Author: MOORE, George
Biography:
MOORE, George (1803-80: ODNB)
The Minstrel’s Tale, and Other Poems (1826) was the first publication and the only poetical work of a young medical student just embarking on a fruitful career. His preface expresses the usual anxiety about critics but urges the claims of nature, virtue, and benevolence. Several of the minor poems take their inspiration from Plymouth landmarks. Moore was born in Plymouth on 11 Mar. 1803 and baptised at Charles the Martyr on 30 Mar., the son not of William Moore but of George Moore and his wife Susanna Shepherd, who had married at Thurlestone, Devon, in 1794. On 25 Dec. 1824 at Charles the Martyr he married Jane Ann Toms, but she died aged 23 and was buried at the same church on 23 Apr. 1826; there were no children. Moore studied medicine in London and Paris, becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in London in 1829, Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (LSA) in 1830, MD (St. Andrews) in 1841, and first Licentiate and then Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1843 and 1859 respectively. On 1 June 1830 he married Hannah Green (1804-45) at St. Mary’s, Lambeth, London; they lived in Camberwell, where he practised for eight years and where their first child was born. In 1838 they moved to Hastings, Sussex, for the sake of Moore’s health. There two more children were born but their mother died in 1845. From 1848 to 1857 Moore took partial retirement in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, but he returned with his family to Hastings and resumed his practice. In the 1851 census he was still a widower living with his three children, but by 1861 and again in 1871 he gave his status as married. The name of his third wife and details of the marriage are not certain: she might have been Charlotte Morris, married at St. Marylebone, London, on 12 Apr. 1855. Moore died at Hastings on 30 Oct. 1880, leaving an estate valued at under £7000. He was the author of books on a range of subjects from health and medicine through psychology to the history of religions, the most frequently reprinted being The Power of the Soul over the Body (1845). (ODNB 18 Feb. 2024; ancestry.com 18 Feb. 2024; findmypast.com 18 Feb. 2024) HJ