Judah Moss Solomon

The Herald Fremantle WA Sat 18 Sep 1880; Death:

SOLOMON.-On the 29th August, at his residence, King William Street, South Adelaide, JUDAH MOSS SOLOMON, Chairman of the Adelaide Destitute Board, brother to Mr. Elias. Solomon, Fremantle; aged 61 years and 8 months.

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Judah Moss Solomon (1818-1880), merchant, was born on 21 December 1818 in London, son of Moss Solomon and his wife Betsy, née Myers. He probably arrived in Sydney in 1831 where he was educated at Sydney College. He was employed by his uncles as supercargo on board their vessels and visited Adelaide in October 1839 with a cargo of ponies from Timor. In 1842-45 he was government auctioneer at Moreton Bay but in 1846 he went to Adelaide to join Emanuel and another uncle Isaac in an auctioneering firm. In 1854-57 he was in England for his health; after his return he set up in business on his own.

Judah Solomon was an alderman for Gawler Ward in 1852-54, a member of the House of Assembly for the City of Adelaide in 1858-60, a member of the Legislative Council in 1861-66 and in 1871-75 he represented West Adelaide in the assembly. He was mayor of Adelaide in 1869-71, and originated the conference of mayors of various municipalities and chairmen of district councils that inquired into nuisances over which the municipalities had no control: the outcome was the Public Health Act. He participated in movements for the drainage of Adelaide, the provision of waterworks and the control of diseased meat. He became chairman of the Destitute Board in 1877 and was instrumental in arranging the boarding-out system for orphans in whom he took a personal interest.

Solomon was a firm free trader and, it was said, 'when he once formed an opinion, no consideration of party or interest could induce him to change it, indeed, he might have been more successful in his parliamentary career had he been less independent'. He acted as coroner and as auditor to public companies and was the first president of the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation.

Aged 73, he died of cancer on 29 August 1880 in Adelaide; his estate was sworn for probate at £1750. He was twice married: first to Rachel Cohen on 7 August 1842, and second on 4 September 1867 to Adela Pulver (d.1875). Seven of his sixteen children survived him; one of his sons, Vaiben Louis, was premier and treasurer of South Australia in 1899 and a member of the first Federal parliament until 1903.

Image Ref: Judah Moss Solomon, n.d. State Library of South Australia, 11264