Thomas Moore (British Army officer, died 1735)

Colonel Thomas Moore ( 1669–1735) was an officer of the British Army who served as Paymaster of the Forces Abroad.

Biography Moore was the younger brother of Arthur Moore, an Irishman of obscure origin who became successful in the City of London.Paula Watson and Perry Gauci, MOORE, Arthur (c.1666-1730), of Bloomsbury Square, Mdx., and Fetcham Park, Surr. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715 (2002). On 10 August 1693 he was commissioned as ensign of Sir Charles Hara's company of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards.Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, vol. iii (1896) p. 306. He was further promoted to lieutenant (with the rank of captain) on 1 August 1695,Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. iv (1898) p. 66 and to captain in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards (with the rank of lieutenant-colonel) on 25 January 1702.Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. iv, p. 269. On 29 March 1708 he succeeded Thomas Allen as colonel of a regiment of Foot. His regiment was disbanded in 1713,Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. vi (1904) p. 153. and on 4 September that year he was granted the post of Paymaster of the Forces Abroad. The grant was revoked on 3 October 1714,J. C. Sainty, Paymaster of Forces 1661-1836. Accessed 9 December 2018. following the death of Queen Anne. In 1729 Moore purchased the manor of Polesden from his elder brother Arthur.'Parishes: Great Bookham', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H. E. Malden (London, 1911), pp. 326-335. British History Online. Accessed 9 December 2018. He died unmarried in 1735, aged 66, and was buried in a vault of St Nicolas' Church, Great Bookham, on 25 March. His heir was his nephew William.Monument in St Nicolas Church, Great Bookham, quoted in E. W. Brayley, A Topographical History of Surrey, vol. iv (1841) p. 477.

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