MOORE, Robert (3 son of John Moore, archbishop of Canterbury, d. 1805). b. 1777; ed. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; sinecure R. of Hollingbourne near Maidstone 1801; R. of Hunton, Kent 1802 to death; sinecure R. of Eynesford near Dartford 1802; canon residentiary of Canterbury 1804–62; R. of Latchingdon 1804; principal registrar of the prerogative court of Canterbury from his boyhood to 1858, drew for 60 years an income averaging £10,000. d. Hunton rectory 5 Sept. 1865, personalty sworn under £250,000 Oct. 28 1865.
MOORE, Robert Ross Rowan (eld. son of Wm. Moore). b. Dublin 23 Dec. 1811; ed. at Luxemburg school near Dublin, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; barrister G.I. 28 April 1837; member of the anti-corn law league, devoting his whole time and energy to the cause 1841–6; the freedom of Cupar was conferred on him Jany. 1844; contested Hastings 30 March 1844; presented with a piece of plate by working men of Exeter 1845; medallions of his head in relief, were sold at the anti-corn law league bazaar held in Covent Garden theatre May 1845. d. Bath 6 Aug. 1864. A. Prentice’s History of the anti-corn law league (1853); G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii 228 (1893).
MOORE, Ross Stewart (son of Hugh Moore of Nootka lodge, Carlingford, co. Louth). b. Carlingford 1809; ed. at Crumlin, co. Antrim and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to Irish bar 1833; went north eastern circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; M.P. Armagh city 9 July 1852 to death; one of editors of Irish law and equity reports; author with T. K. Lowry of A collection of the general rules of the queen’s bench, common pleas, and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. d. Dublin 5 Oct. 1855.
MOORE, Samuel Johnston (3 son of James Moore of Clady, Antrim). ed. Belfast academy and Glasgow univ.; M.D. 1863; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1868; pathologist Glasgow royal infirmary 1863–9; medico-legal examiner for the crown for Lower ward of Lanarkshire 1869; consulting physician to Glasgow opththalmic institution; wrote on cholera in Glasgow medical journal Jany. 1867. d. 15 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 2 April 1894. Midland medical miscellany v 481 (1886) portrait.
MOORE, Thomas (son of John Moore, grocer and wine merchant). b. 12 Aungier st. Dublin 28 May 1780; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1794, B.A. 1799; went to London and became student at the Middle Temple 1799; admiralty registrar at Bermuda Aug. 1803, left his office to a deputy and went to New York April 1804, returned to England Nov. 1804, his deputy defaulted in 1817 and left him liable for £6,000, this sum was reduced to £1,000, which he paid in 1822; challenged Francis Jeffery, editor of Edinburgh Review, to a duel, but the Bow st. officers interfered 11 Aug. 1806; published his Irish Melodies, with music by sir John Stevenson, in 10 numbers 1807–34, he received £12,810 for these 122 songs; Intercepted letters or the twopenny post bag by Thomas Brown the younger 1812, a collection of his metrical lampoons on the prince regent; his comic opera M.P. or the blue stocking produced at the Lyceum theatre 1811; resided at Mayfield cottage near Ashbourne from 1811, and at Sloperton cottage near Devizes 1817 to death; became intimate with Lord Byron 1811; his poem Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance 1817, for which he received £3,000 from Longmans’, made him famous in Europe, it was translated into Persian; travelled with lord John Russell in Italy 1819, when he received from lord Byron his Memoirs, which Moore sold to John Murray Nov. 1821, but on 17 May 1824 Murray returned them to him when he burned them, repaying the sum of 2,000 guineas to Murray; granted a literary pension of £300, 1835; author of The poetical works of the late Thomas Little, esq. 1801; The lives of the angels 1823; The memoirs of captain Rock 1824; Memoirs of R. B. Sheridan 1825; The Epicureans 1827; Letters and journals of lord Byron 2 vols. 1830; The history of Ireland 4 vols. 1839–46. m. 25 March 1811 Bessie Dyke an actress, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 March 1850, and d. Sloperton cottage 4 Sept. 1865 aged 68. He d. Sloperton cottage near Devizes 25 Feb. 1852. bur. Bromham near Devizes. Earl Russell’s Memoirs of Thomas Moore 8 vols. 1853–6 two portraits; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 22–30 portrait; T. Moore’s Life of Byron (1847) 142 etc.; C. Pebody’s Authors at work (1872) 304–47; F. Chorley’s The authors of England (1861) 53–57 portrait; J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets (1873) 226–38; The living poets of England (Paris 1827) ii 272–323; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery iii (1832) portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 11 portrait; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii 120–43 (1841); A book of memories by S. C. Hall 2 ed. (1877) 1–26.
Note.—The inscription on his tombstone says he was born May 28, 1779, it should be 1780. He is sketched under the name of Mr. Minus by Theodore Hook in his first novel entitled The man of sorrow. By Alfred Allendale 3 vols. 1809. More than 1,000 of Moore’s letters to his music publisher, James Power, dated 1808–36 were sold by Puttick and Simpson June 1853, the catalogue contains 131 pages.
MOORE, Thomas. b. Stoke near Guildford, Surrey 21 May 1821; helped Robert Marnock to lay out Regent’s Park garden 1840; curator of the Apothecaries’ company’s garden at Chelsea 1848 to death; an editor of Gardeners’ magazine of botany 1850 to 1851, of Garden companion and florists’ guide 1852, of the Floral mag. 1860–1, of Gardeners chronicle 1866–82, of the Florist and pomologist 1868–74, and of the Orchid album 1881–87; secretary to the floral committee and floral director of royal horticultural soc. many years; F.L.S. 1851; judge at many horticultural shows; author of Popular history of British ferns 1851, 2 ed. 1855; The elements of botany for families and schools 11 ed. 1875; author with John Lindley of The treasury of botany 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1874. d. Chelsea botanical garden 1 Jany. 1887. Gardeners’ Chronicle i 48 (1887) portrait; Little Journal i 373–5 (1885).
MOORE, Thomas Edward Laws. b. 1819; entered navy 19 Oct. 1832; commanded the Plover in search of the Polar expedition under sir John Franklin 17 Nov. 1847 to 1850; governor of the Falkland Islands 1855 to 1862; captain 13 Jany 1852, retired 31 March 1866, retired R.A. 24 May 1867; F.R.S. 1 June 1854, withdrew from the society 1868. d. 5 Victoria place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 1 May 1872.
MOORE, William. b. Birmingham 30 March 1790; portrait painter in London, then at York; worked in oil, water-colours and pastel. d. York 9 Oct. 1851.
MOORE, William Daniel. b. Dublin 19 April 1813; ed. Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A., and M.B. 1843, M.D. 1861; member of court of examiners of Apothecaries hall Dublin 1837–59, governor 1842–3, joint examiner in arts 1861; a Dutch and Scandinavian scholar; hon. fellow of Swedish soc. of physicians 1855; examiner in materia medica Queen’s univ. Ireland 1865; M.D. Oxf. 1862; translated L. V. Dahl’s Heller’s pathological chemistry of the urine 1855; J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On the structure of the spinal cord 1859; Schroeder Van Der Kolk’s On atrophy of the brain 1861; Rullman’s On the influence of the southern climatic sanatoria 1861; F. C. Donders’ On the accommodation and refraction of the eye 1864. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 Oct. 1871. Lancet 11 Nov. 1871 p. 696; Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1868) 115–21 portrait.