were the outcome of the Barlow lectureship. In 1889 appeared his monumental Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the ‘Divina Commedia’. This work, which at once placed Moore in the front rank of living Dante scholars, was the first serious attempt to deal scientifically and methodically with the complicated problems presented by the text of the Commedia, and it is still the chief authority on the subject. In response to a proposal from the Clarendon Press for a single-volume edition of the works of Dante, Moore brought out in 1894 the well-known Oxford Dante, now in its fourth edition (1924), which has been accepted as the standard of reference throughout the world. This was followed in 1896–1903 by three series of Studies in Dante. A fourth series was on the eve of publication at the time of Moore's death, which took place at Chagford 2 September 1916. Especially noteworthy among the essays contained in these four volumes are those on Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante, accompanied by elaborate tables, in the first volume; the closely reasoned article on the Quæstio de Aqua et Terra, which finally established the authenticity of the treatise, and the masterly vindication of the letter to Can Grande, in the second and third; and the lengthy series of studies on the textual criticism of the Convivio, which constitute the pièces justificatives of the emended text as printed in the Oxford Dante, in the posthumously published fourth volume.
Moore's intimate acquaintance with the whole range of Dante's writings, his attainments in the many fields covered by his subject, his acute yet cautious critical judgement, his sound scholarship, and indefatigable industry, gained him a European reputation, which was recognized by his election, among other distinctions, as a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca in 1906, and as a fellow of the British Academy in the same year. Moore was twice married: first, in 1868 to Katharine Edith (died 1873), daughter of John Stogdon, solicitor, of Exeter; secondly, in 1878 to Annie (died 1906), daughter of Admiral John Francis Campbell Mackenzie. He had one son and two daughters by each marriage. There is a portrait of Moore at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
[The Times, 5 September 1916; memoir by E. Armstrong in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1915–1916; preface (by the writer) to the fourth series of Studies in Dante; personal knowledge.]
MOORE, TEMPLE LUSHINGTON (1856–1920), architect, the eldest son of Major-General George Frederick Moore, by his wife, Charlotte, youngest daughter of John Lushington Reilly, of Scarvagh House, co. Down, was born 7 June 1856 at Tullamore, King's county, where his father was then quartered. He received his early education at the high school, Glasgow, to which city his father had been brought by a staff appointment. In 1872 the boy, whose health was delicate, was sent as a pupil to the Rev. Richard Wilton, curate (afterwards rector) of Londesborough, Yorkshire. Three years later he was articled to the architect, George Gilbert Scott, junior, son of Sir George Gilbert Scott. In 1878 he set up as an architect himself at Hampstead, but soon moved to a London office in Old Queen's Street, Queen Anne's Gate.
Although never in formal partnership, Temple Moore and his master, George Gilbert Scott, remained for the next twelve years in close professional association. There is actually some doubt as to the share of each in the authorship of the designs of works entrusted to Scott from this time; but it is known that owing to Scott's failing health Moore had to assume increasing responsibility. The designs themselves supply no internal evidence on this point, since the sympathy between the two men was so complete that, even after Scott's withdrawal from his profession (about 1890), Moore, who became his acknowledged successor, seems to have hesitated before innovating or imposing his own idiosyncrasies upon the practice founded by Scott. Gradually, however, it became apparent that Moore's artistic destiny was not to preserve an attenuating tradition but to bring to maturity a development which otherwise would have remained incomplete.
Throughout his career Moore found constant employment, although the list of buildings designed by him is not as long as that of many a less conscientious architect. The following are the more important new churches which he designed: Peterborough, All Saints (1885–1903); Barnsley, Yorkshire, St. Peter (1892–1911); Hull, St. Augustine (1892); West Hendon, Middlesex, St. John (1896); Mansfield, St. Mark (1897); Sledmere, Yorkshire (1897–1898); Middlesbrough, St. Cuthbert (1901) and St. Columba (1905); Bradford, St. Wilfrid, Lidget Green (1904); Harrogate, St. Wilfrid (1905–1913); Eltham, St. Luke, Well Hall (1907); Leeds, St. Margaret (1907–1909); Royton, Lancashire, St. Anne
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