James Moseley (politician)
Australian politician
James Grey Moseley CMG (April 1848 - 10 July 1937) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Flinders from 1910 to 1933. He was part of the Liberal Union, Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League.
History
Moseley was born in Gawler, a son of Alice Moseley, née Maynard (c. 1819 – 25 April 1895) and Henry Jackson Moseley (c. 1819 – 6 July 1894), who emigrated with two brothers aboard Tam O'Shanter which arrived in 1836 as part of the First Fleet of South Australia, and is remembered for building the Pier Hotel, Glenelg.
He was educated at J(ames) Mordey Mitchell's Glenelg Educational Institution, and on leaving was drawn to pastoral development, and around 1867, with his brother Thomas (1845–1896) left home with a combined capital of £800, which they put into a property, which might have been Coondambo Station, some 180 miles (290 km) north-west of Port Augusta. They were defeated by drought and lost everything, and returned to Adelaide. Minutes of Evidence in the report of the 1927 Royal Commission into the Pastoral Industry, taken Monday June 14, 1926 (Parliament House, Adelaide) state that James Moseley said that he and his brother had an interest in the establishment of the opening of Wilcherry, north of Kimba, South Australia, and that 'we spent £800 on it, but prices were so low that we could not carry on, and we went to work again. The next venture was Coondambo.'
For a time he managed Yadlamalka and Black Point stations, and in 1880, having raised sufficient capital, returned to Coondambo, and went into partnership with the owner Robert Bruce (c. 1835 – 4 November 1908).
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