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MOORE, Richard Temple

Richard Temple Moore was born on the 22nd of November 1891 in Hampstead, London to Temple Lushington Moore and Emma Storrs Wilton, the third of their four children and the only son. Temple Moore was an architect, known especially for his work on churches. He was born in Ireland where his English father was an army Major, but brought up in Glasgow. The ‘Temple’ and ‘Lushington’ names came from his Irish mother’s family.

Richard Temple Moore first attended Heath Mount School in Hampstead before going to Sherborne School in Dorset. There he was a Private in the Officers’ Training Corps as well as playing rugby. He then attended Christ’s College in Cambridge and was subsequently articled to his father. It was intended that he would continue the architecture practice.

He enlisted at Hampstead in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, though it is not known when. In October 1918 he was a Private in the 2/1st, a Training and Reserve unit, which had moved to Ireland in early 1918 and were in the Dublin area. Presumably returning home on leave, he travelled on RMS Leinster on the 10th of October. He did not survive the sinking but his body was recovered and he was buried in Grangegorman Military Cemetery in Dublin. His name is recorded on the Sherborne School Roll of Honour and on his father’s gravestone in St John’s Church, Hampstead.