Tasmanian friends and foes : feathered, furred, and finned; a family chronicle of country life, nature history, and veritable adventure / [Mrs. Charles Meredith].

  • Louisa Anne Meredith
Date:
1881
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Credit: Tasmanian friends and foes : feathered, furred, and finned; a family chronicle of country life, nature history, and veritable adventure / [Mrs. Charles Meredith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3n fiDcmoriam. THE HONOURABLE CHARLES MEREDITH, Bom at Poyston, Pembrokeshire, 29th May, 1811 ; Died at Launceston, Tasmania, 2nd March, 1880. He from whose noble character a few features are feebly portrayed in these pages, has been removed by death from the scene of his benevolent purpose and earnest effort ere their publication. The following extract, from one of the many warm tributes ofiFered to his memory by Colonial writers, has been selected by his sorrowing wife as a loving tribute for which no apology need be asked, since the chief interest , to bo found in this book consists in his adventures, which are therein faithfully narrated :— “ He was the very Kupert of debate—fearless, earnest, honest, truthful, witty, and withal uncompromising. Few cared about breaking a lance with him. His enmities were political; he did not make them personal. Ever ready, after a fearless denunciation of a political opponent and his principles, or a bitter passage of arms in debate, to welcome the friend with a warm greeting outside, even those who most suffered under the withering sarcasm of his scathing tongue, whilst they feared, honoured the man, and paid tribute to his dauntless nature. • ••••••••* “ Charles Meredith was considerate, full of energy, kindly, generous, and lovable, a staunch friend, and, what is more, an honourable foe. He was sensitive to the pain which mars God’s beautiful earth; courageous in action as in idea; as a man, honest— as a friend, faithful—as a magistrate, fearless; whilst not the least of the characteristics which helped to make his noble nature so lovable was his tender thought for God’s speechless creatures. He truly wore ‘ The white flower of a blameless life Before a thousand peering littlenesses.’ Another of Tasmania’s sons, one of her most trusty friends, of her most honoured servants, who has left his work on the scroll of time, is gonebut his name will be remembered, and in every remembrance honoured—honoured and loved as that of one * Who reverenced his conscience as his king ; Whose glory was redressing human wrong; Who spoke no slander—no, nor listened to it. ’ ” Sydney Town and County Journal, April 3,1880. Launceston, Tasmania, June 8, 1880. L. A. M.