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medical men_ (1868) 115–21 _portrait_. 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