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.
Read more about this topic: George Matheson Murray
Famous quotes containing the word epitaph:
“Here lies John Knott:
His father was Knott before him,
He lived Knott, died Knott,”
—Unknown. Epitaph on John Knott (l. 1–3)
“And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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.