Ephraim Zox
Politician, Deceased Person
1837 – 1899
Who was Ephraim Zox?
Ephraim Laman Zox was an Australian financier and politician.
Zox was born in Liverpool, England, son of Eliazer Laman Zox, proprietor of a large cap-making business. He arrived in Melbourne in December 1852 and worked as an assistant to his cousin Lewis Myer Myers in a softgoods firm. From 1863 he partnered Myers in a warehouse business and for about five years from 1866 his brother Joseph joined him in Melbourne. On 15 May 1879 his partnership with Myers was dissolved and next year he set up on his own as 'financial agent and arbitrator', Collins Street West.
Zox represented the Legislative Assembly seat of East Melbourne from 1877 until 1899. A conservative, he opposed payment of members and protection amid the bitter party strife which accompanied Sir Graham Berry's second government, and such measures as income tax and female suffrage in the 1890s. A supporter of the coalitions of the 1880s and of Sir James Patterson's ministry, he was more consistent and predictable than many of his contemporaries. Good natured, genial and popular, he spoke in parliament in a typically bantering style, and his puns were a byword, but he was less at ease on serious subjects. He was a 'useful and painstaking' chairman of the royal commissions on asylums for the insane and inebriate, on banking laws and on charitable institutions; he was also a member of the commissions on the working of the Friendly Societies Statute and the tariff.
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- Born
- Oct 22, 1837
Liverpool - Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 23, 1899
St Kilda
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on July 23, 2013
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