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John Moore (bishop of Ely)

The Right Reverend
John Moore
Bishop of Ely
John Moore, Bp Norwich & Ely by Godfrey Kneller.jpg
John Moore by Godfrey Kneller
Diocese Diocese of Ely
In office 1707–1714
Predecessor William Lloyd
Successor Charles Trimnell
Other posts Bishop of Norwich (1691–1707)
Personal details
Born 1646 (1646)
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
Died 31 July 1714(1714-07-31)
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Buried Ely Cathedral
Nationality British
Denomination Anglican
Spouse (1) Rose Butler
(2) Dorothy Barnes
Alma mater Clare Hall, Cambridge

John Moore (1646–1714) was Bishop of Norwich (1691–1707) and Bishop of Ely (1707–1714) and was a famous bibliophile whose vast collection of books forms the surviving "Royal Library" within Cambridge University Library.

Bishop John Moore was descended from the ancient family of De La Moor (later Moore), of Moore Hayes in the parish of Cullompton in Devonshire, England. He was born in Market Harborough in Leicestershire, the son of Thomas Moore (1621–1686), an ironmonger of Market Harborough, by his wife Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Edward Wright of Sutton in the parish of Broughton, Leicestershire. The Bishop's paternal grandfather was Rev. John Moore (c.1595–1657) a clergyman of Puritan views and an author of pamphlets against enclosures, who was a younger son of Sir John Moore of Moor Hayes, knighted at the Palace of Westminster by King Edward VI in 1549, by his wife Katherine Pomeroy, a daughter of Sir Thomas Pomeroy (1503-1566),feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, who in 1547 sold Berry Pomeroy Castle, Deer park and manor to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England from 1547 until 1549 during the minority of his nephew, King Edward VI (1547-1553), and eldest brother of Queen Jane Seymour (d.1537), the third wife of King Henry VIII.


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