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Arthur Moore (Grimsby MP)

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contract. On 10 June a committee was appointed by the directors of the South Sea Company to investigate charges made against Moore; in July 1714 he was censured by the Company, in relation to a clandestine trade to the prejudice of the corporation; and he was declared incapable of further employment
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he was defeated at Grimsby and petitioned, but withdrew his claim next month. He had a house in Grimsby, and was high steward of the borough from 1714 to 1730.
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The articles of the treaties with France and Spain (1712) which related to commerce were mainly drawn up by Moore. He was responsible for
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M.P. (c. 1666 – 4 May 1730), of Fetcham Park, Surrey, was an Irish businessman, economist and Tory politician who sat in the
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During the last years of Queen Anne he showed great skill in parliament, and was deemed highly capable. His brother
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Moore's name appeared in 1702 among the managers of the "united trade to the East Indies". He was a director of the
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in Kent. He married at Westminster Abbey, on 4 November 1696, his second wife, Theophila Smythe of
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Moore married at St. Bride's, London, on 17 March 1691-2, Susanna, eldest daughter of
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in their quarrels, but threw in his lot with the latter. In later years he supported
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was made paymaster of the land forces abroad in August 1713. Moore mediated between
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In 1714 it was alleged that Moore, with others, was an interested party in the
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clauses, eventually cancelled. They brought him hostility from Whigs in the
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Monckton, Robert (c.1659–1722), of Cavill Hall and Hodroyd, Yorks
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Moore studied trade questions, made money rapidly, and at the
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Great Grimsby
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Moore, William (1699–1746), of Polesden Lacey, Surr.
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Moore, Arthur (c.1666–1730), of Fetcham Park, Surr.
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English
British House of Commons
Monaghan
1695 English general election
Member of Parliament
Great Grimsby
Lincolnshire
1722 British general election
South Sea Company
George, Prince of Denmark
Thomas Moore
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Robert Walpole
free trade
City of London
Robert Monckton
Assiento

Fetcham Park House
Fetcham Park House
Leatherhead
Great Bookham
Talman
Louis Laguerre
Thomas Carter
Edward Browne
Northfleet
Epsom
Inner Temple

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