Richard Moore (New Zealand politician)

Richard Moore (7 March 1849 – 12 September 1936) was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand and Mayor of Kaiapoi.

Moore was born in London on 7 March 1849, the son of shoemaker John Moore and his wife Ann. He left England with his family on the Steadfast in February 1851, which arrived in Lyttelton on 8 June of that year.

He was Mayor of Kaiapoi from 1884 to 1887.

In the 1887 election, he unsuccessfully contested the Kaiapoi electorate against Edward Richardson.

He represented Kaiapoi from 1890 to 1893, when he was defeated, and from 1896 to 1899, when he was again defeated.

He was later made a member of the Legislative Council (1914–1935). In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

Moore died in 1936 at his home in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere, and was buried at Kaiapoi Cemetery.

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