Modern English biography

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.