Hugo or Hugh Moises (9 April 1722 – 5 July 1806) was a notable English

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Life

The son of Edward Moises, M.A., vicar of

Wymeswold Wymeswold () is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood (borough), Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. It is in the north of Leicestershire, and north-east of Loughborough. The village has a population of about 1,000, measured ...

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, he was born there on 9 April 1722. Educated first at Wrexham School in

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, he moved to

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, under the Rev. Dr. Burroughs. In 1741 he went to

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, where his elder brother Edward Moises, later vicar of

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, was a fellow. He graduated B.A. in 1745, with a reputation as a classical scholar, and shortly elected a fellow of

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. In the same year he became an assistant in the school of his old teacher at Chesterfield, where he continued till 1749. In that year he proceeded M.A. Also in 1749, on the recommendation of

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, Moises was appointed headmaster of Newcastle Free School, in succession to Richard Dawes. The school at the time had few pupils, but Moises raised standards, becoming admired for his consistent approach. In 1750 the corporation of Newcastle raised his salary, and on 21 April 1761 they appointed him to the morning-lectureship of

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. On 14 June 1779, he was appointed master of St. Mary's Hospital, Newcastle. In 1787 Moises was presented to the rectory of Greystoke, Cumberland, and resigned the mastership of the school, after nearly 40 years; he was succeeded by his nephew, the Rev. Edward Moises, M.A., who was vicar of Hart and Hartlepool from 1811. After living at Greystoke for some years he resigned the rectory, at the patron's request, and he spent the last years of his life in Newcastle. In 1801 he was appointed one of the chaplains to his old pupil Lord Eldon, who had become

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. Moises died at his house in Northumberland Street, Newcastle, on 5 July 1806. His memorial in

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was sculpted by

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Pupils

Moises taught the following prominent figures:

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;

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; and

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. Other pupils included: * John Brand * John Brewster * William Nicholas Darnell *

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* George Walker

Memorial

In 1810 a mural monument, executed by

, with a Latin inscription composed by Sir William Scott, was erected to Moises in St Mary's porch, St Nicholas's Church. The cost was raised by a subscription among his pupils.

Family

Moises married three times. His first wife was Margaret, the sister of Matthew Ridley the Member of Parliament; they were wed in 1754. In 1758 he married Isabel Ellison, and they had a son, Hugh (died 1822). In 1764 he married again Ann Boag, and they had a son William Bell.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Moises, Hugh 1722 births 1806 deaths Schoolteachers from Leicestershire 18th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge People from Wymeswold Heads of schools in England People educated at Chesterfield Grammar School