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MOORE, GEORGE BRIDGES, eldest son of George Moore (adm. 1782, qv) and his second wife; b. 24 Nov 1808; adm. 20 Jun 1821 (G); KS 1822; left Nov 1825; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 Jun 1827; rowed in first boat race v. Cambridge 1829; BA 1830; MA 1836; ordained deacon 1833, priest 1834 (both Canterbury); Perpetual Curate of Iwade, Kent 1835-7; Rector of Tunstall, Kent, from 1837; JP Kent; m. 1st, 23 Apr 1835 Mary Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Ven. James Croft, Archdeacon of Canterbury; m. 2nd, 6 Aug 1838 Charlotte, dau. of Hon. and Rev. John Evelyn Boscawen; m. 3rd, 8 Sep 1853 Augusta, eldest dau. of Rev. John Russell DD, Prebendary of Canterbury and Head Master, Charterhouse Sch.; d. 13 Nov 1885.

MOORE, EDWARD, brother of Richmond Moore (qv); b. 5 Jan 1777; adm. 8 Jan 1787; KS 1791; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1795, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1795, scholar 8 Apr 1796; migrated to Christ’s Coll., fellow commoner 11 May – Mich. 1796; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Feb 1794; Writer, EICS Bengal 1796; arrived in India 8 Sep 1797; Assistant to Secretary, Board of Revenue 24 Nov 1797; Assistant to President, Board of Revenue 30 Oct 1800; Head Assistant to Secretary, and Assistant to Persian and Bengali Translator, Board of Revenue 3 Apr 1801; d. unm. at Cudjore, India 10 Sep 1801.

MOORE, CHARLES, younger son of John Moore, Woodford, Essex, and Southgate, Middlesex, and Judith, eldest dau. of John Bailey, citizen and salter, London; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1731/2; Min. Can. 1738; KS 1739; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1740; unm.; buried St. Andrew’s, Holborn 1756. [note will Charles Moore, not otherwise identified, proved PCC 9 Dec 1755]

MOORE, CHARLES EVERARD, son of Edward Moore, London; b. 5 Jan 1834; adm. 20 Jan 1845; QS 1848; left Aug 1849; commercial clerk, Leeds, Yorks. (1881 Census, then unm. ).

MOORE, ARTHUR, second son of Arthur Moore MP, one of Comptrollers of Army Accounts and director, South Sea Company, and his second wife Theophila, dau. of William Smythe, Inner Temple, Paymaster, Band of Pensioners; bapt. 1 Aug 1700; adm.; Min. Can. 1714; KS 1715; some interesting extracts from his school bill for 21 Dec 1714 – 21 Jun 1715 are printed Notes and Queries, 5th series, xii, 365; adm. Inner Temple 6 May 1715; Joint Paymaster of Gentlemen Pensioners, from 31 May 1718; m.; d. 11 Jun 1734.

Moonan, Reginald Francis Lyon, son of William Herbert Moonan, of East Sheen, Surrey, barrister-at-law, by Florence Ida, daughter of Henry Loder Hancock Lyon, of Bond Street, London; b. Dec. 11, 1902; adm. as K.S. Sept. 21, 1916; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1921, matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1924; employed with J. and P. Coats and Co., in Vienna; d. 1 July 1980.

Moonan, Denis Lyon Morton, brother of Reginald Francis Lyon Moonan (q.v.); b. Nov. 29, 1904; adm. as K.S. Sept. 27, 1917; got the Pancake in 1919, when the King and Queen were present; left July 1921; Christ's Coll. Camb., matric. Oct. 1924; a musician; m. 1931 Eileen Winifred Coysh, dau. of Herbert George Maurice Smith.

MONTFORDE, JOHN, son of Rev. Thomas Montforde DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Tewin, Herts., and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1594, adm. scholar 1594; BA 1598/9; MA 1602; BD 1610; DD 1620; ordained; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 14 Nov 1618; Rector of Thorley, Herts., 1619; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 1633-4; Rector of Anstey, Herts., 1 Aug 1640 – ejected 1643; Vicar of Therfield, Herts., 8 Aug 1640 – ejected 1643; Prebendary of Ely from 1643; m. Joan ---; d. 1 Nov 1651.

Montagu, The Hon. Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, brother of Stuart Albert Samuel Montagu (q.v.), 3rd Baron Swaythling; b. April 23, 1904; adm. Sept. 27, 1917; K.S. (non-resident) 1918 (G); left July 1919; Royal Coll. of Science, London Univ.; King's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1924; a zoologist, film technician and journalist; M.A. 1930; secretary of the World Peace Council; awarded the Order of Liberation (1st class) of Bulgaria 1952; a Lenin Peace Prize at Moscow 1959; Order of the Pole Star, Mongolian People's Republic, April 22, 1961; president of the International Table Tennis Federation and the English Table Tennis Assn.; author of Land of Blue Sky, A Portrait of Modern Mongolia (1956); m. Jan. 10, 1927, Eillen, daughter of Francis Anton Hellstern; d. 5 Nov. 1984.

MONTAGU, EDWARD WORTLEY, illegitimate son of Edward Wortley Montagu (b. 1713, qv), and Elizabeth Ashe (whom he had married bigamously in 1751); b.; adm. (Burges); KS (aged 11) 1763; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1768, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1768 – void 24 Jun 1772 (already absent from Christ Church at 21 Dec 1771); punished for riot and not giving up collections 15 Dec 1769; Cadet, EICS Madras 12 Jun 1771; “joined the Infantry on arrival at Fort St. George” [presumably Native Infantry, check]; res. 31 Jul 1777, on hearing of his father’s death, and set off for England; by his will dated 25 Nov 1777 he bequeathed his father’s MSS to John English Dolben (qv), with the request that the profits that should arise from their publication should be given to his old dame, Mrs Anne Burges, formerly of Great Smith Street, Westminster, “as a small acknowledgement for the more than motherly kindness with which she treated me during the ten years I was in her house while at Westminster School”; drowned in the shipwreck of the vessel in which he was returning home 1777. Mural monument to his memory, erected by Dolben, in West Cloister.