MP Biographical Register

Richard Greenslade Moore

Parliamentary Service

House

MLC

Party

National then Liberal President Kalgoorlie branch Liberal Party

Date Elected

29 October 1932

Electorate

North-East

Service

Electorates

MLC North-East Province, 29 October 1932 (by-election)–21 May 1936
Contested North East Province, 9 May 1936, 29 April 1944; Hannans 23 April 1938; South Province 4 May 1946 (Liberal)

Private Member's Bills

Year Retired/Resigned

1936

Personal Information

Birth date

21 June 1878

Place of birth

Neereman, Victoria, Australia

Death date

15 September 1966

Cause of death

Place of death

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. At home

Cemetery

Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

To WA on Paroo 17 March 1900

Parents

Son of John Moore, coachbuilder, and Anne Greenslade

Marriage and Family

Married (1) 22 April 1903, Methodist Church, Menzies, WA to Margaret McIntyre, daughter of John McIntyre and Elizabeth Carmichael Children: two sons and two daughters
Widowed: 3 January 1952
Married (2) 30 January 1953, Wesley Church, Perth to Rose Sarah Fennell (widow of Rev Herbert Fennell), daughter of Henry and Mary Watson
No children

Religion

Methodist

Education

Educated Victoria

Occupation

Coachbuilder and blacksmith

Employment History

Served apprenticeship as blacksmith and wheelwright
Blacksmith and coachbuilder in goldfields of WA
Three months at Boulder City and four years at Broad Arrow
In Kalgoorlie, 1905 he established a long-lasting coachbuilding business and continued in business until 1932

Local Government

Kalgoorlie Municipal Council, 1 April 1925–1932, 25 November 1936–July 1937 Mayor of Kalgoorlie, 7 July 1937–15 September 1966 President, Country Town Councils’ Association

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Joint chairman, War Patriotic Fund in Kalgoorlie, during Second World War
Appointed Office of the Order of the British Empire, 1951
Awarded knighthood in 1960 for services advancing the general welfare of the Kalgoorlie community
President, Kalgoorlie Mechanics Institute, Royal Flying Doctor Service (Eastern Goldfields branch), Kalgoorlie Red Cross, Eastern Goldfields YMCA, Kalgoorlie–Boulder Silver Chain and Bush Nursing Association
Vice president and hon life member, St John Ambulance Association, president of Transport Division for eight years
Hon life member, Tributers Association
Member, Kalgoorlie Chamber of Commerce
Patron, Goldfields Boy Scouts Association

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 186.
Ferguson, p. 174.

Bibliography

Further Information

Kalgoorlie Miner, 1 January 1960, 16 September 1966.
Tess Thomson, 'Moore, Sir Richard Greenslade (Dick) (1878–1966)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-sir-richard-greenslade-dick-11156/text19873, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 23 December 2015.
West Australian, 1 January 1951, 1 January 1960, 19 July 1965, 16 September 1966.