[2] It was against family precedent, but at last his father agreed that the boy should be bound apprentice to a draper at Wigton, Cumberland, and the self-reliance which would not allow him to remain a labourer in the country ultimately drove him to London, where he arrived in 1825.
Work of any kind was for a time sought in vain, and it was to the clannish goodwill of a Cumberland man that he at last owed a modest place with Flint, Ray, & Co., drapers.
In 1826, he entered the service of Fisher, Stroud, & Robinson, then deemed the first lace-house in the city, with whom he wore down prejudice by steady industry.
By his own capacity and toil Moore contributed much to its success, and in 1840, after suffering one refusal, he was able to marry Eliza Flint Ray.
[2] In the retirement occasioned by ill-health his religious opinions became pronounced, and on his return from America he plunged into philanthropy with the same zest that he gave to business.
[2] For the Royal Free Hospital, over the general committee of which Moore presided, he collected large sums of money.
When Paris was opened after the siege, in January 1871, he started at a few hours' notice to carry food and money from the Mansion House Committee.
On his way to speak at a meeting of the Nurses' Institution at Carlisle he was knocked down by a runaway horse, and died on the following day, 21 November 1876, in the inn where he had slept on his way to London in 1825.
[2] Moore's first wife, Eliza Flint Ray, died on 4 December 1858; on 28 Nov. 1861 he married Agnes, second daughter of Richard Breeks, who survived him.