MOORE, HENnv (175]-1844). A Wesleyan minister and biographer of John Wesley. Ile was born in a suburb of Dublin, and was apprenticed to a wood-carver. Impressed by the preaching of John Wesley. lie frequented the Methodist meet ings and joined a class in Dublin in 1777. He began to preach, gave up the wood-carver's art, and started a classical school. lie received an appointment from Wesley to the Londonderry circuit in 1779. He was subsequently called to London. served from 1784 to 1786 as assistant traveling companion and amanuensis to John Wesley, and again from 1788 to 1790. Wesley made him one of his three literary exeentors, and appointed him to be. after his death, one of the twelve ministers to regulate the services of City Road Chapel. He was president of the Wes leyan Conference in 1804 and 1:823. Moore clang to the methods of Wesley. lie refused ordination in the Church of England. although he accepted it from Wesley assisted by two Episcopal clergy men; opposed Coke's Lichfield scheme of 1794 for the creation of tt Methodist hierarchy, and also the proposal brought forward in 1834 for the es tablishment of a theological school: and on the formation of a centenary fund in 1839 objected to the acquisition of land by the Methodist body.
In conjunetion with the 1Zev. 'Thomas Coke. and under the authority of the Conference, he pub lished a Lifc of r Pct'. John fleshy in 1792; which, however. owing to a difference with the third literary executor, they had been obliged to Prepare without access to Wesley's papers. Most of the papers were afterwards obtained, and a new Life was published in 1824-23. Moore's other works are A L'en/p to Considerations on the Separation of the Methodists from the Estab lished Church (1794); Thoughts on the Ekenal .unship ; The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher of Madeley (2 vols., 1817) ; .1 Nhorf Account of Miss Mary Titherinyton of Liverpool (1819) ; sermons ( 18301. with autobiography to 1791. His life was published by Sirs. 'Richard Smith, with the autobiography. in 1844.