Background
The son of Edward Moises, Master of Arts, vicar of Wymeswold, Leicestershire, he was born there on 9 April 1722.
The son of Edward Moises, Master of Arts, vicar of Wymeswold, Leicestershire, he was born there on 9 April 1722.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1745, with a reputation as a classical scholar, and shortly elected a fellow of Peterhouse.
Educated first at Wrexham School in Denbighshire, he moved to Chesterfield grammar school, Derbyshire, under the Review Doctor Burroughs. In the same year he became an assistant in the school of his old teacher at Chesterfield, where he continued till 1749. In that year he proceeded Master of Arts Also in 1749, on the recommendation of Edmund Keene, Moises was appointed headmaster of Newcastle Free School, in succession to Richard Dawes.
The school at the time had few pupils, but Moises raised standards, becoming admired for his consistent approach.
In 1750 the corporation of Newcastle raised his salary, and on 21 April 1761 they appointed him to the morning-lectureship of All Saints" Church. On 14 June 1779, he was appointed master of Saint Mary"s Hospital, Newcastle.
After living at Greystoke for some years he resigned the rectory, at the patron"s request, and he spent the last years of his life in Newcastle. In 1801 he was appointed one of the chaplains to his old pupil Lord Eldon, who had become Lord Chancellor.
Moises died at his house in Northumberland Street, Newcastle, on 5 July 1806.
Among those Moises taught were some who became prominent figures: John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon. William Scott, Lord Stowell. And Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood.
Other pupils included:
John Brand
John Brewster
William Nicholas Darnell
John Marshall
George Walker
In 1810 a mural monument, executed by John Flaxman, with a Latin inscription composed by Sir William Scott, was erected to Moises in Street Mary"s porch, Street Nicholas"s Church.
The cost was raised by a subscription among his pupils. Moises married three times.