John Moore (archbishop of Canterbury)

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable John Moore
Archbishop of Canterbury

Church	Church of England
Province	Province of Canterbury
Diocese	Diocese of Canterbury
Elected	26 April 1783 (confirmation of election)^[1]
Term ended	18 January 1805 (death)
Predecessor	The Hon Frederick Cornwallis
Successor	Charles Manners-Sutton
Other posts	Dean of Canterbury (1771–1775) Bishop of Bangor (1774–1783)
Personal details
Born	(1730-04-26)26 April 1730 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Died	18 January 1805(1805-01-18) (aged 74) Lambeth, Surrey, England
Buried	St Mary-at-Lambeth
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford

Ordination history of John Moore
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Frederick Cornwallis (Canterbury)
Co-consecrators	Edmund Keene (Ely) Robert Lowth (Oxford) John Thomas (Rochester)
Date of consecration	12 February 1775
Place of consecration	Lambeth Palace Chapel
Source(s): ^[2]

John Moore (26 April 1730 – 18 January 1805) was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.

Life

Moore was the son of Thomas Moore, butcher, and his wife Elizabeth. He was born in Gloucester and was baptised in St. Michael's Church, Gloucester, on 13 January 1729-30. He was educated at the The Crypt School, Gloucester. He was a student at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated 1745; BA 1748; MA 1751).^[3]

Having taken holy orders, he was for some years tutor to Lords Charles and Robert Spencer, younger sons of the second Duke of Marlborough. On 21 September 1761, he was preferred to the fifth prebendal stall in the church of Durham, and in April 1763, to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. On 1 July 1764, he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. On 19 September 1771, he was made dean of Canterbury, and on 10 February 1775, bishop of Bangor.^[3]

On the death of Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis, he was translated to the see of Canterbury, 26 April 1783,^[4] on the joint recommendation of Bishops Robert Lowth and Richard Hurd, both of whom had declined the primacy. Though not a great ecclesiastic, Moore was an amiable and worthy prelate, a competent administrator, and a promoter of the Sunday-school movement and of missionary enterprise. He appears to have dispensed his patronage with somewhat more than due regard to the interests of his own family.^[3]

He died at Lambeth Palace on 18 January 1805, and was buried in Lambeth parish church.^[5]

Family

Moore married twice, first, a daughter of Robert Wright, chief justice of South Carolina ; secondly, on 23 January 1770, Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Eden, bart., of West Auckland. He left issue.^[3]

References

↑ Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 12 pp. 484–515
↑ Perceval, A.P. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession: with an Appendix on the English Orders p. 241 (Google Books)
1 2 3 4 Rigg 1894.
↑ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, III, viii. 89; III, iii. 14; III, iii. 11.
↑ Googlebooks: Lysons, "The Environs of London," vol 1

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1894). "Moore, John (1730-1805)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Sources

Aston, Nigel (Jan 2008) [Sep 2004]. "Moore, John (bap. 1730, d. 1805)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 Oct 2009.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Brownlow North	Dean of Canterbury 1771–1775	Succeeded by The Hon James Cornwallis
Preceded by John Ewer	Bishop of Bangor 1774–1783	Succeeded by John Warren
Preceded by The Hon Frederick Cornwallis	Archbishop of Canterbury 1783–1805	Succeeded by Charles Manners-Sutton

Deans of Canterbury

Early modern	Nicholas Wotton Thomas Godwin Richard Rogers Thomas Nevile Charles Fotherby John Boys Isaac Bargrave George Aglionby Thomas Turner John Tillotson John Sharp George Hooper George Stanhope Elias Sydall John Lynch William Freind John Potter Brownlow North John Moore The Hon James Cornwallis George Horne William Buller Folliott Cornewall

Late modern	Thomas Powys Gerrard Andrewes Hugh Percy Richard Bagot William Lyall Henry Alford Robert Payne Smith Frederic Farrar Henry Wace George Bell Dick Sheppard Hewlett Johnson Ian White-Thomson Victor de Waal John Simpson Robert Willis

Bishops of Bangor

Since 1908	Watkin Williams Daniel Davies Charles Green (Archbishop of Wales) David Edwardes Davies John Jones Gwilym Williams (Archbishop of Wales) Cledan Mears Barry Morgan Saunders Davies Anthony Crockett Andrew John

Archbishops of Canterbury

Pre-Conquest	Augustine Laurence Mellitus Justus Honorius Deusdedit Wighard Theodore of Tarsus Berhtwald Tatwine Nothhelm Cuthbert Bregowine Jænberht Æthelhard Wulfred Feologild Ceolnoth Æthelred Plegmund Athelm Wulfhelm Oda Ælfsige Byrhthelm Dunstan Æthelgar Sigeric the Serious Ælfric of Abingdon Ælfheah Lyfing Æthelnoth Eadsige Robert of Jumièges Stigand

Conquest–Reformation	Lanfranc Anselm Ralph d'Escures William de Corbeil Theobald of Bec Thomas Becket Roger de Bailleul Richard of Dover Baldwin of Forde Reginald Fitz Jocelin Hubert Walter Reginald John de Gray Stephen Langton Walter d'Eynsham Richard le Grant Ralph Neville John of Sittingbourne John Blund Edmund Rich Boniface William Chillenden Robert Kilwardby Robert Burnell John Peckham Robert Winchelsey Thomas Cobham Walter Reynolds Simon Mepeham John de Stratford John de Ufford Thomas Bradwardine Simon Islip William Edington Simon Langham William Whittlesey Simon Sudbury William Courtenay Thomas Arundel Roger Walden Thomas Arundel Henry Chichele John Stafford John Kemp Thomas Bourchier John Morton Thomas Langton Henry Deane William Warham Thomas Cranmer Reginald Pole

Post-Reformation	Matthew Parker Edmund Grindal John Whitgift Richard Bancroft George Abbot William Laud William Juxon Gilbert Sheldon William Sancroft John Tillotson Thomas Tenison William Wake John Potter Thomas Herring Matthew Hutton Thomas Secker Frederick Cornwallis John Moore Charles Manners-Sutton William Howley John Sumner Charles Longley Archibald Tait Edward Benson Frederick Temple Randall Davidson Cosmo Lang William Temple Geoffrey Fisher Michael Ramsey Donald Coggan Robert Runcie George Carey Rowan Williams Justin Welby

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