Merion Moriarty M.D. - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
S 33° 49.450 E 151° 12.335
56H E 333938 N 6255891
This plaque is for Merion Marshall Moriarty, an Irish-born Australian Politician of northern Sydney.
Waymark Code: WMY5QN
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 04/26/2018
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The bronze plaque is on the end of a sandstone rectangular tomb, in the St. Thomas' Rest Park, that originated as the Anglican Cemetery in 1850. The plaque reads:
In Memory of
MERION MARSHALL
MORIARTY M.D.
Commander R.N.
Portmaster of New South Wales
from 1842 to 1857, and a member
of the Legislative Assembly
from 1860
Died 10th January 1864
Aged 70 years
also of his son
SYLVERIUS MORIARTY
Barrister at Law
Died 21st October 1847
Aged 30 years
Also of
ANNE MORIARTY
Sixth daughter of Edward Orpen
of Killowen
Died 19th April 1877
Aged 78
From the Wikipedia article:
"He was born in County Cork to Vice-Admiral Sylverius Moriarty and Lydia Hinton. He joined the Royal Navy in 1807, travelling to Copenhagen, the Mediterranean and the West Indies. In 1814 he was promoted lieutenant, and he retired in 1815. On 15 October 1816 he married Anne Orpen, with whom he had nine children. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1821, and practised at Dublin. In 1843 he migrated to New South Wales to serve as portmaster and harbourmaster; he retired in 1857. In 1860 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Braidwood; he held the seat until his death in Sydney in 1864"
Wikipedia: Merion Moriarty
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