Matthew Moss | |
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Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
In office 22 May 1895 – 4 May 1897 | |
Preceded by | William Pearse |
Succeeded by | Denis Doherty |
Constituency | North Fremantle |
Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia | |
In office 22 May 1900 – 6 December 1901 | |
Preceded by | Daniel Keen Congdon |
Succeeded by | Robert Laurie |
Constituency | West Province |
In office 22 May 1902 – 21 May 1914 | |
Preceded by | Alfred Kidson |
Succeeded by | Joseph Allen |
Constituency | West Province |
Personal details | |
Born | Matthew Lewis Moss 1 December 1863 Dunedin, New Zealand |
Died | February 28, 1946 London, England | (aged 82)
Political party | Liberal (from 1911) |
Matthew Lewis Moss KC (1 December 1863 – 28 February 1946) was a lawyer and politician who served in the Parliament of Western Australia on three separate occasions – in the Legislative Assembly from 1895 to 1897, and in the Legislative Council from 1900 to 1901 and again from 1902 to 1914. He was a minister in the governments of Alf Morgans (1901), Walter James (1902–1904), and Hector Rason (1905–1906). Moss was born in New Zealand and arrived in Western Australia in 1891. He left for England in 1914 and spent the rest of his life there, although he maintained connections with Australia, on two occasions acting as Agent-General for Western Australia.