[1][2] He was born at Leominster, Herefordshire and died at Sherborne, Dorset.
Moore was educated at St George's School, Harpenden (the forerunner to the current school of that name) and at St John's College, Cambridge.
[3] Academically gifted, he took a first-class degree in Part I of the Cambridge University Classical Tripos, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1895.
[3] His single game of first-class cricket came after he had technically left the university: he appeared as a middle-order batsman in the match against Yorkshire in 1896 and scored 61 runs in his only innings.
[4] The report of the match in The Times bracketed Moore's name in terms of success with those of three other Cambridge batsmen, Cuthbert Burnup, Frank Druce and Gilbert Jessop, all of whom went on to play Test cricket.