Moore, John (1761–1809)
Scottish-born British general. In 1808 he commanded the British army sent to Portugal in the Peninsular War. After advancing into Spain he had to retreat to Coruña in the northwest, and was killed in the battle fought to cover the embarkation. He was made KB in 1804.
He entered the army in 1776, serving in the American and French Revolutionary Wars and against the Irish rebellion of 1798.
Moore, John (1729–1802)
| Scottish novelist. Thomas Carlyle made use of Moore's Journal of a Residence in France 1793, while Byron modelled his Childe Harold on Zeluco, a selfish libertine, whose name appears as the title of Moore's most popular novel 1789. |
| He was born in Stirling, attended Glasgow University and became a doctor. He was attached to the British army in Flanders 1747–48, was for a time surgeon to the English ambassador at Versailles, and served for five years 1772–77 on the Continent as tutor to the young Duke of Hamilton. |
