Background
Moore was born at Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1729. He was the son of a clergyman.
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John Moore
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After taking his medical degree at Glasgow, he served with the army in Flanders, then proceeded to London to continue his studies, and eventually to Paris, where he was attached to the household of the British ambassador.
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His novel Zeluco (1789), a close analysis of the motives of a selfish profligate, produced a great impression at the time, and indirectly, through the poetry of Byron, has left an abiding mark on literature.
Byron said that he intended Childe Harold to be " a poetical Zeluco, " and the most striking features of the portrait were undoubtedly taken from that character.
His Journal during a Residence in France (1793) is the careful record of an eye-witness, and is frequently referred to by Carlyle.
