Person:Peter Moore (9)

Sedbergh Parish Registers – Part I. Baptisms (pp. 1-244) - p. 168
« Peter & Bernard Sons of the Reverend M^r Moore Curate born y^e 12 & baptized 13^th Feb  »
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Yorkshire, England, Selected Parish Registers, 1594-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. /
Original data: Arthur T. Winn, M.A.. The Registers of the Parish Church of Sedbergh, 1594-1800. Sedbergh, England: Jackson & Son, 1911.
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Entrances in 1760-1770: « Moore, Peter, son of Edward Moore, LL.B.; born at Sedbergh February 12th, 1753. He went out to India in the East India Co.'s service. He was a strong opponent of Warren Hastings, and furnished Burke and Sheridan with much material for his indictment. He was M.P. for Coventry in 1803, and took a prominent part in the Westminster election of 1804 as the proposer of C.J. Fox. He was an active promoter of public works, and is said to have been one of the most adroit men at getting a private bill through Parliament. He belonged to the Radical section of the Whigs, but was intimate with all the leading men in the Party. He appears to have lent his name rather too freely to various companies, and eventually retired to the Continent, and died at Abbeville, May 5th, 1828. He is said to have been the last wearer of a pig-tail in London society. »
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Sedbergh School Register 1546-1895 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. / Original data: Sedbergh School Register 1546-1895. Leeds, England: Richard Jackson, 1895. > Accessed at: ancestry.co.uk/

« MOORE, PETER (1758-1828), politician, born at Sedbergh in Yorkshire on 12 Feb. 1753, was youngest son, by Mary his wife, of Edward Moore, LL.B., vicar of Over in Cheshire, who claimed descent by a junior branch from Sir Thomas More, whose quartered arms he bore. ... He died at Abbeville in France on 5 May 1828. He is stated to have been the last wearer of a pigtail in London society. .... »
Source Information: Ancestry.com. '.Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22'. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–20, 22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922. > Accessed at: ancestry.co.uk/

« Moore, Peter (1753–1828), politician, was born on 12 February 1753 at Sedbergh, Yorkshire, the second son of the Rev^d Edward Moore (d. 1755), vicar of Over, Cheshire, and his wife, Mary. He was two years old when his father died and so was educated at Sedbergh School under the aegis of Edward Moore, his elder brother by eighteen years, ... Moore went to India in 1769 as a writer, and subsequently as collector, factor, and commissioner of police in the East India Company's service. ...
Moore arrived back in England in July 1785 with a substantial fortune and settled at Hadley, Middlesex, as lord of the manor. ... In 1802 he contested (the parliamentary seat of) Coventry without success, but he won a by-election there in March 1803. ... When he lost his seat in parliament in 1826 he had to flee to Dieppe to escape arrest for debt. He surrendered most of his assets to his creditors and never returned to England. ... Moore died at Abbeville on 5 May 1828. »
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« MOORE, Peter (1753-1828), of Edward Street, Mdx. / Constituency: COVENTRY / Dates: 30 Mar. 1803 - 1826.
« b. 12 Feb. 1753, 2nd s. of Rev. Edward Moore, LLB, vicar of Over, Cheshire (d. 1755), and w. Mary. educ. Sedbergh. ... Writer, E.I. Co. (Bengal) 1768; asst. in collector gen.’s office 1770, dep. collector 1771; factor and sec. to bd. of revenue 1774; member, bd. of revenue 1776; jun. merchant 1777; first in council, Murshidabad 1780; sen. merchant 1780; collector, Calcutta 1782; commr. of police 1783-4; home 1785. ... he died in May 1828 at his home in St. Valery sur Somme, near Abbeville, .... »
> Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 / Available from Cambridge University Press
> Accessed at: historyofparliamentonline.org/

« DEATH OF MR. PETER MOORE.—From the Globe.*— On the 5th inst. died, in France, at Abbeville, Mr. Peter Moore, aged 76. He was, for 25 years, the representative of Coventry, and during a much longer period had taken an active part in the most important political transactions of the day. He was the son of a respectable clergyman, and in early life life went out to India, in the service of the East India Company. He there made an ample fortune. His friends say he might have made one much more considerable, had he been unscrupulous as to the means as are the great majority of those who go out in official capacities to our colonies. Certain it is, he objected to many of the transactions of Warren Hastings, during whose administration he resided in India, and that on his return furnished to Burke and Sheridan important materials for their memorable attack upon that Governor. He became, from this circumstance, connected with the leading members of the Whig opposition, and maintained a successful contest for Coventry. This contest cost him £25,000, in securing the "freedom and independence" of that city. He was re-elected for subsequent Parliaments at comparatively little expense. From the first to the last he was a thorough Whig, but during later years was chiefly distinguished as the most active promoter of various public works. The first was the erection of Drury-lane Theatre. He was made Chairman the Committee for its management. The transactions of his administration in that capacity, the circumstances of his co-operation with Sheridan, and of the general line of theatrical politics, would of themselves fill a volume. The next undertaking which he promoted was the Highgate Tunnel. He was the most successful promoter of the Imperial Gas Light Company. He carried the bills for their incorporation through Parliament, and was made their Deputy Chairman. In getting a Bill through the House, he was one of the most adroit and successful men ever known. He conducted the opposition made by the Imperial and other Coal Gas Companies against the promoters of an Oil Gas Company, and defeated them with a loss of about £30,000. On his side only £15,000 were lost. He lost the last election for Coventry, in consequence of some local disputes. The majority of the Electors are silk-weavers, and they suspected that in a contest for high wages their two old members (Messrs. Moore and Ellice) had favoured the master-weavers. The Corporation or Tory party took care to increase this suspicion; and by plying the electors with gin and beer, carried the election. This event weighed heavily on Mr. Moore's mind. The known aptitude of Mr. Moore caused him to be much courted during the years 1824 and 1825 by the projectors of new companies. He had by no means lent his name to them indiscriminately, and his friends offer evidence of the sincerity of his profession of belief in the stability of those which he did adopt. As he had been one of the most conspicuous in other companies, he was made the scape-goat for the sins of a multitude of jobbers, and was so assailed by legal process from all sides, that he was compelled to fly to the Continent, for here there was no hope of his last days being spent outside a prison. He first resided at Dieppe. He occupied himself in writing the memoirs of his own life and times, but his mind was much harassed by his reverses and his anxieties respecting the affairs in which he had been engaged in England. He has left one son, who is at present in India, and two daughters, one of whom is married, and both respectably provided for. »
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NOTE *: "The Globe was a British (London) newspaper founded in 1803 by Christopher Blackett. It merged with the Pall Mall Gazette in 1921. Under the ownership of Robert Torrens during the 1820s it supported radical politics, ...." See: wikipedia.org/

« Mr. Peter Moore is dead——he died at Abbeville, where, after having risen from small beginnings, to be Member for Coventry, and a personal friend of the late Queen Caroline, he fell again out of Parliament into difficulties, and having got entangled in the absurd speculations of the panic year, went to France, and by a species of intuition peculiar to Whiggery, proposed to teach languages and sciences to the youth of both sexes; he also occupied himself in writing his auto-biography, but died before his life was ended. The French say—Pauvre More—il est Mort—which means no more. »
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MY NOTE: When I read this I smiled, and said within myself, "Surely this Dublin man is from Limerick!" Can't help but love it though – even if it does leave me feeling a bit ‘entangled in the absurd’ myself. And did the writer intend the phrase: “died before his life was ended” to mean Mr. Peter Moore had failed to 'live all the days of his life'? But at least he would never have abandoned the Whigs to join up with the Tories! ——R.C.A.