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MOORE 



George Moore, 

 Irish author 



tive arid character sketching is 

 evident in all his later works, 

 which include They Call It Love, 

 1895; Nell Gwyn, 1900; and The 

 Marriage of Barbara, 1911. He 

 also wrote A Journalist's Note 

 Book, 1894, and A Life of Gold- 

 smith, 1910. Among his plays are 

 Oliver Goldsmith, 1892, and Kitty 

 Olive, 1895. 



Moore, GEORGE (b. 1853). Irish 

 author. The eldest son of George 

 Henry Moore, M.P., of Moore Hall, 

 co. Mayo, he 

 was educated 

 in London and 

 Paris, and 

 soon began to 

 write. His 

 earliest pub- 

 lished works 

 were volumes 

 of verse, The 

 Flowers of 

 Passion, 1877; 

 and Pagan Poems, 1881. Asanovelist 

 he began with A Mummer's Wife, 

 1885, which, like Esther Waters, 

 1894, was a work of the realistic 

 type, i/ater works include Evelyn 

 Innes, 1898 ; Sister Teresa, 1901 ; 

 and The Brook Kerith, 1916, deal- 

 ing with the life of Christ. Moore 

 wrote several plays, and was one 

 of the promoters of the Irish liter- 

 ary revival. He was also known as 

 an art critic, on which subject he 

 wrote Modern Painting, 1893. 



Moore, HENRY (1831-1895). 

 British painter. Born at York, 

 March 7, 1831, he studied under 

 sw^B^^^^^^^i^ his father, 

 and entered 

 the ll.A. 

 Schools in 

 1853. In 1886 

 he was elected 

 A.B.A., and in 

 1893 R.A. A 

 prolific artist 

 > v IBI i and frequent 

 Henry Moore, exhibitor, his 

 British painter chief works, 

 H. P. Roi,iH,o.Redhiii p a i n t m g 8 o f the 

 sea, include A White Calm, 1858 ; 

 Catspaws off the Land, 1885 (Tate 

 Gallery) ; Clearness After Bain, 

 1887 ; A Breezy Day in the Chan- 

 nel, 1888; Summer at Sea, 1893. 

 He died at Margate, June 22, 1895. 

 Moore, SIR JOHN (1761-1809). 

 British soldier. Born in Glasgow, 

 Nov. 13, 1761, he was a son of Dr. 

 John Moore (1729-1802), author 

 of Zeluco. Educated at Glasgow 

 High School, he entered the 51st 

 Foot in 1776, and served in America 

 during the War of Independence. 

 In 1794 he was in Corsica, after 

 which he went on an expedition 

 to Santa Lucia. He served against 

 the Irish rebels in 1798, in the 

 Netherlands in 1799, and in Egypt 

 in 1802, by which time his reputa- 



tion as a sol- 

 dier stood 

 very high. 

 Having been 

 knighted, h e 

 was, in 1803, 

 chosen to 

 command the 

 troops at 

 S h o r n c 1 iff e, 



trained the 



regiments, among them the 43rd 



and 52nd, of the light division. 



In 1806 Moore was sent to the 

 Mediterranean, and in 1808 he led 

 a division on an abortive attempt 

 to assist Sweden. Returning 

 therefrom he was ordered to Portu- 

 gal, and was soon in command of 

 the British troops there. Events 

 made it necessary for him to fall 

 back to Corunna, where his men 

 turned and fought the French, 

 Jan. 16, 1809. Moore was mortally 

 wounded and died on the 17th. 

 The circumstances of his burial are 

 known through Rev. C. Wolfe's 

 poem. For six years, 1784-90, 

 Moore was a Scottish M.P. He 

 enjoyed the friendship of Pitt and 

 the duke of York, who, like others 

 in authority, thought highly of 

 his soldierly qualities. His remark- 

 able work in training the infantry 

 makes him one of the creators of 

 the British army. See Peninsular 

 War ; consult also Lives, J. C. 

 Moore, 1834 ; J. F. Maurice, 1897 . 

 Diary, ed. J. F. Maurice, 1904. 



Mopre, MARY. British actress. 

 Born in London, she made her 

 first appearance at The Gaiety 

 under John Hollingshead, but on 

 her marriage with the dramatist, 

 James Albery (1838-89), she 

 retired until 1885, when she ap- 

 peared at Bradford under the 

 management of 

 Charles Wynd- 

 ham, with 

 whom she re- 

 mained for the 

 rest of her 

 career and 

 whom she 

 married in 

 1916. She ac- 

 companied him 

 on his American 

 tours, and was his partner in the 

 Criterion, New, and Wyndham's 

 theatres. 



Moore, THOMAS (1779-1852). 

 Irish poet and biographer. Born in 

 Dublin, May 28, 1779, the son of a 

 grocer, he was educated at Trinity 

 College.andcameto London in 1799. 

 In London, as elsewhere, his en- 

 gaging personality and unusual gifts 

 quickly procured for him a large 

 circle of distinguished friends. A 

 volume entitled Poetical Works of 



Mary Moore, 

 British actress 



Claude Harrit 



the Late Thomas Little appeared 

 in 1801. In 1803 he was appointed 

 registrar of the Admiralty Court, 

 Bermuda, but returned to England 

 after a year, leaving a deputy in 

 charge. 



/ In 1806 appeared his Odes and 

 Epistles, which included the Cana- 

 dian Boat Song. A scathing criti- 

 cism in The Edinburgh Review led 

 to an abortive duel with Jeffrey 

 (q.v.), after which the two com- 

 batants became firm friends. In 

 1807 the publication began of the 

 Irish Melodies, with music by Sir 

 John Stevenson, upon which 

 Moore's fame largely rests. Like 

 all his poetry, they are tuneful, 

 graceful, but often artificial and 

 without depth. The Melodies 

 brought a fixed income of 500 a 

 year, the brilliant and enormously 

 successful Eastern poem Lalla 



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After Sir T. Lawrence 



Rookh (q.v.), 1817, brought 3,000, 

 and Moore enjoyed a vogue second 

 only to that of Byron. But the de- 

 fault of Moore's deputy in Ber- 

 muda for 6,000 brought financial 

 disaster, and Moore was compelled 

 to seek refuge in Paris till 1822. 

 He returned to London, and at his 

 country house, Sloperton Cottage 

 in Wiltshire, spent the remainder 

 of his life. In 1811 he married 

 Bessie Dyke (d. 1865), an actress. 

 The great work of the latter part 

 of Moore's life is his biography 

 of Byron, 1830, which, though 

 deficient on the critical side, 

 remains the standard authority. 

 He also issued an edition of Byron's 

 works, and wrote biographies of 

 Sheridan, 1825 ; and Lord Edward 

 FitzGerald, 1831. He received a 

 literary pension of 300 in 1835, 



