Biography
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1902–1905 | 15th | Ohinemuri | Independent | |
Edward Moss was born in 1856 at Longwood House, on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in New Zealand in 1859 on the Zealandia and was educated at the Dunedin High School and Church of England Grammar School in Parnell, Auckland. Moss was a lawyer at Paeroa. His father, Frederick Moss (1829–1904), was the member for Parnell in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1878 to 1890.
At the 1899 election, Jackson Palmer (1867–1919) defeated Moss for the Ohinemuri electorate. At the 1902 election, Moss in turn defeated Palmer. Moss was an Independent Liberal who bitterly opposed Premier Richard Seddon. At the 1905 election, Moss was defeated by Hugh Poland of the Liberal Party.
Edward Moss was also a Māori scholar and natural historian. He was a conchologist and lived his later part of his life at Claybrook, a house that is today registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category II heritage building.
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