Historical information

T.R.B. Morton and other investors set up the Freehold Investment Company which set out the township of Blackburn in the 1880s. The Company folded in 1892 but T.R.B. Morton, as one of the liquidators continued auctioning off the land through his company, Morton and Coghill. He was a Nunawading Shire Councillor from 1888 to 1897 and 1899 to 1923, being Shire President four times. Morton Park in Central Road, Blackburn is named after him.

Physical description

Coloured photograph of the Morton family tombstone on grave 1403, Church of England section, Box Hill Cemetery
Morton, Thomas Richard Burrowes: 1854 - 1923
Morton, Louisa Mary: 1861 - 1937