Richard Moon

Sir Richard Moon, 1st Baronet (1814–1899) was a railway engineer. He became chairman in June 1861 of the London and North Western Railway until he retired on 22 February 1891.[1]

Born in Liverpool, the elder son[2] of merchant Richard Moon (1783-1842) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Bradley Frodsham, of Liverpool,[3][4][5] Moon became a member of the board of the London and North Western Railway in 1847, the company having just come into existence as the result of the amalgamation of several lines. First becoming a director, he was appointed chairman in June 1861.

Sir Richard also founded the Snowdon Mountain Railway in Wales, in association with George Assheton-Smith, which opened in 1896.[6]

He lived in Bevere, a small hamlet on the banks of the River Severn, in Claines parish, Worcestershire, from 1849 to 1863.[7] At the parish vestry meeting on 24 April 1851 he was elected as Vicar's Churchwarden.[8] After moving to Copsewood Grange, east of Coventry, he invested in Joseph Cash's attempts to manufacture artificial silk.[9]

Moon married Eleanor (1820-1891), daughter of John Brocklebank, of Hazelholm, Whitehaven, Cumberland, a former officer of the West Cumberland Volunteers, in 1840; they had three sons and two daughters.[10][11][12]

Moon was created a baronet, of Copsewood Grange, in the parish Stoke, in the County of Warwick, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 22 July 1887.[13] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Cecil Ernest Moon (son of Sir Richard's eldest son, Edward, who died in 1893). He is buried at St. Bartholomew's Church, Coventry.

References
  1. Reed, Michael. "Moon, Sir Richard, first baronet (1814–1899)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45712. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45712.
  3. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2755
  4. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1965, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townend, p. 87, 'Brocklebank formerly of Childwall Hall' pedigree
  5. The Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 9, ed. Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1901, p. 141-142, Brocklebank pedigree
  6. NRM, Pictorial Collection. "Image of Sir Richard Moon". Science & Society Picture Library. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  7. Braine, Peter The Railway Moon pmb publishing, Taunton 2010 p32-36
  8. Braine, Peter The Railway Moon pmb publishing, Taunton 2010 p36
  9. Walters, Peter The Story of Coventry, The History Press, Stroud p. 199
  10. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2755
  11. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1965, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townend, p. 87, 'Brocklebank formerly of Childwall Hall' pedigree
  12. The Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 9, ed. Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1901, p. 141-142, Brocklebank pedigree
  13. "No. 25728". The London Gazette. 9 August 1887. p. 4313.

Sources
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Copsewood Grange)
1887–1899		 Succeeded by
Cecil Moon


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