeathed to the public, was at least partly motivated by a desire to assert himself as a civilised man, and to distance himself from his part in the grim reality of wrenching land from its traditional owners.\\
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+==== Death ====
+As shown in the following death certificate, TLM-P died on New Year's Eve in 1892 at 'Whitecliffe', Albion, Brisbane. He was suffering from stomach cancer and, with a lack of effective pain relief, like so many others at the time, a contributing factor to his death was 'exhaustion'.\\
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