Background
Moore was born to Edward and Alice Moore in Bermondsey and attended Raine"s Foundation School.
Moore was born to Edward and Alice Moore in Bermondsey and attended Raine"s Foundation School.
He was the first pupil from the school to get a scholarship to Oxford (Corpus Christi) where he graduated with a B.Litt degree, with his dissertation on the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
He briefly joined the monastery at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight but left to visit Zambia and teach mathematics. In 1977, Moore joined the Dominicans as a novitiate. In 1995, Moore was elected prior of the Couvent de l’Epiphanie in Rixensart, Belgium.
In 2001, he returned to England and to Blackfriars, Oxford.
He was soon diagnosed with kidney cancer and died in 2002.