Moore
Moore names 10 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Moore THOMAS, an Irish poet
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an Irish poet; born in Dublin, Ireland, May 28, 1779. He was the son of a Catholic grocer. From the school where Sheridan had been educated, he passed in 1794 to Trinity College, and thence, after taking his B. A., A., in 1799, to the Middle Temple, London. His translation of Anacreon came out in 1800. It proved a great hit. In 1801 followed the "Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little." In 1803, through Lord Moira's influence, he was appointed registrar of the Admiralty court at Bermuda. For his " Odes and Epistles " (1806) he was sharply taken to task in the "Edinburgh." The bulletless duel with Jeffrey was the consequence, but which left the non-combatants fast friends for life. In 1811 he married an actress, Bessy Dyke (1793-1865). Meanwhile he had published the earlier of the "Irish Melodies" (10 parts, 1807-1834), and "The Twopenny Post-bag" (1812). In 1817 "Lalla Rookh" appeared. Longmans paid him $15,000; the "Irish Melodies" brought in $2,500 a year; and about this time his Bermuda deputy embezzled $30,000. Moore's liability was ultimately paid by his pen; but in 1819, to avoid arrest, he went to Italy. He settled in Paris, where he wrote "The Loves of the Angels" (1823) and a prose romance, "The Epicurean" (1827). He returned in 1822, producing in the succeeding years "Memoirs of Captain Rock" (1824), the "History of Ireland" (1827), "Lives" of Sheridan (1825), Byron (1830), and Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831). In 1835 he received a pension of $1,500, but his last days were clouded by sorrow and suffering-the loss of his two sons, and the decay of his mental faculties. He died near Devizes, England, Feb. 25, 1852.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
mor, Thomas (1779-1852), an Irish poet. He was born at Dublin and was educated at Trinity College. He studied law. Byron for England, Burns for Scotland, and Moore for Ireland may be associated conveniently in the student's mind. All were popular writers, all three were dissipated and unchaste in life; but similarity stops here. Byron was terribly in earnest in his bitterness; Burns was at heart reverent and true; Moore was a successful fashionable rake, lacking in depth and sincerity. He began to write verses when a boy. While at Dublin University he translated the Odes of Anacreon. His early volumes of poetry were criticized severely but were widely read. In the Edinburgh Review Moore was denounced as a "corruptor of morals." A duel between the editor, Jeffrey, and Moore was the result of this criticism. Byron made sport of the affair and it was said that the pistols were loaded with saltpeter. However that may be, neither of the participants was hurt and they became excellent friends thereafter. Lalla Rookh is a society rendering in verse of four gaudy eastern tales. It sold wonderfully and brought the author $15,000. The Fudge Family in Paris is written in a lighter vein. Moore wrote a number of prose works, among them biographies of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Lord Byron. His life of Byron is the best biography we have of that author, the two poets having been personal friends.
Moore JOHN BASSETT
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN BASSETT, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University and a distinguished publicist and writer on international law; born Dec. 3, 1860, at Smyrna, Del., he was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. He entered the State Department as a law clerk in 1885, and was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State in 1886. While he continued in the public service a great part of his time, he was after 1891 professor of international law at Columbia. In 1898 during the Spanish- American War he was for a time Acting Secretary of State, and was counsel to the American Peace Commission which drew up the treaty with Spain. From 1899 he has represented the United States on many important diplomatic enterprises. In 1913 he became counselor to the State Department, but resigned in 1914 to resume his work at Columbia. He has published a number of authoritative treatises on his subject, the largest being his "Digest of International Law" (8 vols., 1906).
Moore FORT power of the Moors was restricted to the kingdom of Granada
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FORT power of the Moors was restricted to the kingdom of Granada, and in 1238 the king of that territory became the vassal of Ferdinand III., King of Castile. At length, in 1491, Ferdinand V., King of Castile and Aragon, after a 10 years' war, conquered this also, and put an end to the dominion of the Moors in Spain, after it had lasted nearly 800 years. A portion of the Moors then returned to Africa; but most of them remained in Spain, where they became peaceful and industrious subjects, and adopted generally the external forms of Christianity. Philip II., however, in his hot zeal for Catholicism, resolved on *heir entire destruction, and by his oppressions and cruelties, drove them into insurrection, in Granada (1571), after the suppression of which, over 100,000 of them were banished.
Moore SIR JOHN, a British military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JOHN, a British military officer; born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 13, 1761. He served at Minorca, in the American War, as Brigadier - General in the West Indies ( 1795), in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, in Holland in 1799, and in Egypt in 1801, where he was severely wounded. Moore was now regarded as the greatest living British general. In 1808 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British army in Portugal to operate against Napoleon. He advanced to Salamanca, but was finally compelled to retreat to Corunna. The absence of the fleet to receive his army forced him to a battle against Marshal Soult, in which Moore fell, mortally wounded, in the hour of victory, Jan. 16, 1809.
Moore JOSEPH HAMPTON, mayor of Philadelphia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPH HAMPTON, mayor of Philadelphia; born in Woodbury, N. J., in 1864. After graduating from public schools he became a reporter and assistant editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger." In 1895 he entered politics and became Chief Clerk of the City Treasurer, and in 1901, City Treasurer. In 1905 he was elected to fill an unexpired term in the House of Representatives, and then from 1907 to 1919 successively re-elected as the candidate of the Republican party. In 1919 against the will of the leaders of the Republican party in Philadelphia he won the nomination for mayor of that city and took office in January, 1920.
Moore GEORGE, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an English author; born in 1853. Among his novels are: "A Modern Lover" (1883); "A Mummer's Wife" (6th ed. 1885); "A Drama in Muslin" (1886); "Confessions of a Young Man " ( 1888); " Esther Waters " ( 1894); etc. He wrote also in verse: " Flowers of Passion " ( 1877); " Pagan Poems " ( 1881); and the volumes of essays " Impressions and Opinions " ( 1891); " Modern Painting " ( 1893); " The Untilled Field " ( 1903); " Hail and Farewell " ( 1911- 1914); "The Brook Kerith" (1916).
Moore EDWARD CALDWELL, American theologian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD CALDWELL, American theologian; born in West Chester, Pa., 1857; studied in Germany. Ordained Presbyterian minister in 1884, serving in Yonkers, N. Y. (18 (1886-1889), and Providence, R. I. (1889-1901). Became Parkman professor of theology and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard in 1901. He has lectured in most of the big universities in this country and England, and is now President of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions.
Moore WILLIS LUTHER, American meteorologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIS LUTHER, American meteorologist; born in Scranton, Pa., 1856. Was printer during his youth, then entered Signal Corps, which later became the U. S. Weather Bureau, in 1876. Rose through hard study, becoming chief of Weather Bureau, 1895-1913. In 1914 became professor of applied meteorology of George Washington University. Has lectured extensively and contributed to scientific publications, and published "Descriptive Meteorology" (1901).
Moore GEORGE THOMAS, American botanist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE THOMAS, American botanist; born in Indianapolis, 1871; graduated from Harvard, 1895. Had charge of botany department at Dartmouth College, 1899-1891; physiologist and algologist in Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1903-1905, professor of plant physiology at Shaw School of Botany, Washington, D. C., 1909-1912. Has written many valuable contributions to scientific subjects related to botany.
Moore FORT, an ancient defensive work near Sand Bar Ferry on the Savannah river
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FORT, an ancient defensive work near Sand Bar Ferry on the Savannah river, Ga.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the Moores on this page, Thomas the poet has shrunk: Lalla Rookh, the tale that earned him the $15,000 Collier's marvels at in 1921, is now unread, while a handful of the Irish Melodies (The Last Rose of Summer, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms) survive as songs detached from their author, and his best-remembered act is one neither account mentions, his part in burning Byron's memoirs in 1824. John Bassett Moore, described in 1921 only as a Columbia professor who had gone back to teaching, was in that very year elected the first American judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, the high point of the career the entry catches in mid-course. Sir John Moore, killed at Corunna in January 1809 days after the passage here breaks off, is still credited with the light-infantry training methods he drilled at Shorncliffe, though Charles Wolfe's poem on his burial, once recited by every schoolchild, has left the classroom. The Fort Moore entry is in fact a stray fragment of the article on the Moors of Spain, and the name's most celebrated bearers today were all missed: the sculptor Henry Moore, then a young man, the poet Marianne Moore, and the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore.
Written for this edition, 2026.