John Moore (British author)

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John Moore (10 November 1907 – 1967) was a British author and pioneer conservationist.

He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire in 1907 and died in Bristol in 1967.

His most famous work was Portrait of Elmbury, published in 1945, about life in Tewkesbury in the early 20th century. This work, along with Brensham Village and The Blue Field, formed part of the 'Brensham Trilogy'.

Most of his books had a rural setting and long before conservation came to mainstream media attention he wrote about the effect of technology on the countryside.

In 1949 he helped to inaugurate the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and continued to be involved with the festival for many years.

[edit] Works

Dixon's Cubs (1930)
The book of the fly-rod (ed, with Hugh Sheringham) (1931)
Dear Lovers (1931)
Tramping through Wales (1931)
English Comedy (1932)
King Carnival
The walls are down (1933)
The Welsh Marches (1933)
The New Forest (1934)
Country Men (Biography) (1935)
The angler's week-end book (ed, with Eric Taverner) (1935)
The Cotswolds (1937)
Overture, Beginners!
Clouds of Glory (1938)
A walk through Surrey (1939)
The Countryman's England (1939)
Life and letters of Edward Thomas (ed) (1939)
Wit's end (1942)
Fleet air arm (history) (1943)
Escort carrier (1944)
The navy and the Y scheme (1944)
Portrait of Elmbury (1945)
Brensham village (1946)
The blue field (1948)
Dance and skylark (1951)
Midsummer meadow (1953)
Tiger, tiger (short stories) (1953)
The season of the year (1954)
The white sparrow (1954)
The boy's country book (ed) (1955)
Come rain, come shine (1956)
September moon (1957)
Jungle Girl (1958)
Man and bird and beast (1959)
You English words (1961)
The Elizabethans (1962)
The year of the pigeons (1963)
Best fishing stories (1965)
The waters under the earth (1965)

[edit] Memorials

John Moore is fondly remembered by Tewkesbury and his name and that of Elmbury lives on.

Near to Tewkesbury Abbey is the John Moore Countryside Museum.
In the 1960s the name Elmbury was given to the new Secondary Modern School for Girls on the Ashchurch Road; in September 1972 the school buildings became the nucleus of today's Tewkesbury School (Comprehensive).
In September 2000 the name "The John Moore Primary School" was given to the newly built primary school on the Wheatpieces estate.
In January 2001 a new unit was opened at Tewkesbury Hospital and given the name "Elmbury Suite".
In 2004 a new public house opened to the East of Tewkesbury near Junction 9 of the M5 Motorway called "Elmbury Lodge".
The local branch of the Embroiderers' Guild is called the "Elmbury (Tewkesbury) Branch".