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Saturday, January 17, 2015

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


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


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



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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




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]


Attribution

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainRigg, 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)

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
Succeeded by
Charles Manners-Sutton

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