▶Date of birth:  1 February 1865        Place of birth:  Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan, Ireland

▶Father: George Bartley Moore      Mother:  Anna Brady

▶Spouse(s):  Emma Kate Mackenzie    Date(s) of marriage:   22 November 1906     Place(s) of marriage: All Saints’ Church, Cheltenham

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: John Walter Brady Moore served in several curacies, including at All Saints Church in Cheltenham, before obtaining his first rectory at Kimpton in Hampshire in 1912. He was born in Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan, the son of George Bartley Moore, a staff surgeon in the Royal Navy, and his wife Anna, second daughter of John Brady Esq., JP, of Johnstown House, Clones, Co. Monaghan; he often used the combined surname “Brady Moore”.

Moore trained for the priesthood at St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead in 1890. He was ordained Deacon in 1892, and Priest (both Llandaff) in 1894. In 1892 he was licensed Curate of St Fagan’s, Cardiff, where he remained until 1896, moving on in 1896 as Curate of Seaford in Sussex and then by the following year at Whitworth in Oxfordshire until 1899.

He was then licensed Curate at St Peter’s, Bedford in early 1900, where he stayed until 1902, before his appointment as Assistant Curate of Weaverham, Cheshire in 1903; here he was in charge of the new church at Sandiway, Northwich and was a keen village cricketer.

From there he transferred in 1906 to become Curate to All Saints’ Cheltenham; he lived at 3 Segrave Place (now 5 Pittville Lawn), near the Pittville Gates. He left Cheltenham in 1907 to become Rector of Syresham, Brackley in Northamptonshire, and later in the year married Emma Kate, elder daughter of Colonel Kenneth Mackenzie, of the Royal Irish Rifles, of Weston House (now numbered as 17 Pittville Lawn), Cheltenham, at All Saints’, Cheltenham; as a widow his mother-in-law later lived at Amberley House in Clarence Square, Pittville.

In 1912 he was appointed Rector of Kimpton in Hampshire, and remained Rector there until his retirement due to ill health in 1934; he was appointed Rural Dean of Andover 1925, serving in this capacity until 1932 and was installed as an Honorary Canon of Winchester in 1931. At Kimpton the popular Rector was largely responsible for rebuilding the village schools there; he also served as Honorary Chaplain to the Knights of the Round Table.

Moore lived at his death at 15 Salisbury Road, Andover, and died at Andover’s Memorial Hospital in 1938, at the age of seventy-three; after a funeral service at Kimpton he was cremated at Southampton. His estate at death was valued at over £8,375. (He should not be confused with his near-contemporary the Revd. John Walter Barnwell Moore RN and Royal Chaplain.)

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Northwich, Cheshire      Moved from Pittville to: Syresham, Northamptonshire

▶Date of death: 24 August 1938    Place of death: Memorial Hospital, Andover, Hampshire

▶Date of burial:  1938       Place of cremation: Southampton

▶Notes:        ID: 17394

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden