Charles Moore (Australian politician)

Charles Moore

Charles Moore (29 August 1820 4 July 1895) was an Irish-born Australian politician.

He was born at Ballymacarne in County Cavan to farmer James Moore and Catherine Rogers. He was educated at Fermanagh and became an apprentice draper, eventually in Dublin. He came to South Australia with a drapery shipment and settled in Sydney in 1850, where he opened his own drapery. He married twice: first to Sarah Jane Wilcox, and second to Annie Hill Montgomery in 1883. He was a Randwick alderman from 1860 to 1886 and mayor in 1863, and a Sydney City Councillor from 1865 to 1869 and from 1871 to 1886, serving as Mayor from 1867 to 1869. In 1874 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Sydney, but he was defeated at the general election later that year. In 1880 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he remained until his death at Parramatta in 1895. Moore Park is named for him.[1][2]

References

  1. "Mr Charles Moore (1820–1895)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. 2008. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. Terri McCormack (2012). "Moore, Charles". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
James Neale
Member for East Sydney
1874
Served alongside: John Macintosh, George Oakes, Henry Parkes
Succeeded by
John Davies
Alexander Stuart
Civic offices
Preceded by
John Sutton
Mayor of Sydney
1867–1869
Succeeded by
Walter Renny
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