William Dalgety Moore

Moore was born in the Swan River Colony in 1835, the eldest child of Samuel Moore and his wife Dorothy (née Dalgety), at his father's estate, 'Oakover', near Guildford. In 1850, when he was 15, Moore started employment in the surveyor-general's office, remaining for four years there before moving to the North-West to work on a Hamersley & Co. station near Irwin River, where he went on to become the station manager. During his eight years at the station, Moore joined Francis Thomas Gregory and others (in 1858), exploring the Gascoyne and Murchison districts. ==Business career==

In 1862, at 27 years of age, Moore headed back south to Fremantle, and formed a business partnership with John Monger. The State Heritage Register records that Moore was the first president of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, from 1873 to 1875, Moore was a director of the W.A. Bank and on the local board of directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. He was also the manager of one of the first timber stations established in Western Australia at Quindalup and had interests in the pearling industry at Shark Bay. Moore also erected the first roller flour mill in Western Australia, building the Phoenix Mill in Essex Street, Fremantle (on the site of an old stone milling plant which had been previously destroyed by fire). ==Politics==

In 1870, Moore was elected to the Legislative Council, representing the seat of Fremantle alongside Edward Newman. However, due to business concerns, he retired after only two years. ==Personal life==

Moore married his first wife, Susanna Dora Monger, on 19 July 1860. She was the mother of the first twelve of his eighteen children. with whom he had another six children over the next ten years. Moore died on 22 April 1910 at his residence, Woodside in East Fremantle, at the age of 74, after several years of ill health. == References ==