Samuel Wilkinson Moore

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 {{nee}} Ducker. The family arrived in Sydney in 1864 and Moore attended Newington College (1865–1869),Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 138. 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.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=John |last=Atchison |title=Moore, Samuel Wilkinson (1854 - 1935) |id2=moore-samuel-wilkinson-7641 |access-date=8 December 2019}} In 1896, Moore was elected the second President of the Old Newingtonians' Union. He served again in that position in 1898, 1904 and 1916.{{cite book |first=Peter Leonard |last=Swain |title=Newington Across the Years, A History of Newington College 1863-1998 |location=Sydney |year=1999 |page=347 |isbn=9780646381350}}

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.{{Cite NSW election |title=Elections for the District of Inverell |year=DistrictIndexes |district=Inverell |access-date=2020-09-26}} 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.{{cite NSW election|title=Elections for the District of Bingara|year=DistrictIndexes|district=Bingara|access-date=7 August 2020}} 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.{{cite NSW Parliament |title=The Hon. Samuel Wilkinson Moore (1854-1935) |id=978 |former=Yes |access-date=11 May 2019}}

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 {{death date and age|15 February 1935|7 February 1854|df=y}}.

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