Matthew Moss

Matthew Moss
Member of the Legislative Assembly
of Western Australia
In office
22 May 1895 – 4 May 1897
Preceded byWilliam Pearse
Succeeded byDenis Doherty
ConstituencyNorth Fremantle
Member of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia
In office
22 May 1900 – 6 December 1901
Serving with Henry Briggs
and Alfred Kidson
Preceded byDaniel Keen Congdon
Succeeded byRobert Laurie
ConstituencyWest Province
In office
22 May 1902 – 21 May 1914
Serving with Henry Briggs (1902–1914)
Robert Laurie (1902–1912)
Robert Lynn (1912–1914)
Preceded byAlfred Kidson
Succeeded byJoseph Allen
ConstituencyWest Province
Personal details
Born
Matthew Lewis Moss

(1863-12-01)1 December 1863
Dunedin, New Zealand
DiedFebruary 28, 1946(1946-02-28) (aged 82)
London, England
Political partyLiberal (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.