| Honorific Prefix: | Admiral |
| Sir Arthur Moore | |
| Birth Date: | 30 July 1847 |
| Birth Place: | Frittenden, Kent, England |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | Royal Navy |
| Rank: | Admiral |
| Commands: | HMS Invincible HMS Orion HMS Dreadnought HMS Britannia Cape of Good Hope Station China Station Portsmouth Command |
| Battles: | Second Boer War |
| Awards: | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, (30 July 1847 – 3 April 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who became both Commander-in-Chief, China and Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
Moore was born in 1847 in Frittenden, Kent, the son of the Rev. Edward Moore, rector of the parish, by his marriage to Lady Harriet Montagu-Scott (1814–1870), a daughter of the fourth Duke of Buccleuch. His father was an Honorary Canon of Canterbury, and his great-grandfather was John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Moore joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1860, at the age of thirteen.[1] [2]
In 1881 he was given command of the battleship HMS Invincible in the Mediterranean Fleet and in 1882 he commanded the corvette HMS Orion in the Anglo-Egyptian War.[2] He was present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir.[2] In 1884 he was appointed Flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.[2]
He later took command of the battleship HMS Dreadnought in the Mediterranean Fleet before becoming Commandant of HMS Britannia at Dartmouth.[2]
In 1889 Moore was sent as a British representative to the Anti-Slavery Congress held in Brussels. In 1890-1891 he was a member of the Australian Defence Committee.[1]
He was made Junior Naval Lord at the Admiralty in 1898, and Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in early 1901,[2] leaving the UK for Cape in March 1901 on board his flagship HMS Gibraltar.[3] In this capacity he took part in the closing phases of the Second Boer War.[2] Following the end of the war in June 1902, he toured the East Coast of Africa, visiting Zanzibar with seven Royal Navy ships for a show of force following the death of the sultan and the accession of his son in July 1902,[4] and Kenya in August.[5]
In 1905 he became Second in Command in the Channel Fleet and in 1906 he was made Commander-in-Chief, China.[6] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth from 1911; he retired in 1912.[2]
When he died in 1934, Moore was buried with other members of his family at St Mary's Church, Frittenden, near the west end of the church.
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