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Up for sale the "Archbishop of Canterbury" John Moore Hand Written Letter Dated 1799.
18 January 1805) was Archbishop of Canterbury in
the Church of England. Moore
was the son of Thomas Moore, butcher, and his wife Elizabeth. He was born
in Gloucester and was
baptised in St.
Michael's Church, Gloucester, on 13 January 1729–30. He was educated
at The Crypt School,
Gloucester. He was a student at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated
1745; BA 1748; MA 1751).
Having taken holy orders, he was for some years tutor to sons of Charles
Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. On 21 September 1761, he was
preferred to the fifth prebendal stall in the church of Durham, and in April 1763, to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. On
1 July 1764, he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. On 19 September 1771, he was
made dean of Canterbury, and on
10 February 1775, bishop of Bangor.
On the death of Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis, he
was translated to the see of
Canterbury, 26 April 1783,[4] on the joint recommendation of Bishops Robert Lowth and Richard Hurd, both of whom
had declined the primacy. Though not a great ecclesiastic, Moore was an amiable
and worthy prelate, a competent administrator, and a promoter of the
Sunday-school movement and of missionary enterprise. He appears to have
dispensed his patronage with somewhat more than due regard to the interests of
his own family.
He died at Lambeth Palace on 18
January 1805, and was buried in Lambeth parish church.
