Modern English biography

MOORE, RICHARD (2 son of Steven Moore of Grenane, co. Waterford). _b._ 1783; called to bar in Ireland 1807; K.C. 1827; solicitor general for Ireland 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sep. 1841; attorney general 16 July 1846 to 13 Dec. 1847; a judge of Irish court of queen’s bench 13 Dec. 1847 to death; P.C. Ireland 1847. _d._ 31 Dec. 1857. _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848) _portrait_. MOORE, RICHARD. _b._ London 16 Oct. 1810; a wood-carver; member of the National convention which met to promote the passing of the Peoples’ charter 1839; joined Lovett in the Working men’s association 1842; treasurer of the People’s charter union formed 10 April 1848; permanent chairman of the committee for the abolition of newspaper stamps formed 7 March 1849, which met 473 times 1849–61; took part in almost every advanced radical movement; a wood carver 23 Marchmont st., Brunswick sq., London to death; lived in Finsbury, London 1832 to death. _d._ London 7 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12 Dec. _C. D. Collet’s Life of Richard Moore_ (1879); _Century Mag. Jany. 1882 p._ 428 _portrait_. MOORE, RICHARD (son of Glover Moore of Halsall, Lancs. _b._ 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; C. of Kirkham, Lancs. 1815–17; C. of Whittington, Lancs. 1817–20; V. of Lund near Preston 12 April 1820 to death, more than 66 years. _d._ 19 April 1886. MOORE, RICHARD CORNWALLIS. _b._ 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 17 June 1824; col. commandant 6 Oct. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ 6 Hyde park terrace, London 16 Dec, 1879. 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.