Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet
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(22 November 1864 – 28 November 1944) was a Unionist member of the British House of Commons
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from Ireland
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and a Judge of Ireland, then of Northern Ireland
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. He was created a Baronet
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(of Moore Lodge, Ballymoney
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, County Antrim
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, Northern Ireland) in 1932.
Sir William was the eldest son of Queen Victoria's honourary physician in Ireland, Dr. William Moore of Rosnashane, Ballymoney. His family had come to Ulster during the Plantation, at which time they were Quakers, and settled at Ballymoney. (The Moore Lodge estate was to be inherited from a relative, as the family also owned Moore's Grove and Moore's Fort). In 1888 he married Helen Wilson, a daughter of a Deputy Lieutenant
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of County Armagh
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. He himself became a Deputy Lieutenant
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for County Antrim
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and a Justice of the Peace
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.
He was schooled at Marlborough College
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, then attended Trinity College, Dublin
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, where he was President of the prestigious University Philosophical Society
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. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1887 and to the English bar in 1899. He became an Irish Queen's Counsel
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the same year.
He was a Member of Parliament
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representing North Antrim
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1899-1906. During this period he was an unpaid secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland
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1903-1904.
In 1903 Sir William was one of the first landowners of Ireland to sell-off their estates under the land acts. By the early 1920s he owned a Belfast pied-à-terre called 'Glassnabreedon' (Moore's public school pronunciation of 'Glas-na-Braden') at the village of Whitehouse, 4 miles north of Belfast, once owned by the son of Nicholas Grimshaw (1747–1805), Ireland's first cotton pioneer.
He became a member of the General Synod
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of the Church of Ireland
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. He was a founder member of the Ulster Council.
Having lost his Parliamentary seat in the 1906 general election
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, Moore was elected for North Armagh
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at a by-election
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on 16 November 1906. He sat for this seat until he was appointed a judge in 1917.
He was a Justice of the Irish High Court 1917-1921. He was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland
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in the 1921 Birthday Honours, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". Following the partition of Ireland
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, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal
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in the Northern Irish Court of Appeal 1921-1925. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
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in 1922. He was the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
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1925-1937.