Francis Moore (barrister)

Sir Francis Moore (1558 – 20 November 1621) was a Jacobean era barrister and Member of Parliament.

He was born the posthumous son of Edward Moore, a yeoman of East Ilsley in Berkshire and educated at Reading School and St John's College, Oxford.

[1] He became an eminent barrister, working in the Middle Temple, but spent his family life at South Fawley Manor in Berkshire.

He began the famous sheep market at East Ilsley and was Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire in 1589 and then four times for local town of Reading (1597, 1601, 1604, 1614).

Sir Francis had several legal reference works published and died at South Fawley on 20 November 1621.