Background
The son of Henry Moore, minister of Treville Street presbyterian congregation, Plymouth, he was born at Plymouth on 30 March 1732. His mother was the daughter of William Bellew, of Stockleigh Court, Devon.
The son of Henry Moore, minister of Treville Street presbyterian congregation, Plymouth, he was born at Plymouth on 30 March 1732. His mother was the daughter of William Bellew, of Stockleigh Court, Devon.
His schoolmaster was John Bedford, later vicar of Saint Charles the Martyr, Plymouth. In 1749 he entered Philip Doddridge"s dissenting academy, then at Northampton, and, after Doddridge"s death moved on 9 November 1752 to the Daventry Academy under Caleb Ashworth. Here he was a fellow-student with Joseph Priestley.
He was at this time an Arian.
lieutenant was not until 6 July 1768 that he was ordained at Plymouth. He seems to have retired from active duty before 1792, when Thomas Morgan, one of the founders of the Western Unitarian Society, is described as minister at Liskeard.
Shortly before his death he became paralysed, when an edition of his poems by subscription was projected by John Aikin, but it was not published until some years after his death.
