MOORE, William Dennis (son of Dennis Moore, physician). b. Exeter 27 Oct. 1804; admitted attorney Jany. 1828; sheriff of Exeter 1844–45 and 1849–50; mayor 1847; town clerk 1865 to death; said to be the first rifle volunteer in the country; helped to form 1st Exeter volunteers about 1844, the first corps in England, captain 8 April 1853, major 8 Feb. 1862 to March 1873; provincial grand sec. of the Freemasons nearly 40 years, resided Pennsylvania, Exeter. d. Union hotel, Penzance, 21 Sept. 1874. bur. Exeter new cemetery, 26 Sept. Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 23 and 30 Sept. 1874.
MOORE, Sir William George (son of Francis Moore under sec. of state for war). b. Petersham Nov. 1795; ed. at Harrow 1805 etc.; ensign 52 foot 18 April 1811, aide-de-camp to sir John Hope at siege of Bayonne; wounded and taken prisoner at sortie from Bayonne 14 April 1814; lieut. grenadier guards 30 Sep. 1814 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; present at Waterloo; L.G. 5 June 1855; colonel commandant of 2 battalion of 60 royal rifles 26 Jany. 1856 to death; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Montrose house, Petersham 23 Oct. 1862.
MOORE, William Yorke. b. Plymouth 1806; ensign 39 foot 15 Dec. 1825, captain 19 July 1833; in the war with the rajah of Coorg and present at siege of Coorg; captain 54 foot 1 May 1835, lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; retired on full pay 5 Sept. 1856; served in Canada, the West Indies and the Mediterranean; while in Dominica fell with his horse over a precipice 200 feet high and was not much hurt; M.G. 5 Sept. 1856; made considerable collections of coins, which were on two occasions sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson. d. 9 Jany. 1890. Numismatic Chronicle (1890) 31.
MOORE, Willoughby. Cornet 3 dragoons 7 Sep. 1820; captain 6 dragoons 25 Nov. 1828, lieut.-col. 28 July 1843 to death; lost on board the transport ship “Europa,” destroyed by fire about 200 miles from Plymouth on her way to the Crimea 1 June 1854; his widow lady superintendent of officers hospital at Scutari granted civil list pension of £100, Oct. 23, 1854 she d. Scutari 22 Nov. 1855. G.M. xlii 302 (1854); A.R. (1854) 91–93.
MOOREHOUSE, William Sefton (eld. son of Wm. Moorehouse of Knottingley, Yorkshire). b. Yorkshire 1825; barrister M.T. Nov. 1850; went to Canterbury, New Zealand 1851, resident magistrate at Canterbury 1853; superintendent of the province 1857–62 and 1866–70; registrar general of lands 1870–2; member for Christ church in the general assembly; member for Ashley 1879 to death; founded the Canterbury museum. d. Sept. 1881.
MOORSOM, Constantine Richard (eld. son of admiral sir Robert Moorsom, K.C.B. 1760–1835). b. 22 Sept. 1792; ed. at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1807–9; entered navy 13 Nov. 1809; commanded the Fury bomb at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816, when he fitted her mortars on a plan of his own which was then adopted for the general service; captain 7 Dec. 1818; senior officer at the Mauritius some time; captain of the Prince Regent at Chatham 1825–7; V.A. on h.p. 10 Sept. 1857; a director of London and north western railway, chairman Oct. 1852; chairman of a committee on steamship performance, appointed by British association to which he presented reports in 1859 and 1860; author of On the principles of naval tactics, privately printed 1843, published 1846. d. Montagu place, Russell sq. London 26 May 1861.
MOORSOM, William. b. 1817; entered navy 28 June 1830; lieut. of Cornwallis in first China war; captain 14 March 1851; captain of Firebrand in Black sea; served with naval brigade in Crimea during Russian war; capt. of Diadem frigate 1857–9; C.B. 5 July 1855; invented the shell with the percussion fuze, which bore his name; invented the director, an instrument for directing the concentration of a ship’s broadside; author of Suggestions for the organisation and manœuvres of steam fleets 1854, and supplement 1854; Remarks on the construction of ships of war and the composition of war fleets 1857. d. Vernon terrace, Brighton 4 Feb. 1860. Memoir of captain William Moorsom 1860, privately printed.
MOORSOM, William Robert (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1834; ensign 52 foot 17 Aug. 1852, lieut. 10 June 1853; A.D.C. to sir Henry Havelock, and deputy assistant adjutant and quarter master general of his division in Indian mutiny 1857; acted as quarter master general of Outram’s division at siege of Lucknow; captain 13 foot 2 March 1858; his sketch-maps of the march to Lucknow, and of the city, are now at the British Museum. Killed during an attack on the iron bridge at Lucknow 24 March 1858, a monument erected to his memory by his regiment, is in Rochester cathedral.
MOORSOM, William Scarth (brother of C. R. Moorsom 1792–1861). b. Upper Stakesby near Whitby 1804; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 79 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 7 foot 12 Feb. 1825 to 26 Jany. 1826; captain 52 foot 8 April 1826, sold out 2 March 1832; visited and studied every railway and canal in England 1835–6; surveyed and completed the railway line from Birmingham to Gloucester 1836–40; laid out many railway lines in England and Ireland 1844–8; designed the railway bridge over the Rhine at Cologne 1850; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1835, M.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1849; author of Letters from Nova Scotia 1830; On reorganising the administration of India 1858; Historical records of the 52nd Oxfordshire light infantry 1860, 2 ed. 1860, and of many scientific papers. d. Great George st. Westminster 3 June 1863. G.M. xv 112, 245 (1863).
MORA, Antonio L. (son of Joseph P. Mora), travelled with Adelina Patti in America; chef d’ orchestre at Her Majesty’s theatre a short time, where he composed the music for R. Reece and Alfred Thompson’s pantomime The Yellow Dwarf Dec. 1882; conductor at South London palace, London 1888 to death; a knight of the legion of honour and of the iron crown of Vienna; composer of The birth of Jesus, a christmas song, New York 1864; Believe me, oh my mother, song, Milan 1874; The gnome’s reverie for the piano 1879; Ninetta, romance 1879; The villa choir, song and chorus 1881; Certainly not, song, words by A. Thompson 1883; Rhoda, comic opera in 3 acts 1889, and 50 other pieces of music 1860–89. d. Brook st. Kensington road, London 25 April 1891. bur. Tottenham cemetery 1 May.