Person:Edward Moore (35)

« MOORE OF STOCKWELL.
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Lineage.
The Rev. Edward Moore, LL.B., vicar of Over, co. Chester, son of John More, was of a Lancashire family, and in descent, by a junior branch, from the Chancellor More, whose arms he bore. He was b. in 1696, and d. in 1755, leaving issue,
EDWARD, of whom presently.
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The eldest son,
Edward Moore, Esq. of Stockwell House, Surrey, lord of the manor of Leigh Priors Westbury, Wilts, a distinguished actor in the politics of his day, and the personal friend of Charles James Fox, and joint guardian with him of the late Lord Holland, m. 1st, Jane, dau. of Roger Rigge, Esq., (see Rigge OF Woodbroughton,) and had issue,
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Mr. Moore m. 2ndly, Sarah Gray, dau. of Joseph Saunders, Esq. of Ealing, and d. in 1792, aged 59, and had issue,
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Rev. Edward Moore, or More, LL.B., vicar of = Mary,
Over, co. Chester, son of John More, Esq., born 1696,
died 1755.
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EDWARD MOORE, Esq., of Stockwell House, co. Surrey, barrister-at-law, the personal friend of Fox and Sheridan, born 1735, and died 1792.
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« Pedigree of MOORE (claiming descent from the Chancellor, Sir Thomas More).
Arms of Moore. 1 and 4. Arg. a chevron engr. betw. three moorcocks. 2. On a chev. betw. three unicorns' heads erased sa. as many bezants. 3. Or three lions rampant purp. for Cresacre. / Crest. A moor's head, affrontée, ppr. wreathed round the temples, a jewel pendent in the ears, arg.
Rev. Edward Moore, LL.B. vicar of =|=
Over, co. Chester, son of John More,
b. 1696, d. 1755
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Edward Moore, esq. of the Inner Temple, of Stockwell House, Surrey, b. 1735, d. 1792
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5th Series x, Dec. 28, ’78
« LENGTH OF A GENERATION (5th S. ix. 488, 518; x. 95, 130, 157, 197, 315.)—After Lord Gort's notice of the fact of more than two centuries having been occupied by three generations in the family of Maud, the instance I can give in my own family may be hardly worth recording, although it exceeds those given by your other correspondents. My respected father is now living in the possession of all his faculties, and able to perform some part of his clerical and magisterial duties, and he was born in 1787. His father, Edward Moore, of Stockwell House, Surrey, was born in 1733, and his grandfather, Rev. Edward Moore, Vicar of Over, co. Chester, in 1696, making a period of 182 years, or rather more than double the traditional average of three successive generations.
C. T. J. Moore. / Frampton Hall, near Boston. »
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« ... Jane Rigge married in 1767, Edward Moore, of Stockwell, in Surrey; he was a son of the Vicar of Sedberg, and was educated at Sedberg Grammar School at the same time as his friend Fletcher Rigge; he was afterwards of Lincoln's Inn, reading for the bar, when he became Secretary to Henry, first Lord Holland, then prime minister, under whose patronage he compiled Moore's General Index to the Journals of the Lords and Commons of the Houses of Parliament. This work occupied him during several years, and for its public utility he received a vote of thanks of the House of Commons through the Speaker (afterwards Earl Brownlow), a grant of £10,000, and a silver urn. He afterwards held the offices of Paymaster of Army Widows' Pensions, Licenser of Hackney Coaches, and Receivership of South Wales.
His first wife Jane Rigge died in 1780, and he married, in 1782, Sarah Gray, daughter of Joseph Saunders, of Ealing, Middlesex, for his second wife, by whom he had a numerous family; and in the same year her sister Susannah Gray Saunders was married to Fletcher Rigge. Edward Moore died in 1792; by his wife Jane he left two sons, Stephen Roger, and Henry; the latter, a Major in the Fourth Dragoon Guards, died unmarried in 1810, and her share of the estate went to her eldest son, the late Stephen Roger Moore, of Sloane Street and Staple Inn, London, Solicitor to the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster; he married in 1786 Millicent Ann, daughter of John Windus, of Chancery Lane, Attorney-at-Law; she died in 1822, leaving an only child Millicent Ann, and he married secondly, in 1823, Miss Mary Kingsman, who died in 1855. Stephen Roger Moore died in 1841, and his share of the estate passed by his will to his only child Millicent Ann (now living), and who is the widow of the late Theophilus Fairfax Johnson, Esq., of Spalding, in Lincolnshire, who was High Sheriff of that county for the year 1847, and died in 1853. Their only son Theophilus Maurice Stephen Johnson married in 1849 Caroline, elder daughter of the late Gray Rigge, of Wood-Broughton; she died on July 16th, 1871, s.p. and is buried at Weston, near Spalding.
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« ... The estate was known as the manor of WESTBURY PRIORY. ... In 1778 Edward Moore held the manor court as lord of the manor, and from 1792–1810 the courts were held by Peter and Stephen Moore. (fn. 200) .... »
fn. 200: Ch. Com. (Church Commissioners) 145934.
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