Prominent former Melbourne stockbroker and company director James Gordon Maxwell Moffatt went on to be a highly regarded successful fundraiser and medical and arts philanthropist.
Known as Gordon, James Gordon Maxwell Moffatt began his career as humble stockbroking script clerk and rose through the ranks to chair several public companies. In his latter years, he was an influential chair of several health research and community organisations and was generous philanthropist.
After leaving council he served for many years on the board of the Lord Mayor’s Fund and was its chair between 1989 and 2000 helping to build the fund to more than $200 million. During his war school days, Gordon recalls: “I sensed there was some local social disquiet that my mother was German despite the fact she had left the country 14 years before. When mother gave me a watch with the word ‘Berlin’ on the dial for my birthday, I was so worried about what the other boys at school might think, I flushed it down the toilet!”
After suffering a mild stroke in 1988 he paid a lot more attention to his health and took up honorary board positions of the National Stroke Foundation and the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He also gave his services to the Australian Bionic Ear Institute and the Epworth Medical Foundation and was a life governor of the Alfred, Freemasons and St Vincent hospitals as well as the Victorian School for Deaf Children and the YMCA National Council.
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