Background
Moore, David Moresby was born on July 26, 1933 in Barnard Castle, Durham, England. Son of Moresby George and Elizabeth (Grange) Moore.
Moore, David Moresby was born on July 26, 1933 in Barnard Castle, Durham, England. Son of Moresby George and Elizabeth (Grange) Moore.
Moore spent two years in Australia after his Doctor of Philosophy, working as a research officer for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.
The eldest of 4 brothers, Moore developed an early interest in the natural world as he explored his native Teesdale, an area of the United Kingdom which he loved his entire life. He was schooled at Barnard Castle School, and went on to University College, Durham, where he undertook postgraduate research under David Henriques Valentine. He then spent the following two years as a research fellow at the University of California, Los Los Angeles
He lectured in botany at the University of Leicester from 1961 to 1968.
At Leicester, Moore became involved with the editorial group of the Flora Europaea, which covered all flowering plants and ferns in Europe. Moore was its secretary-general for four years.
lieutenant has been said that Moore helped to "lay the groundwork for out understanding of.. the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom". In the early 1960s, Moore embarked on an extensive field study of the Falkland Islands.
Amongst his discoveries was a new plant species unique to the islands, Plantago moorei ("Moore"s plantain"), which bears his name.
His efforts culminated in the publication in 1968 through the British Antarctic Survey of The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands – a definitive work in the field In 1968, Moore moved to the University of Reading, then a leading research and training centre for plant taxonomy and systematics. Whilst there, Moore became interested in the flora of Spain.
Moore stayed at Reading up until the end of his career, and in 1976 was promoted to a personal professorship.
Moore"s knowledge of the Falklands became of strategic importance in 1982, when he advised the British Ministry of Defence on the topography and climate of the islands as the British planned to re-gain the Falkland Islands following the Argentinian invasion. His specialities were said to be Spermatophytes (also called Phanerogams).
Member Society Study Evolution, British Ecological Society, Botanical Society British Isles, Sociedad Botánica de Argentina, Linnean Society London.
Married Ida Elizabeth Shaw, July 26, 1957. Children: Wayne Peter, Lloyd Randal.