John Moule (politician)


John Moule was a wheat merchant and politician in the colony of South Australia.
He was taken to the United States as a young boy, and by the time he was twenty had seen much of the world. He settled in South Australia around 1865 and took up employment, and later partnership, with Ernst Siekmann, storekeeper and grain merchant of Saddleworth and Caltowie. He moved to Adelaide around 1879.
He was elected to the seat of Flinders in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from April 1884 to April 1896, his colleagues being Andrew Tennant followed by William Horn then Alexander Poynton. In 1893 for a short period he served as Commissioner of Public Works in the Downer Administration.
He died on the Melbourne Express, on which he was travelling to Ballarat, Victoria on mining business with the Hon. Sir Edward Lucas. J. H. Howe was an old friend.

Family

John Moule married Harriet Brinkworth on 23 March 1868; they lived at Saddleworth, then Marlbrough Street, East Adelaide, then "Pemberton", 35 Walkerville Road, East Adelaide. Their family included: