Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (13 November 1819 – 31 December 1892)[1] was a pastoralist and politician in the colony of Queensland, now a state of Australia.

His maternal grandparents were William Augustus Skinner of Moor Hall, Cookham, and Mary Orlebar.

Murray-Prior was educated by the private tutors Monsieur Giron at Reading, and Dr. Burney at Gosport[2] and in Brussels under Reverend William Drury.

[1] His son Robert Sterling Murray-Prior (Kangaroo Point, 29 September 1881 – Hunters Hill, 31 May 1962) married Estella Augusta Herring (Gladesville, 3 March 1883 – Hunters Hill, 7 September 1968) at Gladesville on 22 April 1906, daughter of Gerard Edgar Herring (Cromer, Norfolk, 1835 – Gladesville, Sydney, 10 February 1915), Under Secretary for Lands, and second wife (married Ryde, New South Wales, 1879) Caroline Estella De Lange.

His granddaughter Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior (born 14 December 1913, Hunters Hill) married at Hunters Hill on 23 February 1935 Alan Robert Cullen-Ward (Mosman, born 23 August 1910), son of Rupert Allen Cullen-Ward (Stoke Newington, 18 June 1881 – Sydney, 12 June 1948) and wife (married Drummoyne, 1 December 1909) Mary Winifred Collins (Charter's Towers, 4 May 1884 – Drummoyne, 13 May 1940), paternal grandson of William Cullen-Ward (Paddington, 25 April 1854 – Waverley, New South Wales, 5 September 1913) and Mary Ann Hibbard, maternal grandson of Robert Collins (Liverpool, born 8 September 1844) and Winifred Geraghty (Ballinasloe, born 1851), and great-grandson of William Ward and Elizabeth Ann Cullen.