Born in Porirua near Wellington, New Zealand on 19 May 1867, Moore was Secretary of the Meat Trade Workers' Federation that was destroyed in the 1890 strike.
Frank T. Moore threatened the Prime Minister in 1902 during a political dispute and as such as sentenced by a judge to 3 years exile from New Zealand.
Frank Moore was a man of intellectual ability and a reputable academic scholar and as such authored over 50 published works.
The list of works are as follows Book - Essays on burning political questions : state banking and paper money, Moore, Frank Thomas.
; c1900 Labour's Path to Political Independence: the Origins and Establishment of the NZLP 1900-19 by Barry Gustafson (1980, Oxford University Press, Auckland)