George Moore (1811–1871) was a landowner who became the
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
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and built
Appleby Hall
Appleby Hall was a manor house or stately home built in the small hamlet of Appleby Parva, on the outskirts of Appleby Magna.
A Manor was mentioned in the Domesday Book and there have been several houses on the site until the final building, a Cl ...
in
Leicestershire
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Biography
Moore was born in 1811 at his mother Susan's ancestral home of Snarestone Hall. Susan's maiden name was Drummond and she had married Moores father who was also called George (1778–1827) the year before.Appleby Magna , local site, accessed 22 September 2008 His father and Susan had another daughter Susan Drummond but his mother died in 1813. His father then married Elizabeth Hurt of
Alderwasley
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but there were no other children.
Moore became Lord of the Appleby Parva Manor on 23 June 1827 when his father died and he set out on a large campaign of building. Between 1832 and 1836 the existing Appleby House was extended with a new classical wing. The new extension was so large that the building was renamed. So in 1837 when George became
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift t ...
he was recorded as of
Appleby Hall
Appleby Hall was a manor house or stately home built in the small hamlet of Appleby Parva, on the outskirts of Appleby Magna.
A Manor was mentioned in the Domesday Book and there have been several houses on the site until the final building, a Cl ...
.
Susan Drummond Moore, married
Edward Holden
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of
Aston-on-Trent
Aston-on-Trent is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The parish had a population of 1,682 at the 2011 Census. It is adjacent to Weston-on-Trent and near Chellaston, very close to th ...