George Blaxland Molle (1839-1879)

Obituary
Mr. G. B. MOLLE. THE telegrams from Brisbane of Tuesday, the 13th October, and Wednesday, announcing the death of Mr. George Blaxland Molle, will have sent a thrill of sorrow through many a home besides those of his immediate family in New South Wales, where his compeers of the King's School are spread in all directions. As one of the boys of the Rev. Dr. Forest, there and afterwards, he distinguished himself as a scholar, both in classics and in mathematics, being one of the three competitors for the Broughton scholarship, which sent the Rev. Canon Gunther to Oxford, Mr. S. Cowper (son of the Very Rev. the late Archdeacon Cowper) being the third competitor.

He was born June 1839, at Newington, the home of his grandfather, his mother being Mary Ellen, sixth daughter of the Hon. John Blaxland, of Newington, M.L.C. His father was Wm. Macquarie Molle, judge in the civil service, Madras, and his grandfather was Colonel Molle, of the 65th Regiment, and Lieutenant-Governor of the colony during the government of Major-General Macquarie, who was his godfather. At the age of 15 Mr. Molle went to England and to Europe to complete his education, and afterwards to India, hoping to join the cavalry, filled with a deep feeling of vengeance for the sufferers by the mutiny, then progressing, but this his father forbid, thinking him then to be the last of the "Auld Molles of Manor," as sung by Sir Walter Scott in his Border minstrelsy. Returning to his native land, to finally settled in Queensland, where he married Sibel, daughter of Edward Lord, Esq., then a wealthy gentleman, from Calcutta, who had settled in Queensland. He has left a widow and six children lamenting their loss.

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