Samuel Wilkinson Moore (7 February 1854 – 15 February 1935) was a politician and mine manager in New South Wales, Australia, a member of the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Reform parties, serving in the Legislative Assembly. He served as Secretary for Mines and Agriculture and Secretary for Lands.

Early life

Moore was born in Bua, on Vanua Levu (Sandalwood Island), Fiji, the son of the Reverend William Moore, Wesleyan Minister and missionary and his wife Mary Ann née Ducker. The family arrived in Sydney in 1864 and Moore attended Newington College (1865–1869),[1][2] when it was located at Newington House on the Parramatta River at Silverwater. From 1870 until 1872 he was a student teacher at the private High School, Goulburn, run by George Metcalfe who had been his Headmaster at Newington. In 1873 he went to the Tingha tinfields as secretary and manager of the Britannia Tin Mining Company. Moore married Isabella Sawkins on 18 June 1876 and had four daughters and a son. He was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1879 and was a member of Board of Technical Education from 1886 until 1887.[1] In 1896, Moore was elected the second President of the Old Newingtonians' Union. He served again in that position in 1898, 1904 and 1916.[3]

Parliamentary service

Moore was a member of the Legislative Assembly for a total of 24 years, ten months and 27 days. He was elected for Inverell from 19 October 1885 to 19 January 1889, when he retired.[4] He returne dto politics in 1894 and was elected to represent Bingara serving from 17 July 1894 until 14 September 1910 when he was defeated.[5] He served as Secretary for Mines and Agriculture in the Carruthers ministry from 29 August 1904 to 1 October 1907 and as Secretary for Lands in the Wade ministry from 2 October 1907 until 20 October 1910.[6]

Post-Parliamentary career

After Moore was defeated at the 1910 election, he was appointed Commissioner of the Western Lands Board and retired from that position in 1922.

Moore died in the Roseville on 15 February 1935(1935-02-15) (aged 81).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Atchison, John. "Moore, Samuel Wilkinson (1854 - 1935)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  2. ^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 138.
  3. ^ Swain, Peter Leonard (1999). Newington Across the Years, A History of Newington College 1863-1998. Sydney. p. 347. ISBN 9780646381350.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Inverell". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  5. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Bingara". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  6. ^ "The Hon. Samuel Wilkinson Moore (1854-1935)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

 

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