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| ===== Jemima Prior/Murray Prior ===== | |
| {{:aunt_j.jpg?direct&200|}} {{:aunt_jemina.jpg?direct&200|}} These photos are studio ones from TLM-P’s album.((Provenance: J. Godden)) They are labelled ‘Aunt J.’ and ‘Aunt Jemima M.P’. The former has a signature on the back dated 1872; the signature ends with Prior, and is possibly JMPrior - Jemima Murray Prior?\\ | |
| Jemima, like her sister Louisa, remained single. She was pious and both wealthy 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, p.104.)) Faced with large scale poverty, philanthropists in the Victorian age normally restricted aid to those considered ‘deserving’, that is, poor through no fault of their own and living blameless lives. The latter requirement alone substantially reduced the call on philanthropists’ purses!\\ | |
| See photo taken by Andrew Darbyshire at Southampton church, Andrew Darbyshire, //A Fair Slice of St Lucia//, St Lucia History Group Research Paper No.8. pp.59,60. https://brisbanehistorywest.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/08-a-fair-slice-of-st-lucia-thomas-lodge-murray-prior.pdf\\ | |
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