Epitaph
The Murrays' daughter and biographer Georgina Keddell observed that if it were not for being eclipsed by the high profile in politics and publishing gained by her mother, her father would be far better known for his political career and as a historical figure.
George is commemorated on the British Columbia landscape by a Mount Murray in the Hart Ranges on the southern periphery of the Peace River Country, and also (with his wife) by Mount Murray, in the heart of the Clear Range mid-way between Lillooet and Spences Bridge.
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Famous quotes containing the word epitaph:
“But since Thy loud-tongu’d Blood demands Supplies,
More from BriareusHands, than Argus Eyes,
I’ll tune Thy Elegies to Trumpet-sounds,
And write Thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds!”
—James Graham Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.