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Obituary.
CAPTAIN R . W . L . L . MURRAY ., Died 2 nd Nov . 1850 , at his seat , West Felton Hall , Shropshire . Captain Murray was born 22 nd Dec . 1780 , was educated at AVestminster and Cambridge , was in the Royal Manx Fencibles during the rebellion in Ireland , and under the Duke of AVellington in the whole of the Peninsular campaignfor which he was honoured with the Queen ' s medals .
, He went to Sydney , New South Wales , in 1816 , and was appointed assistant police magistrate , & c . In 1821 he went to Van Dieman ' s Land , where he remained till the year 1847 . Captain Murray was the father and founder of every Lodge and Chapter in the island of Van Dieman ' s Laud , and nearly every Mason in the Colony was either made by him or by the Masters whom he had initiated and instructed in Masonry . He had been for nearly fifty years before his death an installed Master ,
and possessed high registered rank in the Craft . It was upon his application and recommendation that the warrant of the first and every succeeding Lodge and other Masonic body in that island were obtained from the Grand Lodge of Ireland , of which he was a strenuous supporter , having for many years kept up an active correspondence with the Grand Secretary and Grand Master , his reports of the state and progress of Masonry being highly esteemed aud acknowledged by repeated votes of thanks in open Lodge . There is no doubt that he would , from
his zeal , state in the Craft , and influential position in the colony , have been made Provincial Grand Master for Australia , had not the M . AV . G . M . the Duke of Leinster , set his face against making such officers out of Ireland . The Lodge which Captain Murray first formed in Hobart Town , the Tasmanian Union Lodge , has recently received its first warrant , and is acting now under the Grand Lodge of England , being No . 781 on the registry . No man endeavoured to act more strictly in conformity with the principles of the Craft than did our
deceased Brother , and no man was more generally and universally esteemed . And this is the more creditable to him , because , as the founder of tbe press , and the talented editor of the first newspaper of the colony , which was long known in all parts of the world as Murray ' s Review , and while conducting publications which succeeded it , he was necessarily brought into collision on political , local , and general topics with many parties . His prudencetemperancebrotherlloveand truth , enabled him
, , y , , however , to make friends even of his political opponents , and to render himself alike esteemed in public and private life . He has left , as his successor in the Craft , his son , Bro . Darcy Murray , the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle , Launceston , Van Dieman ' s Land , and it is to be hoped that the mantle of his worthy father will have descended on him , and the jewels , services of plate , and numerous testimonials of respect received by his father will stimulate him to tread in his footsteps .
BRO . CHARLES CLIVELEY . Died Dec . 3 rd , at Bristol , after a few hours' illness , aged 52 . Bro . Cliveley was well known as a man of strict integrity and of unblemished honour . He was equally an ornament to society as to Freemasonry , and his sudden death will be deplored by all who knew him and valued his friendship .
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Obituary.
CAPTAIN R . W . L . L . MURRAY ., Died 2 nd Nov . 1850 , at his seat , West Felton Hall , Shropshire . Captain Murray was born 22 nd Dec . 1780 , was educated at AVestminster and Cambridge , was in the Royal Manx Fencibles during the rebellion in Ireland , and under the Duke of AVellington in the whole of the Peninsular campaignfor which he was honoured with the Queen ' s medals .
, He went to Sydney , New South Wales , in 1816 , and was appointed assistant police magistrate , & c . In 1821 he went to Van Dieman ' s Land , where he remained till the year 1847 . Captain Murray was the father and founder of every Lodge and Chapter in the island of Van Dieman ' s Laud , and nearly every Mason in the Colony was either made by him or by the Masters whom he had initiated and instructed in Masonry . He had been for nearly fifty years before his death an installed Master ,
and possessed high registered rank in the Craft . It was upon his application and recommendation that the warrant of the first and every succeeding Lodge and other Masonic body in that island were obtained from the Grand Lodge of Ireland , of which he was a strenuous supporter , having for many years kept up an active correspondence with the Grand Secretary and Grand Master , his reports of the state and progress of Masonry being highly esteemed aud acknowledged by repeated votes of thanks in open Lodge . There is no doubt that he would , from
his zeal , state in the Craft , and influential position in the colony , have been made Provincial Grand Master for Australia , had not the M . AV . G . M . the Duke of Leinster , set his face against making such officers out of Ireland . The Lodge which Captain Murray first formed in Hobart Town , the Tasmanian Union Lodge , has recently received its first warrant , and is acting now under the Grand Lodge of England , being No . 781 on the registry . No man endeavoured to act more strictly in conformity with the principles of the Craft than did our
deceased Brother , and no man was more generally and universally esteemed . And this is the more creditable to him , because , as the founder of tbe press , and the talented editor of the first newspaper of the colony , which was long known in all parts of the world as Murray ' s Review , and while conducting publications which succeeded it , he was necessarily brought into collision on political , local , and general topics with many parties . His prudencetemperancebrotherlloveand truth , enabled him
, , y , , however , to make friends even of his political opponents , and to render himself alike esteemed in public and private life . He has left , as his successor in the Craft , his son , Bro . Darcy Murray , the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle , Launceston , Van Dieman ' s Land , and it is to be hoped that the mantle of his worthy father will have descended on him , and the jewels , services of plate , and numerous testimonials of respect received by his father will stimulate him to tread in his footsteps .
BRO . CHARLES CLIVELEY . Died Dec . 3 rd , at Bristol , after a few hours' illness , aged 52 . Bro . Cliveley was well known as a man of strict integrity and of unblemished honour . He was equally an ornament to society as to Freemasonry , and his sudden death will be deplored by all who knew him and valued his friendship .