Edward Moore (scholar)

Edward Moore, FBA (1835–1916) was an English scholar who specialized in Dante Alighieri.

He was educated at Bromsgrove Grammar School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received recognition.

He was elected Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford in 1858, subsequently working as tutor there, and was ordained deacon in 1859, then priest in 1861.

[1] In 1864 he was nominated by the college to become the Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Edward Moore (1870–1944), who was Anglican Bishop of Travancore and Cochin 1925–37, was his eldest son.