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members for 1881 will see the name of Charles Moore near the 
head of the list with a star against it; he, together with 
Christopher Broome, Prebendary Scarth, and Leonard Blomefield, 
being the only starred (i.e. original) members of the founders 
of the Club in 1855 then remaining. In the following year, 
1882, one star is absent from the list ; since then two others have 
set, one now alone remaining. 
The ancient town of Ilminster, in the county of Somerset, the 
home of the Spekes, (one of whose distinguished sons in company 
with the then Capt. Grant, just deceased, was the great African 
traveller,) and the burial place of Nicholas Wadham, the founder 
of the college at Oxford of that name, was also the birth-place of 
Charles Moore, an equally distinguished man in his way. His 
father, John Moore, had six children by his wife Sophia (née 
Eames), three sons, William, Charles and John, and three 
daughters. The subject of these notes (the third child but 
second son) was born on June 8th, 1815, and baptized on 6th of 
August following at the Old Unitarian Meeting House. At an 
early age Charles was sent to the Commercial School, and continued 
his education there till the Midsummer of 1827, when he passed 
on to the Free Grammar School, remaining there under the 
tuition of the Rev. John Allen, M.A., the head-master, one year. 
At the following Midsummer he left and assisted his father 
in conducting the business of a bookseller in the same town; 
and also his Uncle Samuel Moore, who carried on a like 
business at Castle Carey. About the year 1837 he appears 
to have first come to Bath, and was connected with Mr. 
Meyler, the well-known bookseller in the Abbey Churchyard. 
Here he continued till the death of his father in July, 1844 (his 
mother having died several years previously), when he returned to 
Timinster and together with one of his sisters (his eldest) con- 
tinued the business for nine years, till 1853, keeping a home for 
themselves and the younger sister. The two brothers, William 
and John, seem to have left England at this time, their departure 
