MORETON, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev. William Moreton, Bishop of Meath, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir Richard Atkins, Bart.; bapt. 8 May 1683; adm.; KS (aqged 15) 1698; left 1701; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Mar 1702, matr. 1702; migrated to Trinity Coll. Dublin; BA 1708; MA 1711; ordained; Prebendary of Connor from 8 Apr 1731; buried St. John’s, Dublin 6 Apr 1736.

MORETON, ALBERT; b.; adm.; KS; in 1604 James I directed the electors to elect him to Trinity Coll. Cambridge at the next election, but the Master of Trinity refused to accept him on the ground of Moreton’s ignorance (CSPDom 1603-10, 185; Ball, Cambridge Papers, 54). This entry by G. F. Russell Barker and A. H. Stenning seems to relate to the future Sir Albertus Morton, a King’s Scholar at Eton, elected from there to King’s Coll. Cambridge. The CSP Dom entry is under the heading “The King to the Governors of [Westminster ?] College”, indicating that the word “Westminster” does not appear, or could not be read, in the document cited, and all that it says is that the King “requires them to prefer Albert Moreton, a scholar there, to Cambridge at the next election”, a phraseology perfectly compatible with this being a request that Albertus Morton should be elected from Eton to King’s, especially as a letter sent to the Westminster electors should have been addressed to the Dean of Westminster and not to a body of “Governors”. W. W. Rouse Ball believed that the request was for the election of Albert Moreton, whom he clearly did not identify as Albertus Morton, from Westminster to Trinity, and states that Neale declined the request on the ground of Moreton’s ignorance, but he does not cite a source for the statement about Neale, and it seems most unlikely that an Albert Moreton and an Albertus Morton were candidates for election from different schools to different Cambridge colleges more or less simultaneously]

MORER, THOMAS, son of Maurice Morer, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS 1668; failed to obtain election to either University 1670; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1671, aged 19; BA 1675; ordained; Vicar of Hillingdon, Middlesex 13 Nov 1677-96; Prebendary of Salisbury from 21 Jan 1687/8; Rector of St. Anne and St. Agnes, London, from 18 Apr 1696; m. Margaret, sister of James Heywood (qv); d. 20 Dec 1715.

MORECROFT, EDWARD, son of Rev. Ferdinand Morecroft, Rector of Stanhope, co. Durham, and Prebendary of Durham, and Margaret, dau. of Francis James DCL; b.; adm.; KS 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1636, matr. 15 Jul 1636, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1640; ordained; Rector of Redmarshall, co. Durham, from 23 Nov 1668; m. 3 Sep 1639 Jeronyma, dau. of James Hilton, Dyons, co. Durham; buried Redmarshall, co. Durham 18 Oct 1694.

MORECOCKE, THOMAS, son of Valentine Morecocke, Wilts.; bapt. Hungerford, Berks. 29 Dec 1611 (IGI) (as Murcocke); adm.; KS (aged 16) 1629; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1634, adm. scholar 1635, matr. Easter 1636; BA 1637/8; MA 1641; living 14 Jun 1647, when proved will of sister Naomi.

MORE, THOMAS; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540 (Chapter Muniments 6478).

MORDAUNT, HON. HARRY, brother of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (qv); b. 29 Mar 1663; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1676; tried at the Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with David Jones and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for murder of a bailiff, but acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680 – void 1687; BA 1684; Lieut. of a corps of Christ Church and other men who trained privately in Peckwater Quadrangle during the panic caused by Monmouth’s rebellion (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cii-ciii); adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1673/4; Col. of a Regt. of Foot 25 Apr 1694; Commander in Chief, Guernsey 1 Apr 1697; Treasurer of the Ordnance 8 Jun 1699 – Jun 1702, 28 May 1705 – Jun 1712, and from 2 Dec 1714; Brig. -Gen., 29 Aug 1704; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1706; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1709; MP Brackley Jan 1691/2-8, Jan 1700/1-2, 1705-8, Richmond from 1708; m. 1st, Margaret, natural dau. of Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart.; m. 2nd, Penelope, dau. of William Tipping, Ewelme, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Jan 1719/20 (M. I. Dauntsey, Wilts. ).

MOORE-MICHELL-ESMEADE, GRAHAM FRANCIS, brother of John Carrick Moore (qv); b. 17 Sep 1806; adm. 18 Sep 1815 (G); KS 1820; left 1820; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Apr 1824, matr. 1825; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 30 Jan 1835; assumed additional surname of Michell-Esmeade 14 Feb 1845; JP Wiltshire, High Sheriff 1851; lived mostly at Rome; d. 8 Oct 1883.

MOORE, THOMAS, son of John Moore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, North America, Attorney-General for Pennsylvania, and Rebecca, dau. of Daniel Axtell, South Carolina; b. 9 Sep 1689; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1705; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1709, adm. pensioner 24 Jun 1709, aged 18, scholar 22 Apr 1710; BA 1712/3; MA 1716; DD 1733 (incorp. Oxford 1753); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1715, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1716; ordained deacon 19 Jul, priest 25 Jul 1719 (both Rochester); Vicar of Chislehurst, Kent, from 25 Jul 1719; Perpetual Curate of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London, from 7 May 1722; Chaplain and Secretary to Francis Atterbury (qv); arrested 24 Aug 1722; examined before Privy Council 28 Feb 1723; imprisoned for a short time in Tower of London; President, Sion Coll., 1743-4; edited two volumes of Atterbury’s Sermons; m.; d. 19 Jul 1769.

MOORE, STEPHEN, second son of Richard Moore MP (I), Barne, co. Tipperary, and Henrietta, dau. of Right Hon. Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart., PC (I) MP (I); b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1763; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1767, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1767, aged 18, scholar 29 Apr 1768, matr. 1767; adm. Inner Temple 12 Dec 1767, called to bar 15 Jun 1774; High Sheriff, co. Tipperary 1786; d. unm. [Perhaps MP (I) Clonmel 1783-90, Lanesborough 1790-7, Kells 1798-1800; Comptroller-General, Ireland]. [note will Stephen Moore, Barne, Tipperary, proved PCC 18 Jul 1829]