Edward Alfred Livingstone Moore

The  Right Rev.  Edward Alfred Livingstone Moore , [Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin) |MA]]  was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1925 to 1937. [1]

Moore was born in Oxford on 13 November 1870 into an ecclesiastical family. [2] He was educated at Marlborough and Oriel College, Oxford. [3] He was ordained in 1895 [4] and began his career as a curate in Aston. Later he was a CMS Missionary in southern India and then He was Principal of the society’s Divinity School in Madras[5] and then Chairman of its Tinnevelly operations until his elevation to the episcopate. Returning to England he was Vicar of Horspath from 1938 until [6] his death on 22 Sept ember 1944.

He has a school named after him in India.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ British Library
  2. ^ His father was the Rev. Edward Moore, DD sometime Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Canon of Canterbury > “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  3. ^ University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, Jan 21, 1889; pg. 7; Issue 32601
  4. ^ Ordinations Worcester The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Sep 24, 1895; pg. 4; Issue 34690
  5. ^ Mundus
  6. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  7. ^ School web site
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles Hope Gill		 Bishop of Travancore and Cochin
1925–1937		 Succeeded by
Bernard Conyngham Corfield
Bishops of Travancore and Cochin
Churches in the Anglican Communion