Allegiance United Kingdom Died April 3, 1934 Battles/wars Second Boer War Battles and wars Second Boer War | Name Arthur Moore Service/branch Royal Navy Role Royal Navy officer Rank Admiral | |
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Commands held HMS Invincible
HMS Orion
HMS Dreadnought
HMS Britannia
Cape of Good Hope Station
China Station
Portsmouth Command Awards Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order, Order of St Michael and St George | ||
Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, (30 July 1847 – 3 April 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to command the China Station and to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
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Early life
Moore was born in 1847 in Frittenden, Kent, the son of the Rev. Edward Moore, rector of the parish, by his marriage to Lady Harriet Montagu-Scott (1814–1870), a daughter of the fourth Duke of Buccleuch. His father was an Honorary Canon of Canterbury, and his great grandfather was John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Military career
Moore joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1860, at the age of thirteen.
In 1881 he was given command of the battleship HMS Invincible in the Mediterranean Fleet and in 1882 he commanded the corvette HMS Orion in the Anglo-Egyptian War. He was present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir. In 1884 he was appointed Flag Captain to the Commander in Chief of the East Indies Station.
He later took command of the battleship HMS Dreadnought in the Mediterranean Fleet before becoming Commandant of HMS Britannia at Dartmouth.
In 1889 Moore was sent as a British representative to the Anti-Slavery Congress held in Brussels. In 1890-1891 he was a member of the Australian Defence Committee.
He was made Junior Naval Lord at the Admiralty in 1898, and Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in early 1901, leaving the UK for Cape in March 1901 on board his flagship HMS Gibraltar. In this capacity he took part in the closing phases of the Second Boer War. Following the end of the war in June 1902, he toured the East Coast of Africa, visiting Zanzibar with seven Royal Navy ships for a show of force following the death of the sultan and the accession of his son in July 1902, and Kenya in August.
In 1905 he became Second in Command in the Channel Fleet and in 1906 he was made Commander-in-Chief of the China Station. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth from 1911; he retired in 1912.
When he died in 1934, Moore was buried with other members of his family at St Mary's Church, Frittenden, near the west end of the church.