Mr. Thomas Moodie was born in Saline, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1837. Educated at the Campbelltown Grammar School, Argyleshire, Scotland, and at Glasgow, he entered mercantile life in the office of a large firm of ship owners—engaged in the East and West Indian trade—whose headquarters were at Greenock. After seven years' service, Mr. Moodle left for New Zealand in the ship “Jura” on the 1st of June, 1858, arriving at Port Chalmers on the 23rd page 390 of September of the same year. Until joining the late Mr. J. A. Connell in 1862, he found employment and gained experience in the offices of Messrs. F. Greer and Co. and Dalgety and Co., in Dunedin. He was afterwards a director of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company, Limited. As a Freemason Mr. Moodie is attached to Lodge Celtic, No. 479, S.C., of which he has occupied the senior warden's chair. He is interested in bowling, having taken part in tournaments, and occupied the positions of hon. treasurer of the Dunedin Bowling Club and of the New Zealand Bowling Association. Mr. ‘Moodle was married in 1863 to a daughter of Mr. James Brown, of Dunedin, and has four sons and three daughters.