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Chippie IV: Maryborough’s Loyal Terrier with a Royal Connection
Picture: Standing watch at the entrance to Queen’s Park, Chippie IV is one of Maryborough’s most endearing monuments.
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Where: Entrance to Queen's Park, Maryborough
When: 7 Days a week
Cost: FREE!
Chippie IV is a charming terrier statue at the entrance to Queen’s Park, commemorating the beloved companion of Maryborough-born Rev. Tubby Clayton.
Picture: Standing watch at the entrance to Queen’s Park, Chippie IV is one of Maryborough’s most endearing monuments.
Picture: Standing watch at the entrance to Queen’s Park, Chippie IV is one of Maryborough’s most endearing monuments.
The Essentials
Where: Entrance to Queen's Park, Maryborough
When: 7 Days a week
Cost: FREE!
Honouring Rev. Tubby Clayton: Meet the Terrier Who Touched History
From Queen’s Park to London, Chippie IV and Rev. Tubby Clayton’s story honours war heroes, royals, and remarkable loyalty
An effigy of a little terrier, Chippie IV, is Queen’s Park’s most endearing guardian and a tribute to the Maryborough-born Rev. Tubby Clayton, founder of a world-wide movement that grew from a need to provide solace for soldiers in the darkest days of world War I.
The sculpture commemorates the anniversary of the death of Tubby Clayton in 1972. It also marks the anniversaries of the granting to Toc H of the Royal Charter by King George V and the Central Lamp of Maintenance from Prince Edward, both in 1922.
Chippie Mark IV was one of a long line of Cairn Terriers given to Tubby Clayton, first by Queen Mary and later by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Everywhere that Tubby went Chippie went: the two were inseparable. The effigy of Tubby in All Hallows in London includes Chippie sitting at his feet.
Toc H was nurtured by Tubby who opened a Soldiers Club at Talbot House in Poperinghe, Belgium, 11 km west of Ypres, in December 1915. Toc H, the Army signallers code word for Talbot House.
Through the chaos and horrors of war an ideal of kindness and succour was born that spread through the Australian states and beyond. Its work includes pioneering the blood transfusion service, the Royal Queensland Bush Children’s Health scheme and a camping program for children in need.
A mural of Tubby Clayton and Chippie is on the wall of the Wharf Street military museum.
Nearby is an ornate fountain memorial commemorating Richard Bingham Sheridan, who played a leading role in developing Queen’s Park in the 1860s as one of Australia’s earliest botanical gardens. The fountain began operation in 1882 and was re-commissioned in 1997.
Chippie IV is a charming terrier statue at the entrance to Queen’s Park, commemorating the beloved companion of Maryborough-born Rev. Tubby Clayton.
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