Thomas Edward Laws Moore

Rear-Admiral Thomas Edward Laws Moore, FRS (9 February 1816 – 30 April 1872) was a Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He was Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1855 to 1862. Moore is known for commanding HMS Plover during the search for Franklin's lost expedition and for conducting magnetic surveys in the Antarctic. It is believed that he conducted the last Antarctic expedition under sail alone, and traversed more degrees of longitude south of 60° S than any previous explorer. and Cape Moore, Antarctica, the latter named by Sir James Clark Ross. Laws is spelled Lawes in some sources. Early life Moore was born to John Moore and Mary (née Mearns) in Brompton, Kent, on 9 February 1816. Not much is known about his family prior to his birth; however, both his father and paternal grandfather, Robert Moore, were shipwrights in the Chatham Dockyards. John and Mary also had three other children, Thomas being the youngest child, including Commander Robert Seppings Moore, RN.

He joined the Royal Navy in 1833 as a first-class volunteer and was mate of HMS Terror during the Ross expedition. thumb and in the Antarctic, by James Wilson Carmichael. National Maritime Museum, London.In 1844, the British admiralty commissioned the 360-ton barque Pagoda