Sir Harold & Lady Moore

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:59 pm

When Winifred, Lady Moore, died in 1974 or 75 (accounts vary), her death was reported in The Blue. There was no indication of how she was connected with CH. She was simply described as 'wife of Sir Harold Moore'. Evidently the Editor thought his readers were well aware of who Sir Harold was and what his role in the Foundation had been. Yet when Sir Harold himself died in 1976 at the age of ninety-nine-and-a-half, The Blue ignored it completely.

I was already a Grecian, and more interested in the ramifications of CH than many; but I didn't know where the Moores fitted in, and I still don't.

Sir Harold's entry in Who Was Who doesn't shed much light. No details of his education are given. CH isn't mentioned anywhere. There's nothing about his working life either, except that he was a Fellow of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants and Arbitrators. He was however an Alderman, Senior Sheriff and Lieutenant of the City of London and a big wheel in Freemasonry, so he wouldn't have suffered from culture shock at a meeting of the Council of Almoners.

Was he an Almoner, I wonder? Were he and/or his wife Governors? Was either of them an Old Blue? It would be interesting to know.

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:51 pm

Probably a complete red herring but I "googled" "Sir Harold and Winifred Moore Christ's Hospital" and it came up with this:

Roll of Honour - Sussex - LittlehamptonSon of Harry and Flora Ann Moore, of 24, Gloucester Place, Littlehampton, Sussex. ... Included on Christs Hospital War Memorial Buried in Vermelles British ...
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/Littlehampton.html - 219k - Cached - Similar pages

Tragically they lost two sons according to the website, which lists Littlehampton rather than CH, so I don't know for sure whether any Moores appear on the CH War Memorial.

Maybe Sir Harold was a relative?

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:04 am

Andrew, thanks for that. I think it probably is a red herring though, as the only reference to CH I can find on that page concerns Geoffrey Woodhams (CH 1900s) and there's no hint that he was connected to the Moore family. Still, you never know. There should be at least one Moore listed on the CH WW1 memorial: Lt-Col Robert Frank Moore (Maine B, left 1905) whose obituary was reprinted in The Blue for Summer Term 2004.