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The Rt Rev William Richard Moore ( 1858–1930 ) was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1915 to 1930.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1882 and his first post a curacy at Temple Michael. After this he was Vicar of Donnybrook and Kiltoghert. He was Archdeacon of Ardagh from 1896 until his elevation to the episcopate as the 9th bishop of the United Diocese. He was additionally Dean of Ardagh from 1920.

Notes

1. The Times, Monday, February 24, 1930; pg. 12; Issue 45445; col C Death of the Bishop of Kilmore
2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
4. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. pp. 856/7.
5. Moody, Theodore William, A New History of Ireland, p. 406
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p1816 London: Oxford University Press, 1929

External links

• "Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh, Bishop of" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 126  – via Wikisource.

• 1858 births
• Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
• 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland
• Bishops of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
• 1930 deaths