Edward Moore, rector of the parish, by his marriage to Lady Harriet Montagu-Scott (1814–1870), a daughter of the fourth Duke of Buccleuch.

[1] Moore joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1860, at the age of thirteen.

[3] In 1889 Moore was sent as a British representative to the Anti-Slavery Congress held in Brussels.

[2] He was made Junior Naval Lord at the Admiralty in 1898, and Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in early 1901,[3] leaving the UK for Cape in March 1901 on board his flagship HMS Gibraltar.

[3] Following the end of the war in June 1902, he toured the East Coast of Africa, visiting Zanzibar with seven Royal Navy ships for a show of force following the death of the sultan and the accession of his son in July 1902,[5] and Kenya in August.