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Moore, George (Augustus)
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Date: 20000101
Author:ROBERT WELCH
Moore, George [Augustus]
(1852–1933), novelist. Born at Moore Hall, Ballyglass, Co. Mayo, he was the eldest son of George Henry Moore (d. 1870), Nationalist MP, Catholic landowner, racehorse trainer, and one-time friend of Maria Edgeworth . Moore went briefly to Oscott College, a minor Catholic public school near Birmingham. Left unsupervised and largely in the company of stable-boys at Moore Hall, he nurtured the ambition of becoming a jockey. Spared a military career by his father's death, and heir to 12,000 acres, Moore left for Paris in 1873, determined to be a painter. ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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