Maurice George Moore (1854-1939) was the second child of George Henry and Mary Moore. In 1889 he married Evelyn Handcock (1862-1946), an Anglo-Irish Protestant woman from Carantrilla Park, Tuam, County Galway. They had two children.
Lt.-Colonel Maurice Moore, Connaught Rangers, R.H.A., 1903 by Walter Osborne (Library Ireland)
Maurice was educated at Oscott College, Birmingham and then the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; he went on to a distinguished military and political career.
Unsigned, undated photograph (1906–1912) of Maurice Moore in British Army uniform, wearing rank insignia of Colonel and Boer War campaign ribbons. From Maurice Moore, An Irish Gentleman, 1913 (Wikimedia Commons)
His portrait by Walter Osborne (private collection, present whereabouts unknown) was painted around the time that his brother George moved from London to Dublin, partly inspired by Maurice’s nationalism and progressive activism.
In 1913 Maurice published a biography of George Henry Moore including an argumentative Preface by his older brother. Ten years later, partly as a consequence of Maurice’s public service, terrorists burned Moore Hall (George’s property).
Above, an oil portrait by Sarah Cecilia Harrison in the National Gallery of Ireland is captioned Colonel Maurice Moore, Senator, 1930.
Below, three years later Maurice and his last surviving sibling Nina Moore Kilkelly attended George’s funeral at Lough Carra in the Moore Hall demesne.
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