Arthur William Moore
Arthur William Moore | |
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 Arthur William Moore | |
| Born | February 6, 1853 Braddan, Isle of Man |
| Died | November 12, 1909 (aged 56) Douglas, Isle of Man |
| Burial place | Kirk Braddan |
| Nationality | Manx |
| Occupation(s) | Antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and politician. |
| Organisation(s) | Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh |
Arthur William Moore,
MA (6 February 1853[1] – 12 November 1909[2]) was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man
. He published under the sobriquet A. W. Moore.
Life
Arthur William Moore was born in Cronkborne,
MHK and a descendant of Illiam Dhone. He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] Thereafter he assisted his father in the management of the sailcloth manufactory, and on his father's death in the eighties, he succeeded to the business. He was also a great sportsman, being a blue whilst at Cambridge,[4]
an active rower, and a founding member of Cronkbourne Cricket Club. He also bore the entire cost of the forming and furnishing of this club and of laying the ground.
On 22 February 1887 he married Louisa Elizabeth Wynn Hughes-Games (1866-1937). They had four children: Helena (b. 1888), Margery (b. 1889), William (b. 1890, d. 1891 aged 3 months) and Arthur (b. 1895).[5]
Moore died on 12 November 1909 and was buried at Kirk Braddan.[2] After his death his widow married George Frederick Clucas (1870-1937).
Political career
In 1881 there was a general election of the
Herbert Gladstone
to urge the reform.
Manx literature
Having learned as a young man the
neo-Manx language movement. He in 1893 edited for the Manx Society for the Publication of National Documents
The Book of Common Prayer in Manx Gaelic, the earliest and longest manuscript in the language.
Arthur Moore was also particularly interested in literature dealing with the
Justice of the Peace in 1877 and was for many years the Captain of the Parish of Onchan before resigning in 1895. Mr Moore was also a Mason and became the Junior Grand Deacon of the Province of the Isle of Man
.
Moore managed to settle the kerfuffle between
Oxford over the reading of runic
inscriptions on Manx crosses, the correspondence of which appeared in Moore's own periodical "The Manx Note Book".
At his death, he left unfinished a dictionary of the Anglo-Manx dialect, which was completed in 1924 by Manx scholars Sophia Morrison and Edmund Goodwin, as A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect.
List of works
This is an incomplete list of works:
- The Surnames and Place Names of the Isle of Man (1890)
- Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man (1891)
- Manx Carols (1891)
- The Diocese of Sodor and Man (1893)
- "Further Notes on Manx Folk-Lore" in The Antiquary (1895)
- Manx Ballads and Music (1896)
- History of the Isle of Man (1900)
- The Story of the Isle of Man (1901)
- Manx Worthies (1901)
- Bishop Hildesley's Letters (1904)
- Douglas 100 Years Ago (1904)
- Extracts from the Records of the Isle of Man (1905).
- A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect (1924, posthumous)
References
- ^ "Brief Biography of A.W. Moore 1853-1909". A Manx Notebook. Archived from the original on 27 June 2001. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Memorial Notices: Arthur William Moore". A Manx Notebook. 1909. Archived from the original on 31 August 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ "Moore, Arthur William (MR872AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Morrison, Sophia (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Fyson, R. (2009). The Anglo-Manxman: a life of A W Moore. Douglas.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "ILN 30 Aug 1902 - King's Visit to IoM".
- ^ "No. 27482". The London Gazette. 14 October 1902. p. 6493.
- ^ "Manx Notebook". isleofman.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021.
External links
- Moore, Arthur William (1885), The Manx Note Book, vol. I, Douglas
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - —— (1891), The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man, Douglas: Brown & Son
- —— (1893), Sodor and Man, London: S.P.C.K
- —— (1895), "Further Notes on Manx Folklore", The Antiquary, vol. XXXI, London: Elliot Stock, pp. 5–9, 72–76, 106–109
- —— (1896), Manx ballads & music, Douglas: G. &R. Johnson
- —— (1900), History of the Isle of Man, vol. I, London: T. Fisher Unwin
- —— (1900), History of the Isle of Man, vol. II, London: T. Fisher Unwin
- —— (1901), Manx Worthies
- —— (1901), The Story of the Isle of Man, London: T. Fisher Unwin – illustrated
- —— (1906), Manx Names, or The Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man (Revised Cheap ed.), London: Elliot Stock
- —— (1904), The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Ltd., 1830 – 1904, Manchester: R. Johnson & Sons Ltd.
- —— (July 1906), "The Connexion between Scotland and Man", The Scottish Historical Review, vol. III, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, pp. 393–409
- —— (1913), Nessy Heywood, Douglas, Isle of Man: Brown & Sons Ltd.
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