John Edmund Sharrock Moore

John Edmund Sharrock Moore ARCS (10 May 1870 – 15 January 1947) was an English biologist, best known for being co-publisher of the term meiosis and leading two expeditions to Tanganyika.

Personal life Born at Swinshaw near Loveclough, Rossendale, Lancashire, he was the son of Henry (1821–1907) and Mary Elizabeth Moore (née Margerison, 1832–1878). Henry's father, John (1794–1869) was a cotton manufacturer and the first Mayor of Burnley (elected 1862). Following the Cotton Famine Spencer and Moore went bankrupt in 1872. Henry Moore became a colliery agent, moving the family to Southampton and later to Chiswick (before 1891). His father became a sculptor, as did his sister Esther Mary Moore who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Moore studied at Tonbridge School, Kent for a year

Moore retired in 1908 after the death of his father. In 1911 he was living with his wife and son in Chiswick along with four of his sisters. During the 1920s he moved to Tresco, Isles of Scilly where his wife died on 4 November 1927. He lived there at least between 1929 and 1941. After a long retirement he died of heart failure and arteriosclerosis in West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance on 15 January 1947. His scientific interests lay in the new and rapidly developing field of cytology. Between 1892 and 1905 he worked in the Huxley Laboratory at the Royal College of Science on several projects within this field. He was supervised and generally mentored by George Bond Howes. He frequently worked alone, but collaborated with Farmer on meiosis and with both Farmer and Charles Edward Walker on cancer cytology.