Thomas Edward Laws Moore
b. c. 1820 d. 1872
Naval officer and polar explorer. Took part in James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition, 1839–43; undertook the magnetic survey of the south Atlantic in 1845, and of Hudson’s Bay in 1846. Promoted commander of the Plover, 1848. Searched for Sir John Franklin and for the North-west Passage, 1848–52. Governor of the Falkland Islands, 1855–62. Rear-admiral, 1867. FRS 1854.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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