Arthur Moore (Tralee MP)

Moore was recommended for it as "a very respectable lawyer and MP":[2] despite his opposition to the Union, he was generally seen as a reliable Government man, even supporting measures which were widely unpopular.

[2] In the summer of 1839, some six months after his retirement from the Bench, being, as he put it, "73 or 74 years old" he gave evidence to a Select Committee of the House of Lords on the state of crime in Ireland.

His opinion, which the Lords treated with obvious respect, was that there was a good deal of crime in the country, but he believed that in recent years there had been a general improvement in the overall situation.

[2] They had at least four children, including the Reverend John Tydd Moore, Vicar of Erke (Eirke), County Kilkenny, Frances Margaretta, who married John Balfour Magenis, younger son of Richard Magenis, and Elizabeth, who married William Persse of County Galway and Rathgar, Dublin, a cousin of the celebrated writer Lady Gregory.

His death seems to have been unexpected, and the inquest brought in a verdict of "temporary insanity" (thus permitting him a Christian burial, which was otherwise denied to suicides).

[8] By his wife, Charlotte Bocķett, daughter of John and Rebecca Bockett of Southcote Lodge, Reading, Berkshire, he had a numerous family.