Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Independent Free Trade 1901–1903 |
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14 October 1892 |
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South Fremantle |
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State
Electorates
- MLA South Fremantle 14 October 1892–March 1901 (resigned)
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Member of the House of Representatives Fremantle 29 March 1901–16 December 1903
- Contested Fremantle (House of Representative) 16 December 1903
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1901 |
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Personal Information |
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Circa 2 September 1839 |
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London, England, United Kingdom |
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23 May 1909 |
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Beaconsfield, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, WA |
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Arrived in Western Australia January 1868 from South Australia in Eliza Blanche |
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Son of Samuel Moss and Leah Myers |
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Married (1) 18 July 1877, at residence of E Solomon, Fremantle to Agnes Elizabeth Bickley, daughter of Wallace Bickley and Elizabeth Bickley
Children: two sons and three daughters
Widowed 22 April 1886
Married (2) 1 May 1887, District Registry Office, Fremantle to Elizabeth Stokes (born 16 September 1868), daughter of John and Elizabeth Poynan
Children: three sons and three daughters
Widowed 3 December 1898 (wife died at sea en route Fremantle to Adelaide) |
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Jewish |
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Businessperson, auctioneer and consul |
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Employed by uncle’s auctioneering firm, E Solomon and Company
In 1857 represented his uncle as a sugar buyer in Mauritius
Auctioneer and general merchant, Essex St, Fremantle, importers and retailers
After firm dissolved became manager for L Samson
Later in partnership with LA Manning
1878 Consular for Italy in Western Australia |
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Fremantle Town Council 1877–1883, chairman 1881
Mayor of Fremantle 1889–1891, 1896–1898, 1900–1901 |
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Arrived in South Australia 1840
After a few months went to Sydney
Returned to Adelaide on father’s death 1849
Justice of the Peace
First chairman Fremantle Municipal Railways Board
President Fremantle Literary Institute
Chairman Hospital Board and Cemetery Board; member Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Building Society, granted lot for Fremantle Synagogue in 1902
President Hebrew Congregation |
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The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, 4 vols, compiled by Rica Erickson, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1987
D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 184.
J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament 1901–72, Canberra: ANU Press, 1975.
West Australian, 24 May 1909.
Who's Who in Australia (1906–08) |
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