Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill Moore (16 March 1893 – 21 January 1979) was an Irish

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, politician and author. Kingsmill Moore was born in

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to Canon Henry Kingsmill Moore, Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education, and Constance Turpin. He was educated at

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, Wiltshire and Trinity College Dublin. While he was Auditor of the

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spoke at the inaugural meeting of his session. Moore served in the

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from 1917 to 1918, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1918, to the Inner Bar in 1934, and became a bencher of

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in 1941. Also an author of highly regarded books on

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, Kingsmill Moore was elected for the Dublin University constituency as an

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member of Seanad Éireann for the

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from 1943 to 1944 and to the

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from 1944 to 1948. He resigned from the Seanad in 1947 on his appointment as a judge of the High Court. He was a judge of the

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from 1947 to 1951, and of the

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from 1951 to 1966. A Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize is given to students of Law at Trinity College Dublin scoring the highest marks of the first and second divisions.

References

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