Career
He was a soldier for the East India Company, joining in 1782 as a cadet. He became a brevet-captain in 1796, having been wounded in 1791 at Dooridroog, a hill fort near Bangalore, and Gadjnoor (not Doridroog and Gadjmoor, as stated in the Dictionary of National Biography ). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1806.
She died on 13 December 1835 and was buried in the churchyard at Great Bealings on 19 December 1835.
He retired to Bealings House, Great Bealings, Suffolk in 1806. While Major Moor lived in Great Bealings he experienced what he believed was a ghostly ringing of the servants" bells in the house, and published his experience in the book "Bealings Bells", published in 1841.