Thomas Chirnside [SEP] manner of death
land and £100 for the first Presbyterian Church in Werribee, and in February 1884, he laid the foundation stone of the second one. He and Andrew gave £1000 to Ormond College, at the University of Melbourne.
Suffrering from depression, Thomas Chirnside committed suicide in 1887. He was found dead in the garden of Werribee Park with a shotgun lying beside him. Andrew Chirnside inherited the property, but died three years later.
A primary school in Werribee has been named in his honour.
Further reading
Thomas Chirnside
Thomas Chirnside (1815–1887) was an Australian pastoralist who settled on much of what would become western Melbourne.
Thomas Chirnside was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, the elder son of Robert Chirnside and Mary Fairs. His father was also a farmer.
In 1839 Chirnside came from Liverpool on the ship "Bardaster". He arrived in Adelaide in January, and Sydney in March of that year. The drought of 1839 adversely affected the sheep he had bought near the Murrumbidgee River, so he joined his younger