Edward George Britton Moss (1856 – 9 March 1916) was an Independent Liberal

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for in New Zealand.

Biography

Edward Moss was born in 1856 at Longwood House, on the island of

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in the South

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. He arrived in New Zealand in 1859 on the ''Zealandia'' and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and

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in Parnell,

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. Moss was a lawyer at

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. His father, Frederick Moss (1829–1904), was the member for Parnell in the House of Representatives from to 1890. At the ,

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(1867–1919) defeated Moss for the electorate. At the , Moss in turn defeated Palmer. Moss was an Independent Liberal who bitterly opposed

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Richard Seddon. At the , Moss was defeated by Hugh Poland of the Liberal Party. Edward Moss was also a

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scholar and natural historian. He was a

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and lived his later part of his life at Claybrook, a house that is today registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category II heritage building. He died on 9 March 1916 at his home in Parnell, Auckland.

Works

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Beautiful shells of New Zealand : an illustrated work for amateur collectors of New Zealand marine shells, with directions for collecting and cleaning them.
' Collins Bros., 1908.

Notes

References

* * * ''The New Liberal Party 1905'' by G.F. Whitcher (1966, MA(Hons) Thesis-University of Canterbury, Christchurch) * *

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