Henry Vivian Moyle (1841 – 16 May 1925) was a politician in the

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. Moyle was born in

Camborne Camborne ( kw, Kammbronn) is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove. Camborne was formerl ...

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, and emigrated to South Australia in 1860. He took over the Sir John Franklin Hotel at

Kapunda Kapunda is a town on the Light River and near the Barossa Valley in South Australia. It was established after a discovery in 1842 of significant copper deposits. The population was 2,917 at the 2016 Australian census. The southern entrance ...

, then sold up and went into partnership with Joseph Downing (c. 1827 – 20 July 1911) as Downing & Moyle, hotel brokers and financial agents with offices in Waymouth Street. He represented

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in the

South Australian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was creat ...

from April 1881 to April 1884, with colleagues

Jenkin Coles Sir Jenkin Coles (19 January 1843 – 6 December 1911) was a South Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1875 to 1878 and 1881 to 1911, representing the electorates of Light (1875–78, 1881–190 ...

and

Robert Dixson Robert Dixson (16 May 1842 – 27 November 1891) was a tobacco merchant and politician in the colony of South Australia. He was a brother of Sir Hugh Dixson, father of Sir Hugh Robert Denison and uncle of Sir William Dixson. History Dixson wa ...

. He was a member of the Glenelg Municipal Council from 1895 to around 1917.

Family

He married Martha Waters (c. 1845 – 6 July 1925) of Kapunda on 30 October 1864; they lived in Brighton then on the Bay Road (now

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), Glenelg. *Their adopted daughter Lena Moyle married Harold Angwin Carruthers on 20 November 1912.

References

1841 births 1925 deaths People from Camborne Colony of South Australia people British emigrants to Australia Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Australian hoteliers Australian real estate businesspeople {{Australia-politician-stub