Note.—Nelly Moore’s performances at the Haymarket are mentioned in H. S. Leigh’s verses called Chateaux d’ Espagne in Carols of Crockayne (1869) 195–8.
MOORE, Edwin (eld. son of Wm. Moore 1790–1851). b. Birmingham 29 Jany. 1813; pupil of David Cox and Samuel Prout the water-colour painters; employed many years as a teacher of painting in water-colours at York, especially in the schools of the Society of Friends, from whom he received a pension after 57 years work; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A. 1855–73. d. York 27 July 1893.
MOORE, Miss Frances. b. 1789 or 1790; author of Manners, a novel, 3 vols. 1817, anon; A year and a day, a novel in two volumes by Madame Panache, author of Manners 1818; Historical life of Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples and countess of Provence, 2 vols. London 1824, anon. d. Exeter 6 June 1881. Times 13 June 1881 p. 1; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 15 June 1881 p. 5.
MOORE, Francis. Ensign 28 foot 30 Sept. 1787, captain 22 June 1793; major in Lord Belvedere’s corps 20 July 1794; lieut. col. 128 foot 20 Dec. 1794; brigadier general on the staff in Great Britain 25 July 1804 to 24 June 1806; brigadier general on the staff in North America 3 Dec. 1807; commander of the forces in Newfoundland 25 April 1808; L.G. 4 June 1813; general 22 July 1830; the senior general in the British army. d. Bath 22 Aug. 1861, aged 93.
MOORE, George. b. 1791; entered Bombay army 1807, ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 26 March 1809, lieut. 7 July 1813; captain 18 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 19 Aug. 1831 to 28 June 1838; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1840, of 11 N.I. 1840 to 1843, of 19 N.I. 1843 to 1844, of 25 N.I. 1845–46, and of 26 N.I. 1846–8; military auditor general 9 Dec. 1846 to 18 Feb. 1853; lieut. col. of 3 N.I. 1848–9; col. of 8 N.I. 9 July 1849 to death; general 19 Oct. 1868. d. Oxford st. London 18 Aug. 1869.
MOORE, George (2nd son of John Moore of Mealsgate, Cumberland, statesman). b. Mealsgate 9 April 1806; apprenticed to Messenger of Wigtown, draper, 4 years; arrived in London 1 April 1825; assistant at Flint, Ray & Co.’s Grafton house, Newport Market April 1825; assistant and traveller at Fisher, Stroud and Robinson’s Watling st. Jany. 1826 to June 1830; entered as partner firm of Groucock and Copestake 62 Friday st. London June 1830; removed the business to Bow churchyard 1834; established a branch of the firm at Nottingham end of 1844, erected a lace factory there 1845; picked as sheriff of London June 1852, paid the fine of £400 not to serve; removed from Oxford terrace to Kensington palace gardens 1854; purchased the Whitehall estate, Cumberland Oct. 1858; freeman of the Fishmongers’ Co. 1856, prime warden June 1868; built church and schools in Somer’s Town, London 1869; with col. Stuart Wortley dispensed city of London relief Fund at Paris Feb. 1871; sheriff of Cumberland 1872–73; chairman of commission to inquire into money order system of the post office 1876; declined to stand as candidate to parliament for Nottingham, Marylebone, city of London, Surrey, Cumberland and Middlesex; knocked down by a horse 20 Nov. and d. the Grey Goat inn, Carlisle 21 Nov. 1876. bur. in mortuary chapel in church of All Hallows’ near Whitehall, Cumberland 25 Nov. personalty sworn under £400,000. George Moore merchant and philanthropist by S. Smiles (1878) portrait; I.L.N. lxix 530, 533 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiv 541, 542 (1876) portrait; J. Burnley’s Sir Titus Salt and George Moore (1885) 67–128 portrait.
MOORE, George (son of the dispenser at Plymouth infirmary). b. Plymouth 11 March 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris, M.R.C.S. 1829, L.S.A. 1830, M.D. St. Andrew’s 1841, L.R.C.P. 1843, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Camberwell, London 1830–8, and at Hastings 1838–48, and 1857 to about 1875; author of The minstrel’s tale and other poems 1826; Infant baptism reconsidered 1840; The power of the soul over the body 1845, 6 ed. 1868; The use of the body in relation to the mind 1846, 3 ed. 1852; Man and his motives 1848, 3 ed. 1852; The lost tribes and the Saxons of the East and the West with new views of Buddhism 1861. d. Hastings 30 Oct. 1880.
MOORE, George. b. 1834; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1855; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1861; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1862; in practice at Salford, Manchester 1855; removed to Skelton, near Stoke-on-Trent 1860, and to London 1870; a specialist in throat and chest affections; attended the princess of Wales for 20 years; invented a nose inhaler for hay fever and catarrh 1883; treated asthma by means of sprays; author of On some diseases of the nose, throat, air tubes and lungs 1867; Summer catarrh or hay fever, its causes and treatment 1870. d. 37 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 8 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World 30 Jany. 1890 p. 132 portrait; Times 13 Jany. 1890 p. 7; Lancet 18 Jany. 1890 p. 174.
MOORE, George Bolton. b. 1806; drawing master at royal military academy Woolwich, and at univ. coll. London; a practical artist in perspective; exhibited 32 landscapes at R. A., 31 at B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1830–70; author of Perspective, its principles and practice, two parts, 1850; The principles of colour applied to decorative art 1851. d. Nov. 1875.
MOORE, George Henry (son of George Moore of Moore hall, co. Mayo). b. Moore hall 1811; entered Oscott college Birmingham about 1817; an editor of the Oscotian, the college magazine, contributed poems to it and to the Dublin and London Mag.; entered Christ’s coll. Camb. 1827; M.P. co. Mayo 1847–57 and 1868 to death; one of the leaders of the tenant-right movement, and the best orator of his party; sheriff of Mayo 1867. d. Moore hall, Ballyglass 19 April 1870. Sir C. G. Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 135, 227–8; The Nation 8 Aug. 1868 portrait, and 23 April 1870.