Charles Edgerton arrived in Australia with his parents in 1864. He undertook a compositing apprenticeship with the firm Fergusson and Moore, and became composing room foreman by the age of 21. He was admitted to the firm as a partner in 1886, and soon after became sole owner, the business becoming Edgerton and Moore.
Edgerton was several times president of the Victorian Master Printers' Association; a leader in a range of employers' associations; and Councillor and Mayor of the Melbourne City Council. He died in 1908 at the age of 58, and his son, Charles William Edgerton, took over the business.
