Moresby (surname)
Moresby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Archer Moresby (1867–?), New Zealand cricketer * Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862–1931), British novelist * Fairfax Moresby (1786–1877), British admiral * George Moresby-White ( 1933–1952), British playwright and screenwriter * John Moresby (1830–1922), British admiral * Robert Moresby Robert Moresby (15 June 1794 – 15 June 1854Some sources mention that he is thought to have died in 1863.) was a captain of the East India Company's Bombay Marine/Indian Navy who distinguished himself as a hydrographer, maritime surveyor a ...

Archer Moresby
Tracy Archer Moresby (1867 – 1933) was a New Zealand cricketer, born in England. He played four first-class matches for Auckland between 1889 and 1894. Life and career Moresby left England in his teens and went to New Zealand, where he worked as a clerk in the Deeds Office in Auckland. A middle-order batsman and excellent fieldsman, he was Auckland's highest scorer in their low-scoring match against Otago in December 1892, although he scored only 15 and 17. He was also prominent in Auckland as a rugby player and athlete. Moresby married Edith Halyday in New Zealand in 1893. When he toured with the Auckland team from late December 1893 to mid-January 1894, Edith and her father travelled with him. He and Edith had three children. They lived in Paeroa, where for some years he worked as a legal official: mining registrar and clerk of courts. He qualified as a solicitor in 1898 and set up a practice in Paeroa. Edith was granted a judicial separation in April 1921 on the groun ...
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Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
Lily Adams Beck, née Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862 in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland – 3 January 1931 in Kyoto, Japan) was a British writer of short-stories, novels, biographies and esoteric books, under the names of L. Adams Beck, E. Barrington and Louis Moresby, and sometimes other variations: Lily Adams Beck, Elizabeth Louisa Beck, Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby AdamsHistory For Sale
brief but seemingly good biography of Lily Adams Beck.

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Elizabeth Louisa "Lily" Moresby was born on 1862 in Queenstown, Cork, ,
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Fairfax Moresby
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fairfax Moresby GCB (29 November 1786 – 21 January 1877) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the unsuccessful expedition to capture Ferrol in Spain during the French Revolutionary Wars. He later saw action during the blockade of Brest during the Napoleonic Wars before becoming commanding officer of a sloop which was sent to the Aegean Sea to defend the population of Malta from pirates; the grateful people presented him with a sword. He then sailed to the Adriatic Sea where he led a naval brigade providing artillery support to the Austrian forces during the siege of Trieste. He went on to be senior naval officer at the Cape of Good Hope and then senior officer at Mauritius, with orders to suppress the slave trade: he concluded the Moresby Treaty with Seyyid Said, the imam of Muscat, restricting the scope of local slave trading and conferring on English warships the right of searching and seizing local vessels. Moresby later ...
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George Moresby-White
George Moresby-White was a British playwright and screenwriter. He is also known as G.H. Moresby-White. One of his plays was the basis for the 1955 comedy film '' No Smoking''.Halliwell p.829 Selected filmography * ''Britannia of Billingsgate'' (1933) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1933) * '' Midnight Menace'' (1937) * '' Take a Chance'' (1937) * ''The Heirloom Mystery ''The Heirloom Mystery'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Edward Rigby, Mary Glynne and Gus McNaughton. After being secretly commissioned by a man to create a replica piece of furniture so he can sell the valu ...'' (1937) References Bibliography * Halliwell, Leslie. ''Halliwell's Film Guide''. HarperPerennial, 1996. External links * British writers British male screenwriters {{UK-writer-stub ...
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John Moresby
Rear Admiral John Moresby (15 March 1830 – 12 July 1922) was a British naval officer who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port Moresby. Life and career Moresby was born in Allerford, Somerset, England, the son of Eliza Louisa and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fairfax Moresby. He joined the navy at an early age as a Volunteer 1st Class in HMS ''Victor'', and rose to be in charge of the 1,031 ton paddle steamer cruiser HMS ''Basilisk'' in which he made hydrological surveys around eastern New Guinea. During the survey of the southern coast he discovered the harbour which he named Fairfax after his father. The town established there, based on already existing native villages (principally Hanuabada) was named Port Moresby and is now the nation's capital. John Moresby was also searching for a shorter route between Australia and China and on the eastern tip of the island he discovered the China Strait. He continued exploring along the no ...
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