Morris Asher (3 June 1818 – 29 October 1909) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Hackney to Isaac Benjamin and Mary Asher. He migrated to

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in 1839 and ran general stores first near

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and then at Grenfell. He then migrated to

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, running a store at

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before moving back to

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in 1846 and settling at

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. In 1846 he married Rebecca Levey, with whom he had ten children. In 1859 he was elected to the

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for Hume, but he was defeated in 1860. Already owning three hotels, a general store, a flour mill and a boiling-down works at Albury, he opened a further store on the Lachlan goldfields and in the 1870s was an appraiser for Crown Lands. Later an auctioneer in Sydney, Asher died at

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in 1909.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Asher, Morris 1818 births 1909 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Colony of New South Wales politicians