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Hugh M-P
Two of the photos of Hugh in his step-mother's album. The hand-coloured one with Hugh and friends in fancy dress was taken in 'Hobart Town', probably while he was at school there. Another photo in his father's album shows just Hugh in his fancy dress.
Photos of Hugh from TLM-P's album.
Robert M-P wrote that Hugh died 'at Annie Vale Run, in the Aramac District, of supposed heart failure .. because of the excessive heat'. He implied that Hugh and his brother Hervey may both have committed suicide, as their cause of death resulted in 'uncertainty and lingering worry'. Another source, shown below and yet to be identified, claims that Hugh was alcoholic and met his death through alcoholic misadventure.1)
Robert and Thomas Bertram M-P believed that Hugh had two illegitimate children: Alice Maud Cooke by Jane Cooke on 27 March 1890, and William Henry Cooke on 28 November 1892 by Jane's sister Elizabeth Cooke. The two sisters were nieces of Clara van Zuethen who, Robert and Thomas Bertram claim, had an illegitimate baby with TLM-P. ((Robert M-P, The Blood Royal of the Murray-Priors, ms written 1901-05 NLA Nq929.2M984; Thomas Bertram M-P, Some Australasian Families Descended from Royalty, ms, n.d., p.12.