The older brother of the two Moxon siblings who established shipping interests in Brisbane, Robert Julius Moxon or (or R.J.) was less interested in earthly pursuits and studied for the ministry. He too had arrived from Kent but was born in Bangalore, India the son of a British Army officer. He migrated to Sydney in 1883 at the age of 22 on the S.S. John Duthie about five years before his brothers.
Robert was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1886, married in Camden near Sydney in 1888 and was ordained as a priest in 1889. He worked in the parishes of Lower Clarence (Maclean), Tenterfield and Inverell in North western New South Wales before being promoted to Archdeacon in Grafton. He was also the Church of England Chaplain at Grafton Gaol for many years.
His wife was Hilda Brunskill Moran and between 1889 and 1908 they had seven children. Sadly he died in 1910 when the youngest was only two years old.
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