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WIIJ~IA~I 100RE, I~.D. Univ. Dubl., F.R.C.P.I, J.P. ; P H Y S I C I A N - I N - 0 R D I N A R Y TO H I S ~ I A J E S T Y T H E K I N G I N I R E L . k N D ;

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OBIIT XV ANTE KALENDAS MAIAS, A.D. 3{CMI., ANNO xETATIS SU2E LXXIV.

AFTEU a long period of failing health tiffs eminent and highly-esteemed physician died peacefully on Wednesday, April 17, at his town residence, 67 Fitzwilliam-square, North, Dublin, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

Born on November 13, 1827, at Rosnashane, Ballymoney, County Antrim, WILLIAM MOOI~E came of a good old stock, who migrated to Ireland from Cumberland in the reign of James the First. The family originally belonged to the Society of Friends, but joined the Communion of the Church of Ireland towards the close of the eighteenth century. I-Ie was the eldest son of Alexander Moore, of Rosnashane, by his wife, Mary, daughter of the Reverend ]3. Mitchell.

Young MOO~E was educated by the Rev. Stephen Gwynn, Rector of Port Stewart, Co. Antrim, and in due time be- came an undergraduate of Trinity College, Dublin. t i e graduated in Arts in the University of Dublin at the Spring Commencements in 1848, and in Medicine in 1850, pro- ceeding to the higher degree of Doctor Mediein~e at the Winter Co.mmeneements of 1860. On July 6, 1850, he obtained the "Let te rs Testimonial" of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 1~55 he became a Licentiate in Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, being elected a Fellow on October 31, 1859.

On the death of his father, WILLIAM MOOSE succeeded to the family estates, and became head of a house which has played a prominent part in the history of the County of Antrim for successive generations.

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money, having died, that residence passed into the posses- sion of DR. WILLIAM ~IooRE, and there in after-years he spent many happy days, whenever temporarily free from the cares of an anxious profession.

Shortly after he obtained his qualifications, DR. MOORE WaS appointed Dispensary Medical Officer to his native town of Ballymoney. But his active mind sought for a wider field and a larger sphere of duty and of usefulness, and so he came up to Dublin. In the capital at that time he may be said to have had little or no influence--hence his subsequent success redounds all the more to his credit. In a sense, he was a self-made man.

Not long after his arrival in Dublin DR. MOOI~E was appointed, in 1856, Lecturer on Materia 5Iediea in the Dublin School of Anatomy, 5Iedieine and Surgery. This School was, however, closed in 1857. But the talented and rising young physician was not long left without pro- fessional preferment. In 1861 he was appointed to the Chair of Medicine in the Ledwich, formerly the Original, School of ~ledieine, Peter-street, Dublin. Here he con- tinued to lecture, session after session, until 1869, when he succeeded Dr. (now Sir John) Banks, as King's Pro- fessor of Practice of Medicine in the School of Physic in Ireland. He served as Clinical Physician to Mercer's Hospital until his appointment to the School of Physic, when he became Clinical Physician to Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital by virtue of his King's Professorship.

DR. IVIOOI~E filled the highest offices in the College of Physicians. He acted as Registrar of the College for some time. From 1861 to 1863 and again from 1866 to 1868 he was one of the Censors, filling the office of Vice-President throughout the latter period. On St. Luke's Day, 1882, he was chosen President of the College, occupying the chair for two successive years with credit to himself and advantage to the College. His honourable record and eminent professional standing were in due time recognised by the Sovereign, for on the death of Dr. Benjamin George M'Dowel in September, 1885, he was appointed in sue- cession to that able man as Physician-in-Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen in Ireland, and on January 25th, 1887,

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he succeeded Dr. Robert D. Lyons as Crown Nominee for Ireland on the General Medical Council.

Among the important professional posts which Dm MOORE was called upon to fill through the goodwill of his brethren was that of President of the Pathological ~ociety of Dublin. He was also Consulting Physician to the National Children's Hospital, Harcourt-street, Dublin, with which the Pitt-street Hospital for Diseases of Children was amalgamated several years ago. D~. MOORE had previously been for a long time Physician to the Pitt- street Hospital, where he won a high reputation as an authority on diseases of children.

His writings were numerous and of great merit, To the T, ra~zsactio~zs of the Medical Society of the College of Physicians he contributed from time to time papers on " Infantile Mortality " (1859), " Typhus and Typhoid Fever" (1871), "Epidemic Scarlatina" (1875), " Strumous Peritonitis," " Idiopathic Tetanus," &e. In our own pages he wrote on "Aneurism and Dementia" (1868), " The Treatment of Cerebro-Spinal Complications in Continued Fever," " Acute l~heumatism and Rheumatic Pericarditis." A contribution on " Paralysis and Atrophy from Lead Poisoning " appeared in the Medical Press in 1861, a series of " Clinical Lectures" in that Journal for 1862, and to the Irish Itost)ital Gazette he contributed papers on " Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels " in 1874 and 1875.

Dm MOOSE was a Justice of the Peace for the Co. Antrim, and served as High Sheriff for his native county, as many of his ancestors had done before him. He was a kind, sympathetic, and indulgent landlord, and was justly esteemed by his tenantry.

In private life he was beloved and revered. He had married in 1863 Sidney Blanche, daughter of Captain Abraham Fuller, of Woodfield, King's County, and by her he had six sons. Of these the eldest, Mr. William Moore, K.C., M.P. for North Antrim, has already won for himself a high reputation at the Bar and in Parliament. Another of his sons is Dr. George Abraham Moore, Captain lt.A.M.C. His youngest son was killed while witnessing the felling of a

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tree at Moore Lodge in January, 1894. This was the great sorrow of DR. MOORE'S life, and from it he in some sense never rallied. Slight hemiplegie attacks occurred on more than one occasion, symptoms of paralysis agitans developed gradually, and after several years of impaired health his strength finally gave way, and he entered into rest after a few days of more acute illness with symptoms which pointed to cerebral congestion.

A courteous and courtly gentleman, a loving husband and an affectionate father, an able and sympathetic physician, WILLIAM MOOI~E by his life and conduct upheld the best traditions of his family and profession. Of him it may truly be said that he never made an enemy or lost a friend.

J. W. M.