This article is about the 18th century officer. For the early 20th-century British Army officer, see
Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet. For the mid-20th century British Army officer and COVID-19 fundraiser born 1920, see
Captain Tom.
Moore was the younger brother of
Arthur Moore, an Irishman of obscure origin who became successful in the City of London.[1] On 10 August 1693 he was commissioned as ensign of
Sir Charles Hara's company of the
1st Regiment of Foot Guards.[2] He was further promoted to lieutenant (with the rank of captain) on 1 August 1695,[3] and to captain in the
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards (with the rank of lieutenant-colonel) on 25 January 1702.[4] On 29 March 1708 he succeeded Thomas Allen as colonel of a regiment of Foot. His regiment was disbanded in 1713,[5] and on 4 September that year he was granted the post of
Paymaster of the Forces Abroad. The grant was revoked on 3 October 1714,[6] following the death of Queen Anne. In 1729 Moore purchased the manor of
Polesden from his elder brother Arthur.[7] He died unmarried in 1735, aged 66, and was buried in a vault of St Nicolas' Church,
Great Bookham, on 25 March. His heir was his nephew
William.[8]
^'Parishes: Great Bookham', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H. E. Malden (London, 1911), pp. 326-335.
British History Online. Accessed 9 December 2018.
^Monument in St Nicolas Church, Great Bookham, quoted in E. W. Brayley, A Topographical History of Surrey, vol. iv (1841)
p. 477.