Colonel Thomas Moore (c. 1669–1735) was an officer of the British Army who served as Paymaster of the Forces Abroad.
Biography
[edit]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 The grant was revoked on 3 October 1714,[6] following the death of Queen Anne.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]
References
[edit]- ^ Paula Watson and Perry Gauci, MOORE, Arthur (c.1666-1730), of Bloomsbury Square, Mdx., and Fetcham Park, Surr. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002).
- ^ Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, vol. iii (1896) p. 306.
- ^ Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. iv (1898) p. 66
- ^ Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. iv, p. 269.
- ^ Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. vi (1904) p. 153.
- ^ J. C. Sainty, Paymaster of Forces 1661-1836. Accessed 9 December 2018.
- ^ '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.