Abram Orpen Moriarty (1830 - 1918), by unknown photographer, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales. PX*D 624. .Image Details

MORIARTY, ABRAM ORPEN (1830-1918), public servant, was born in County Cork, Ireland, son of Merion Marshall Moriarty and his wife Anne, née Orpen. In the St George he reached Sydney with his family in January 1843. At 16 he became a clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Department; by 1853 he was chief clerk in the Department of Lands and in 1857 commissioner of crown lands for New England and Macleay, and police magistrate, Armidale. In February 1858 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for New England and Macleay. T. G. Rusden petitioned that Moriarty's return was unconstitutional because he was receiving money from the crown but the assembly rejected the plea. On 13 October Moriarty resigned and became clerk of the Executive Council on 8 November ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography