Edward Moore (Archdeacon of Oakham)


Edward Marsham Moore was a British Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Oakham in the Church of England from 1906 to 1918.
Moore was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon and ordained in 1867. He was curate of then Vicar of Ashborne after which he was Rector of Benefield and, finally, the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham.
He was the son of Edward Moore, formerly Rector of Frittenden, Kent, and of Rt Hon Lady Harriet Jane Sarah Montagu-Scott, daughter of Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch. He was the elder brother of Admiral Sir Arthur Moore and great-grandson of John Moore
Moore married Lucy Watts-Russell and there were three children: Aubrey Edward Duncombe Moore, Captain RN; Constance Evelyn Harriet Moore ; and Noel Arthur Moore, British Army Captain. He died suddenly in 1921 in Maidstone of heart failure.