Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior

Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (13 November 1819 – 31 December 1892) was a pastoralist and politician in the colony of Queensland, now a state of Australia. He held the office of Postmaster-General in Queensland, Australia, whilst Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

Early life Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior was born on 13 November 1819 at Wells, Somerset, England, the son of Thomas Murray-Prior of Windsor Terrace and his second wife Eliza Catherine Skinner. His father was born in 1790 and was an officer in the 11th Hussars and served at the Battle of Waterloo. His parents married at Cookham Church, Berkshire, on 31 December 1818. One of the sons from the marriage was Thomas de Montmorency Murray-Prior (a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly).

After Matilda's death in 1868 at age 41, he married a second time in Ryde, New South Wales, on 18 December 1872 to Nora Clarina Barton (Boree Nyrang near Orange, New South Wales, 3 December 1846 – London, 1931), who was an aunt of Poet Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson

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