Samuel Edward Moore (born 1803) was an early settler in colonial Western Australia, a merchant, pastoralist and a politician.
Samuel and his wife came to the Swan River Colony following his brother's favourable reports of prospects there.
Moore gradually purchased land on the Swan, in the Leschenault district, and town lots in Perth and Fremantle.
He was known as a "progressive agriculturalist" and "business man", owning stores and importing agencies in Fremantle, and had his own river barges to convey goods from Fremantle to Perth and Guildford, returning with produce from the Swan and the hinterland.
[4] In 1848, he was beset by bad debts, family illness, poor crops, and, in August,[5] the Vixen, used to ship his produce, was wrecked.