Richard Moore (7 March 1849 – 12 September 1936) was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand and Mayor of Kaiapoi.
[2] He left England with his family on the Steadfast in February 1851, which arrived in Lyttelton on 8 June of that year.
When he sold the business he bought a shareholding in the Kaiapoi Produce Company and later became its sole owner.
[12] Moore was conjointly elected onto the Lyttelton Harbour Board by the boroughs of Kaiapoi and Rangiora in February 1905.
[17] Moore died in 1936 at his home in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere,[18] and was buried at Kaiapoi Cemetery.