Background
Moule was born on 30 May 1832 at Fordington, Dorset, where his father was vicar.
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Horatio Moule
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Trinity College.
Career
In 1851 he entered Trinity College, Oxford, but left without a degree. In 1854 he entered Queens" College, Cambridge, but did not get a Bachelor of Arts until 1867 and an Master of Arts in 1873. He spent a brief spell as an assistant master at Marlborough College, and then became a government inspector of workhouses.
Some of "s poems were dedicated to Moule, and it has been suggested that several characters and scenes in his novels were inspired by him.
Henry Knight in A Pair of Blue Eyes shares many of Moule"s character traits.
