18 January 1805 A.D.  John Moore Dies—88^th of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury

John Moore (26 April 1730 – 18 January 1805) was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.

Contents 

• 1 Life
• 2 Family
• 3 References
• 4 Sources

Life

Moore was the son of George Moore, butcher, and his wife Jane. He was born in Gloucester and was baptised in St. Michael's Church, Gloucester, on 13 January 1729-30. He was educated at the The Crypt School, Gloucester. He was a student at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated 1745; BA 1748; MA 1751).^[3]

Having taken holy orders, he was for some years tutor to Lords Charles and Robert Spencer, younger sons of the second Duke of Marlborough. On 21 September 1761, he was preferred to the fifth prebendal stall in the church of Durham, and in April 1763, to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. On 1 July 1764, he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. On 19 September 1771, he was made dean of Canterbury, and on 10 February 1775, bishop of Bangor.^[3]

On the death of Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis, he was translated to the see of Canterbury, 26 April 1783,^[4] on the joint recommendation of Bishops Robert Lowth and Richard Hurd, both of whom had declined the primacy. Though not a great ecclesiastic, Moore was an amiable and worthy prelate, a competent administrator, and a promoter of the Sunday-school movement and of missionary enterprise. He appears to have dispensed his patronage with somewhat more than due regard to the interests of his own family.^[3]

He died at Lambeth Palace on 18 January 1805, and was buried in Lambeth parish church.^[5]

Family

Moore married twice, first, a daughter of Robert Wright, chief justice of South Carolina ; secondly, on 23 January 1770, Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Eden, bart., of West Auckland. He left issue.^[3]

References

1.       Jump up ^ Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 12 pp. 484–515

2.       Jump up ^ Perceval, A.P. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession: with an Appendix on the English Orders p. 241 (Google Books)

3.       ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d} Rigg 1894.

4.       Jump up ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, III, viii. 89; III, iii. 14; III, iii. 11. [1]

5.       Jump up ^ Googlebooks: Lysons, "The Environs of London," vol 1

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1894). "Moore, John (1730-1805)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

Sources

• Aston, Nigel (Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008). "Moore, John (bap. 1730, d. 1805)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 Oct 2009.  Check date values in: |date= (help)

Church of England titles
Preceded by Brownlow North	Dean of Canterbury 1771–1775	Succeeded by The Hon James Cornwallis
Preceded by John Ewer	Bishop of Bangor 1774–1783	Succeeded by John Warren
Preceded by The Hon Frederick Cornwallis	Archbishop of Canterbury 1783–1805	Succeeded by Charles Manners-Sutton