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_bur._ Highgate cemet. _Temple Bar_, _liii_ 342–6 (1878); _The Portfolio_, _i_ 5–6 (1870); _I.L.N. 3 Feb. 1894_, _supplement pp. 1–4_, _portrait and 15 views of his paintings_; _St. James’s Budget 29 Sep. 1893 p._ 3, _portrait_. MOORE, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1809; a shipwright’s apprentice; master shipwright, then chief instructor Devonport dockyard 1865–78. _d._ Dockyard terrace, Devonport 1 April 1878. _Report Devonshire Association_, _x_ 57–8 (1878). MOORE, ALFRED WILLIAM. _b._ Guernsey 1823; known as fatty Moore; ed. at London hospital, L.S.A. 1849; M.R.C.S. 1850; under a special diet lost 3 stone in weight 1846, William Banting and John Harvey disputed his claim to the invention of the system; surgeon accoucheur Provident medical institute, Pimlico road, London; author of The dietary of corpulence 1856; Corpulency _i.e._ fat or embonpoint in excess. Letters to the Medical Times and Gazette explaining his newly discovered diet system to reduce the weight 1856; resided 2 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London. _d._ 24 March 1882. _Sporting Review lii_ 398–400 (1864). MOORE, AUBREY LACKINGTON (2 son of Daniel Moore, V. of Holy Trinity, Paddington since 1866, prebendary of St. Paul’s since 1880). _b._ Camberwell 1848; ed. at St. Paul’s school 1860–7 and Ex. coll. Oxf. 1867, B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; fellow of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1872–6, lecturer and tutor 1874; assistant tutor at Magd. coll. 1875; R. of Frenchay near Bristol 1876–81; tutor of Keble coll. 1881; exam. chaplain to bishop Mackarness 1878 and to bishop Stubbs 1888; select preacher at Oxford 1885–6; Whitehall preacher 1887–8; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1887; wrote in The Guardian 1883 to death; author of An essay on The Christian doctrine of God in Lux Mundi 1889; Science and the faith, essays on apologetic subjects 1889; Lectures on the reformation in England and on the continent 1890; From Advent to Advent, sermons 2 ed. 1894. _d._ 2 Keble road, Oxford 17 Jany. 1890; Aubrey Moore studentship founded 1890, portrait by C. W. Furse placed in Keble college hall 1892. _A. L. Moore’s Essays, scientific and philosophical_ (1890) _memoir pp. xi–xxxvi_; _London Figaro 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 4, _portrait_. MOORE, BEAUFOY ALFRED. _b._ 1821; proprietor of the Old Cheshire Cheese chop house, 16 Wine Office court, Fleet st. London 1856 to death. _d._ 58 Maida Vale, London 5 Feb. 1886. MOORE, CARTER WILLIAM DAKING. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; C. of Barton on Humber 1841–3; C. in charge of Flordon, Norfolk 1848–53; committed to Norwich castle 21 March 1852 for cursing a magistrate at Flordon railway station the day before; C. of Leyton, Essex 1867–9; C. of Woking 1869–71; author of Lights and shades in the life of a curate; and of works on ritualism and confirmation, also of poetry, sermons &c, none of his books are in the British Museum library. _d._ 1884. MOORE, CHARLES (1 son of J. Arthur Moore of Liverpool _d._ 1830). _b._ Ireland 17 June 1804; head of firm of C. Moore and co. shipowners, Liverpool, then of London; owned large estates in Ireland; purchased a country seat Mooresfort, Tipperary 1865; M.P. co. Tipperary 1865 to death; purchased the estate of Balleycohey relieving the tenants of the Scully proprietorship, and became very popular. _d._ 19 Grafton st. Piccadilly, London 15 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biography_, _Sep. 1869 p._ 150. MOORE, CHARLES (2 son of John Moore, printer _d._ 1844). _b._ Ilminster, Somerset 8 June 1815; employed by Mr. Meyler, bookseller, Bath 1837–44; printer and bookseller at Ilminster 1844–53; lived at Bath 1853 to death; a councillor for Syncombe and Widcombe ward 1 Sep. 1868, alderman 11 Sep. 1874; made the collection which now forms the Geological museum of the Bath royal literary and scientific institute; F.G.S. 1854; announced at meeting of British Assoc. in Bath 1864 his discovery of existence in England of the Rhætic beds previously overlooked; author of 30 papers on geological subjects. _d._ Bath 8 Dec.