Arthur Moore (Tralee MP)

Rt. Hon. Arthur Moore (1765 – 6 January 1846)[1] was an Irish lawyer, judge, and politician.

For other people named Arthur Moore, see Arthur Moore (disambiguation).

Moore was the second son of Lewis and Margaret Moore of Prospect, Queen's County. He was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Middle Temple. He was called to the bar in Ireland in 1788, and became a Kings Counsel in 1798.[2]

In 1798 he was elected to the House of Commons of Ireland for the borough of Tralee.[3] An opponent of the Act of Union, he was one the members co-opted to sit in the 1st Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was slow to take his seat in westminster, but did so by June 1801. He did not seek re-election in 1802.[2]

From July 1816 to February 1839, he served as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. He died at his seat, Lamberton Park, Maryborough, County Laois, in 1846.[4]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
  2. Aspinall, Arthur (1986). R. Thorne (ed.). "MOORE, Arthur (?1764-1846), of Lamberton Park, Maryborough, Queen's Co". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  3. Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
  4. "Obituary". The Gentleman's Magazine. Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]. 179: 669. June 1846.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Maurice FitzGerald
James Crosbie		 Member of Parliament for Tralee
1798–1800
With: Henry Kemmis		 Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Parliament of Ireland		 Member of Parliament for Tralee
1801–1802		 Succeeded by
George Canning


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