Ralph Westwood Moore

Ralph Westwood Moore (1906 – 10 January 1953) was an English classicist and writer who became the headmaster of Harrow School in 1942.

Life Ralph Moore was born in Wolverhampton in the late summer of 1906, the elder son of George Moore.

He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and then, as a scholar, Christ Church, Oxford where he achieved academic distinction. Prose at Present: A Selection of Extracts from Modern Writers, London: George Bell & Sons, 1933. The Threshold: An Anthology of Verse and Prose Contributed from the Public and Secondary Schools of England: 1935, London: Selwyn & Bloint, 1935. The Romans in Britain: A Selection of Latin Texts, Edited with a Commentary, London: Methuen, c. 1938. Vergil's Aeneid: Book III, London: George Bell & Sons, 1938 (The Alpha Classics). Education: To-day and To-morrow, London: Michael Joseph, 1945.

Personal Ralph Moore married Elsie Barbara Tonks (1901–1969) at Wolverhampton in the early summer of 1931. The marriage resulted in the births of two recorded sons in 1933 and 1935.