Arthur Moore

Rt. Hon. Arthur Moore (1765 – 6 January 1846) was an Irish lawyer, judge, and politician.

Moore was the second son of Lewis Moore II and his wife and cousin Margaret Moore, of Prospect House, Durrow, County Laois. He was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, at Trinity College Dublin, and the Middle Temple. He was called to the bar in Ireland in 1788, and became a King's Counsel in 1798.

Career

In 1798 he was elected to the House of Commons of Ireland for the borough of Tralee. An opponent of the Act of Union, he was one of the members co-opted to sit in the 1st Parliament of the United Kingdom, for the reconstituted seat of Tralee. He was slow to take his seat in Westminster, but did so by June 1801, and was a fairly frequent contributor to the debates in that session. He did not seek re-election in 1802.

In 1814–15, as First Serjeant, he was much occupied in putting down agrarian disturbances in the South of Ireland. From July 1816 to February 1839, he served as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. The appointment was well received: he was a good lawyer, if not of the first rank, and was extremely popular. He was sworn a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1839.

John Tydd Moore committed suicide in January 1865 by cutting his throat. His death seems to have been unexpected, and the inquest brought in a verdict of "temporary insanity" (thus permitting him a Christian burial, which was otherwise denied to suicides). By his wife, Charlotte Bocķett, daughter of John and Rebecca Bockett of Southcote Lodge, Reading, Berkshire, he had a numerous family. Their eldest son, the younger Arthur, followed him into the Church and became Dean of Achonry. Arthur died in 1882.