medical men_ (1868) 115–21 _portrait_.
MOORE, WILLIAM DENNIS (son of Dennis Moore, physician). _b._
Exeter 27 Oct. 1804; admitted attorney Jany. 1828; sheriff of
Exeter 1844–45 and 1849–50; mayor 1847; town clerk 1865 to
death; said to be the first rifle volunteer in the country;
helped to form 1st Exeter volunteers about 1844, the first corps
in England, captain 8 April 1853, major 8 Feb. 1862 to March
1873; provincial grand sec. of the Freemasons nearly 40 years,
resided Pennsylvania, Exeter. _d._ Union hotel, Penzance, 21
Sept. 1874. _bur._ Exeter new cemetery, 26 Sept. _Trewman’s
Exeter Flying Post 23 and 30 Sept. 1874._
MOORE, SIR WILLIAM GEORGE (son of Francis Moore under sec. of
state for war). _b._ Petersham Nov. 1795; ed. at Harrow 1805
etc.; ensign 52 foot 18 April 1811, aide-de-camp to sir John
Hope at siege of Bayonne; wounded and taken prisoner at sortie
from Bayonne 14 April 1814; lieut. grenadier guards 30 Sep. 1814
to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; present at Waterloo; L.G. 5
June 1855; colonel commandant of 2 battalion of 60 royal rifles
26 Jany. 1856 to death; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Montrose house,
Petersham 23 Oct. 1862.
MOORE, WILLIAM YORKE. _b._ Plymouth 1806; ensign 39 foot 15
Dec. 1825, captain 19 July 1833; in the war with the rajah of
Coorg and present at siege of Coorg; captain 54 foot 1 May 1835,
lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; retired on full pay 5 Sept. 1856;
served in Canada, the West Indies and the Mediterranean; while
in Dominica fell with his horse over a precipice 200 feet high
and was not much hurt; M.G. 5 Sept. 1856; made considerable
collections of coins, which were on two occasions sold by
Sotheby and Wilkinson. _d._ 9 Jany. 1890. _Numismatic Chronicle_
(1890) 31.
MOORE, WILLOUGHBY. Cornet 3 dragoons 7 Sep. 1820; captain 6
dragoons 25 Nov. 1828, lieut.-col. 28 July 1843 to death; lost
on board the transport ship “Europa,” destroyed by fire about
200 miles from Plymouth on her way to the Crimea 1 June 1854;
his widow lady superintendent of officers hospital at Scutari
granted civil list pension of £100, Oct. 23, 1854 she _d._
Scutari 22 Nov. 1855. _G.M. xlii_ 302 (1854); _A.R._ (1854)
91–93.
MOOREHOUSE, WILLIAM SEFTON (eld. son of Wm. Moorehouse of
Knottingley, Yorkshire). _b._ Yorkshire 1825; barrister M.T.
Nov. 1850; went to Canterbury, New Zealand 1851, resident
magistrate at Canterbury 1853; superintendent of the province
1857–62 and 1866–70; registrar general of lands 1870–2; member
for Christ church in the general assembly; member for Ashley
1879 to death; founded the Canterbury museum. _d._ Sept. 1881.
MOORSOM, CONSTANTINE RICHARD (eld. son of admiral sir Robert
Moorsom, K.C.B. 1760–1835). _b._ 22 Sept. 1792; ed. at royal
naval college, Portsmouth 1807–9; entered navy 13 Nov. 1809;
commanded the Fury bomb at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug.
1816, when he fitted her mortars on a plan of his own which
was then adopted for the general service; captain 7 Dec. 1818;
senior officer at the Mauritius some time; captain of the Prince
Regent at Chatham 1825–7; V.A. on h.p. 10 Sept. 1857; a director
of London and north western railway, chairman Oct. 1852;
chairman of a committee on steamship performance, appointed by
British association to which he presented reports in 1859 and
1860; author of On the principles of naval tactics, privately
printed 1843, published 1846. _d._ Montagu place, Russell sq.
London 26 May 1861.
MOORSOM, WILLIAM. _b._ 1817; entered navy 28 June 1830; lieut.
of Cornwallis in first China war; captain 14 March 1851; captain
of Firebrand in Black sea; served with naval brigade in Crimea
during Russian war; capt. of Diadem frigate 1857–9; C.B. 5 July
1855; invented the shell with the percussion fuze, which bore
his name; invented the director, an instrument for directing
the concentration of a ship’s broadside; author of Suggestions
for the organisation and manœuvres of steam fleets 1854, and
supplement 1854; Remarks on the construction of ships of war
and the composition of war fleets 1857. _d._ Vernon terrace,
Brighton 4 Feb. 1860. _Memoir of captain William Moorsom_ 1860,
_privately printed_.
MOORSOM, WILLIAM ROBERT (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1834;
ensign 52 foot 17 Aug. 1852, lieut. 10 June 1853; A.D.C. to sir
Henry Havelock, and deputy assistant adjutant and quarter master
general of his division in Indian mutiny 1857; acted as quarter
master general of Outram’s division at siege of Lucknow; captain
13 foot 2 March 1858; his sketch-maps of the march to Lucknow,
and of the city, are now at the British Museum. _Killed_ during
an attack on the iron bridge at Lucknow 24 March 1858, a
monument erected to his memory by his regiment, is in Rochester
cathedral.
MOORSOM, WILLIAM SCARTH (brother of C. R. Moorsom 1792–1861).
_b._ Upper Stakesby near Whitby 1804; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign
79 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 7 foot 12 Feb. 1825 to 26 Jany.
1826; captain 52 foot 8 April 1826, sold out 2 March 1832;
visited and studied every railway and canal in England 1835–6;
surveyed and completed the railway line from Birmingham to
Gloucester 1836–40; laid out many railway lines in England and
Ireland 1844–8; designed the railway bridge over the Rhine at
Cologne 1850; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1835, M.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1849;
author of Letters from Nova Scotia 1830; On reorganising the
administration of India 1858; Historical records of the 52nd
Oxfordshire light infantry 1860, 2 ed. 1860, and of many
scientific papers. _d._ Great George st. Westminster 3 June