page_title: Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Sutcliffe Mort / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: The unveiling of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort's statue in Macquarie Place in 1883
context_page_description: Thomas Sutcliffe Mort was an Australian industrialist who improved the refrigeration of meat. He was renowned for speculation in the local pastoral industry as well as industrial activities such as his Ice-Works in Sydney's Darling Harbour and dry dock and engineering works at Balmain.
context_section_description: Thomas Mort died of pneumonia at Bodalla on 9 May 1878.
  At the time of his death he was spoken of as "the greatest benefactor the working classes in this country ever had".  Within a week, a meeting of working men in Sydney had resolved to show their esteem; a sculpture in Macquarie Place by Pierce Connolly was unveiled in 1883.
  Mort is also commemorated by All Saints Church, Bodalla, built in his honour by his family, to a design by Blacket, using granite quarried on Mort's property. The foundation stone was laid in 1880. It was completed in 1901. The church has one of seven small Henry Willis & Sons organs. The church cost A£13,000.
  Mort's business Mort & Co. became Mort & Co Ltd in 1883. It merged with R Goldsbrough & Co Ltd in 1888 to form Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd.  In 1963 a merger formed Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd which traded until 1982.  The present day business is Elders Limited.
  The southern Sydney suburb of Mortdale and its main road, Morts Road, are named after him.
  His house in Darling Point which he called Greenoaks became the home of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney on 24 October 1910 and was renamed Bishopscourt. It was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 1999.
caption: The unveiling of Mort's statue in Macquarie Place in 1883.
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