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Horace A. Flower Horace A. Flower i(A22439 works by) (a.k.a. Horace Flower)
Born: Established: ca. 1854 ;
Gender: Male
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Bill Scott ('The Broken-Down Squatter' in Putnis (Ed), Downs Images, 1981, pp. 92-94), suggested that Horace A. Flower 'almost certainly' wrote the words of 'The Dying Stockman', a popular song which was first written and performed during the 1880s. During this period, Flower was manager of the Gatton branch of the 'old' Queensland National Bank.

According to a letter from his son (also Horace), held in typescript in the State Library of Queensland, Flower wrote the poem while he was based in Gatton in 1892, and was influenced by the old English hunting-song 'Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket (etc.)', having finished his education in England (from ages fourteen to nineteen).

Brother of Charles Augustus Flower (q.v.).

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