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Harry Beauchamp Unwin

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2 January 1845 — 5 August 1874

Harry Beauchamp Unwin (29A)

Headstone

A fragment of Harry Beauchamp Unwin's headstone discovered in a Toowong Cemetery Archaeological Dig in 2023

  • Erected: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Episcopalian section. After 5 August 1874
  • Moved to: North Brisbane Burial Grounds, Reserved Area. ca. 1914. Recorded as H. B. Unwin
  • Demolished and disposed of in: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A. ca. 1930
  • Discovered: Toowong Cemetery, Portion 29A near Section 72. ca. May 2023

Inscription

Harry Beauchamp Unwin
born
Jany 2nd 1845
Died August 5th 1874

Thy will be done

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Death registration: Harry Beauchamp Unwin
Death date: 05/08/1874
Mother's name: -
Father/parent's name: - Unwin
Registration details: 1874/B/8687

DEATH.
UNWIN.—On the 5th August, at Commercial Hotel, South Brisbane, Harry Beauchamp Urwin, aged 29.

FUNERAL.—The Friends of the late HARRY BEAUCHAMP UNWIN (late of Stanthorpe) are requested to attend his Funeral ; to leave Campbell's Commercial Hotel, Stanley-street, THIS DAY (Friday) at 10 a.m.
1579 G. W. C. WILSON, Undertaker.

FUNERAL.—The Friends of the late H. B. UNWIN are requested to attend his Funeral, which takes place THIS DAY, at half-past 9 a.m., from Campbell's Commercial Hotel, South Brisbane.


ECHOES OF THE PAST
DOWNS MEMOIRS
(By "Gooragooby," Dalveen.)

Mr. Harry Beauchamp-Unwin, son of one of the members of the well-known London banking family of that name, some, 60 or 70 years ago, held a small interest in the Warwick Argus newspaper for a brief period in 1870-71, re-tiring from same shortly after the rush, to the Stanthorpe tin mines set in, and subsequently became part proprietor of the Quart Pot Creek news paper. He died on August 5, 1874, whilst in South Brisbane, and on the 29th of the same month a strange matter cropped up in reference to the affairs of the departed Harry B. Unwin. On his death his Stanthorpe partner, Mr. J. W. Pillar, was requested to examine his papers with a view to locating Unwin's will, but after careful examination nothing was to be found, and the curator of intestate estates then took charge. Mr. Raff ordered that his effects be sold. Whilst removing a quantity of furniture, including a chest of drawers, on to a dray, there was found among a lot of rubbish, a small box in the chest, of drawers, which on being forced open was found to contain a host of papers, deeds, etc., together with a will dated 1870. The will appointed Mr. Jas. Morgan (the late Sir Arthur's father) and Dr. Fuller, of Warwick, his executors. The whole of Unwin's property was left to his mother in England. Deceased was understood to be heir to considerable property to the Home land. The Stanthorpe newspaper then passed entirely into the hands of Mr. J. W. Pillar, he having purchased the interests of his late partner (Mr. H. B. Unwin). Mr. Pillar has long since followed his partner of the early seventies, and only a few months since Mrs. J. W. Pillar also set out on the long journey.



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