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Article: The lamentable death of Lady Mary FitzRoy.
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- Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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`Here's to the arm which can hold `em when gone, / Still to a gallop inclined, sir' (1)
`The lamentable death of Lady Mary FitzRoy was ... an irreparable misfortune to the colony' (2)
In Australian historical surveys the life and work of Sir Charles FitzRoy, New South Wales' tenth governor occupies the best part of a column. If there is an entry for his wife, it merely notes `FitzRoy, Lady Mary, death of'. The text to which the index entry refers usually chronicles the universal outpouring of grief following her death in Parramatta in 1847, when a carriage driven by her husband overturned. To single out one tragedy from the hundreds may seem odd, given ...
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