Solomon Meyer (1823 – 25 February 1902) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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, the son of silk manufacturer Jacob Meyer. In 1841 he migrated to

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, where he managed a business, before moving to

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around 1845. On 2 July 1844 he married Theophilia Faulder; they had one son. In 1851 he opened the Ophir goldfields' first general store, and he settled at

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. He was an alderman at

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and ran a grocery and ironmongery business. In 1874 he was elected to the

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for

, but he resigned in 1876. Meyer died at Goulburn in 1902.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Solomon 1823 births 1902 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians