Edward Moor

Who was Edward Moor?

Edward Moor was a British soldier and Indologist, known for his book The Hindu Pantheon, an early treatment in English of Hinduism as a religion.

He was a soldier for the East India Company, joining in 1782 as a cadet. He became a brevet-captain in 1796, having been wounded in 1791 at Dooridroog, a hill fort near Bangalore, and Gadjnoor.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1806.

He married Elizabeth Lynn on 10 July 1794. She died on 13 December 1835 and was buried in the churchyard at Great Bealings on 19 December 1835.

He retired to Bealings House, Great Bealings, Suffolk in 1806. His son, Canon Edward James Moor was Rector of Great Bealings from 1844 to 1886. While Major Moor lived in Great Bealings he experienced what he believed was a ghostly ringing of the servants' bells in the house, and published his experience in the book "Bealings Bells", published in 1841.

He died in at the house of his son-in-law, William Page Wood, in Westminster on 26 February 1848 and was buried in the churchyard at Great Bealings on 4 March 1848.