John Moses (16 April 1781 – 29 January 1849) was a Norwegian merchant who served as a representative at the

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in 1814. John Moses was born in

Kristiansund Kristiansund (, ; historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of ...

in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He belonged to a merchant family of British descent who had settled in Kristiansund to conduct the trade of large-scale fish exports. John Moses was one of Kristiansund's leading businessmen. He ran an export and import business, together with a shipping company. From the 1820s, he was living in London, where he ran the shipping business, conducting trading in a number of European countries. He represented Kristiansund at the

in 1814. He advocated policies that would benefit the business community. He supported the union party (''Unionspartiet''). John Moses was married to Anna Holck Tordenskjold (1782–1854) with whom he had seven children. He died in the Parish of

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, at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in

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1781 births 1849 deaths Politicians from Kristiansund Fathers of the Constitution of Norway 19th-century Norwegian businesspeople {{Norway-business-bio-stub