Richard Moore (New Zealand politician)

Richard Moore (7 March 1849 – 12 September 1936) was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand and Mayor of Kaiapoi.^[1]

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1890–1893	11th	Kaiapoi		Independent
1896–1899	13th	Kaiapoi		Independent

Moore was born in London on 7 March 1849, the son of shoemaker John Moore and his wife Ann.^[2] He left England with his family on the Steadfast in February 1851, which arrived in Lyttelton on 8 June of that year.^[3][4]

He was Mayor of Kaiapoi from 1884 to 1887.^[5]

In the 1887 election, he unsuccessfully contested the Kaiapoi electorate against Edward Richardson.^[6]

He represented Kaiapoi from 1890^[7] to 1893, when he was defeated, and from 1896 to 1899, when he was again defeated.^[8]

He was later made a member of the Legislative Council (1914–1935).^[9] In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.^[10]

Moore died in 1936 at his home in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere,^[11] and was buried at Kaiapoi Cemetery.^[5]

Notes

1. "Kaiapoi". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand - Canterbury Provincial District. Christchurch: The Cyclopedia Company Limited. 1903. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
2. "London, England, births and baptisms, 1813–1906". Ancestry.com. 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2015. (subscription required (help)).
3. "Steadfast". rootsweb. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
4. "The Hon. Richard Moore". Wanganui Chronicle (20128). 16 July 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
5. "Mayors of Kaiapoi" (PDF). Waimakariri District Libraries. p. 5. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
6. "Kaiapoi". The Star (6043). 27 September 1887. p. 4. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
7. "Further Results". The Star (7030). 8 December 1890. p. 3. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
8. Wilson 1985, p. 221.
9. Wilson 1985, p. 159.
10. "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post CXIX (105). 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
11. "Obituary: The Hon. Richard Moore". New Zealand Herald. 14 September 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

References

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.