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Maurice Joel (1829 – 13 November 1907) was a prominent brewer and public figure in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Joel was born in North Shields, in northern England, one of seven children of -born Trytle Joel and his wife Jane Grace Joel (née Isaacs)." Maurice Joel", geni. Retrieved 21 December 2018. His initial training was as an engraver. He formed a trading business with his brother, working mainly around the industrial cities of the north Midlands. In 1853 he emigrated to Australia, working as a gold buyer during the Victoria gold rush in Melbourne and Ballarat." Portrait of a people," Jewish Online Museum. Retrieved 21 December 2018. With the advent of the Otago gold rush in 1861, he moved to Dunedin, where he continued in business, opening a general merchant store" Maurice Joel obituary," www.cemeteries.org.nz. Originally published in the Otago Witness, 20 November 1907. Retrieved 21 December 2018. and also became interested in local politics.
During his first year in the city, he also helped found the Dunedin Jewish Congregation. From the 1860s through to the turn of the century he held several local political and public posts; he was on the committee of the 1889 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1889), a member of the Otago Harbour Board, and a director of both an insurance company and a coal company. Joel's main business venture in Dunedin was as founder and owner of the Red Lion Brewery." Obituary: Maurice Joel," Obituaries Australia. Retrieved 21 December 2018.Note: Red Lion Brewery is not connected with the later New Zealand lager Lion Red, brewed by Auckland-based Lion Nathan. As head of Red Lion, Joel had built one of Dunedin's most prominent public houses, the Captain Cook Tavern." Lost Dunedin #1: Eden Bank House," Built in Dunedin 3 August 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
In 1859, Joel married Katherine (Kate) Woolf, originally from Cape Town, Cape Colony. Together they had nine children, among them the artist Grace JoelThomson, J. (ed.) (1998) "Southern people: A dictionary of Otago Southland biography."Dunedin: Longacre Press. p. 254. and cricketer Louis Joel. Joel's grandson, Maurice Andrew Joel was a prominent barrister in Dunedin.
The Joels lived at Eden Bank House, a prominent structure in Regent Street, Dunedin North, before moving to Onslow Street in the south of the city where they lived until Joel's death in 1907. Joel is buried in the Jewish section of the Dunedin Southern Cemetery.
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