Count Arthur John Moore KHS (15 September 1849 – 5 January 1904)[1][2] was a wealthy Roman Catholic Irish nationalist politician.
In Parliament he strongly advocated land reform, better treatment of children in workhouses, university education for Irish Catholics, and Home Rule.
[3] He returned to the House of Commons briefly as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, after winning a by-election on 16 February 1899 for the Londonderry City, but held the seat only until the general election the following year.
[5] Moore financed the building of Ferryhouse Industrial School for Catholic boys near Clonmel.
He financed the foundation, donating the land and buildings for Mount St Joseph Abbey at Roscrea, where he is buried.