John Moore (1730 – 18 January 1805) was an English clergyman who was

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in the

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Life

Moore was the son of George Moore, a butcher, and Jane Cook. He was baptised at St. Michael's Church, Gloucester on 13 January 1730. He was educated at

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. He was a student at

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(matriculated 1745; BA 1748; MA 1751). After ordination, Moore was for some years tutor to

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and

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, the younger sons of Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough. On 21 September 1761, he was preferred to the fifth prebendal stall in the church of

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and, in April 1763, to a canonry at

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. On 1 July 1764, Moore received the degrees of B.D. and D.D. In September 1771, he was made

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, and in February 1775,

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. On the death of Archbishop

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, Moore was translated to the

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on 26 April 1783, on the joint recommendation of bishops

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and Richard Hurd, both of whom had declined the primacy. Moore was a competent administrator and a promoter of the Sunday-school movement and missionary efforts. Moore died at

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on 18 January 1805 and was buried in Lambeth parish church.

Family

Moore married twice, first, a sister of James Wright; secondly, on 23 January 1770, Catherine, daughter of Robert Eden, of West Auckland. He left children.

Discovery of his coffin

In 2017, during the refurbishment of the

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, which is housed at the medieval church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, 30 lead coffins were found; one with an archbishop's red and gold mitre on top of it. A metal plate identified one of these as belonging to Moore, with another being that of his wife Catherine.

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'Lost in Lambeth: the tombs that time forgot' p17 Issue no 2,913 dated

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16 April 2017

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