Death
In July 1855 a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the New South Wales Survey Department. Before its report was published, Mitchell contracted a chill while surveying the line of road between Nelligen and Braidwood. He developed a severe attack of bronchitis and died a few days later at his residence at Darling Point Sydney at 5:15pm 5 October 1855. Newspapers of the day commented:
"For a period of twenty-eight years Sir Thomas Mitchell had served the Colony, much of that service having been exceedingly arduous and difficult. Among the early explorers of Australia his name will occupy an honoured place in the estimation of posterity."
He is buried at Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown, with his grave being maintained by the Seniors Group of Surveyors.
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