Edward Moore (dramatist)

Edward Moore (22 March 1712 – 1 March 1757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire.

He was the author of Fables for the Female Sex (1744), The Trial of Selim the Persian (1748), The Foundling (1748) and Gil Blas (1751). He wrote the domestic tragedy of The Gamester, originally produced in 1753 with Garrick in the leading character of Beverley the gambler. It is upon The Gamester that Moore's literary reputation rests; the play was much-produced in England and the United States in the century after Moore's death. The oft-quoted phrase "rich beyond the dreams of avarice" is spoken by Mrs. Beverley in the play's second act.

As a poet he produced clever imitations of John Gay and Thomas Gray, and with the assistance of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton, Lord Chesterfield and Horace Walpole, conducted The World (1753–1757), a weekly periodical on the model of the Rambler.

Moore collected his poems under the title of Poems, Fables and Plays in 1756. He died in Lambeth on 1 March 1757. His Dramatic Works were published in 1788.

Edward Moore

Edward Moore may refer to:

Edward Moore (cricketer) (born 1993), South African cricketer

Edward Moore (dramatist) (1712–1757), English dramatist

Edward Mott Moore (1814–1902), American surgeon

Edward Moore (scholar) (1838–1916), English scholar, educator and writer

Edward Moore (priest, born 1844) (1844–1921), Archdeacon of Oakham

Edward E. Moore (died 1940), American politician in 1920s

Edward Caldwell Moore (1857–1943), American theologian

Edward Moore (English bishop) (1870–1944), English Anglican colonial bishop

Edward H. Moore (1871–1950), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma

Edward Roberts Moore (1894–1952), American priest and author

Edward Moore (rower) (1897–1968), American rower in 1920 Olympics

Edward Moore (Irish bishop) (1906–1997), Irish Anglican bishop

Edward F. Moore (1925–2003), American mathematician

Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda (1701–1758), Anglo-Irish peer and politician

Edward George Moore (1798–1876), Canon of Windsor

Edward Moore (rower)

Edward Peerman Moore (October 20, 1897 – February 9, 1968) was an American rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

In 1920 he was part of the American boat from the United States Naval Academy, which won the gold medal in the eights.

He graduated from USNA in 1921.

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Edward Moore (English bishop)

The Right Reverend Edward Alfred Livingstone Moore, MA was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1925 to 1937.

Moore was born in Oxford on 13 November 1870 into an ecclesiastical family. He was educated at Marlborough and Oriel College, Oxford and was ordained in 1895.

Moore began his career as a curate in Aston, became a CMS Missionary in southern India, Principal of the society’s Divinity School in Madras, and progressed to become Chairman of its Tinnevelly operations until his elevation to the episcopate. Returning to England he was Vicar of Horspath from 1938 until his death on 22 September 1944.

Several schools in India are named after Moore.

Early life

Edward Alfred Livingstone Moore was the eldest son of Dr Edward Moore, the Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was born in England in 1870.

Bishop Moore received his MA from the University of Oxford, and shortly after became a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society in India.

Career

When he was 32 years old, he became the Principal of the CMS College, Kottayam. After a few years at Kottayam, he left the principal position. For the following 8 years, he was a Missionary in Tamil Nadu. Bishop Moore learned to speak Tamil and Malayalam. In February 1925, Moore was ordained as the 4th Bishop of the Diocese of Travancore-Cochin and he took charge of the Diocese at Kottayam in the same year. He was determined to end the caste system that was prevalent everywhere. He created history by ordaining two clergymen from the "backward classes". He established many community schools in different parts of the Diocese. The community school at Ranny was established as early as 1928 where the inmates trained in self-employment schemes.