| The first thing TLM-P needed was to gain colonial experience, a form of internship to learn the ways of the colony. He did so on a property Dalwood, near Maitland in the [[wp>Hunter_Region|Hunter Valley]], north of Sydney.(({http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282|Australian Dictionary of Biography}})) Dalwood House (pictured) {{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/assets/images/dalwood-house.jpg?300}} is now a National Trust Property, but located within the Wyndham Estate Winery - as at 2016, it was not open to the public.(({{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/dalwood-house.html}}))\\ | The first thing TLM-P needed was to gain colonial experience, a form of internship to learn the ways of the colony. He did so on a property Dalwood, near Maitland in the [[wp>Hunter_Region|Hunter Valley]], north of Sydney.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-prior-thomas-lodge-4282|Australian Dictionary of Biography}})) Dalwood House (pictured) {{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/assets/images/dalwood-house.jpg?300}} is now a National Trust Property, but located within the Wyndham Estate Winery - as at 2016, it was not open to the public.(({{ http://www.dalwood.org.au/dalwood-house.html}}))\\ |
| How and why did he end up at Dalwood? The likely reason is his school network. Dalwood was owned by George Wyndham and his wife Margaret. Her father, John Jay, after business losses during the Napoleonic Wars, had 'conducted a school for English boys in Brussels'.(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) Was this the one associated with the Rev Drury that TLM-P had attended, or another one? It seems likely that it was this connection that resulted in him going to Dalwood. TLM-P was lucky as George Wyndham was generally admired: 'Respected for his leniency to his assigned labour in the early days and himself a hard worker in the field, George Wyndham considered himself mainly a farmer and pastoralist. He was highly respected within both the local and wider community.'(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) George Wyndham kept a diary from 1830-40, and Wyndham family letters have also survived, but these have not yet been checked for any contain a reference to TLM-P.((D. E. Wilkinson, Extracts from Dinton-Dalwood Letters 1827-53 , 2nd Edition. Sydney. Privately printed, 1964; G. Wyndham, Diary from 1830-1840. Mitchell Library.)) TLM-P was also lucky in encountering George in the 1840s and not Wadham Wyndham, who 40 years later in a frenzy of religious mania, slaughtered his entire family.((//The Bulletin//, 19 September 1887.))\\ | How and why did he end up at Dalwood? The likely reason is his school network. Dalwood was owned by George Wyndham and his wife Margaret. Her father, John Jay, after business losses during the Napoleonic Wars, had 'conducted a school for English boys in Brussels'.(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) Was this the one associated with the Rev Drury that TLM-P had attended, or another one? It seems likely that it was this connection that resulted in him going to Dalwood. TLM-P was lucky as George Wyndham was generally admired: 'Respected for his leniency to his assigned labour in the early days and himself a hard worker in the field, George Wyndham considered himself mainly a farmer and pastoralist. He was highly respected within both the local and wider community.'(({{http://www.dalwood.org.au/founders.html}})) George Wyndham kept a diary from 1830-40, and Wyndham family letters have also survived, but these have not yet been checked for any contain a reference to TLM-P.((D. E. Wilkinson, Extracts from Dinton-Dalwood Letters 1827-53 , 2nd Edition. Sydney. Privately printed, 1964; G. Wyndham, Diary from 1830-1840. Mitchell Library.)) TLM-P was also lucky in encountering George in the 1840s and not Wadham Wyndham, who 40 years later in a frenzy of religious mania, slaughtered his entire family.((//The Bulletin//, 19 September 1887.))\\ |