Henry Moore (1751–1844) was an

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minister and

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Life

Moore was born in a

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and

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to a

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. Impressed by the

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, he frequented the

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meetings and joined a class in Dublin in 1777. He served from 1784 to 1786 as assistant traveling companion and

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to Wesley, and again from 1788 to 1790. Wesley made him one of his literary executors and appointed him to be, after his death, one of the 12 ministers to regulate the services of

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. He was

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in 1804 and 1823. Moore rejected

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in the

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, although he accepted it from Wesley assisted by two Episcopal

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men; opposed Thomas Coke's Lichfield scheme of 1794 for the creation of a Methodist

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and also the proposal brought forward in 1834 for the establishment of a theological school; and on the formation of a centenary fund in 1839 objected to the acquisition of land by the Methodist body.

Works

In conjunction with Coke, and under the authority of the conference, Moore published a ''Life of the Rev. John Wesley'' in 1792. A new, more complete, ''Life'' was published in 1824-25. His ''Life'' was published by Mrs. Richard Smith, with autobiographical content, in 1844. Moore's other works are: * ''A Reply to Considerations in the Separation of the Methodists from the Established Church'' (1794) * ''Life and Death of Mrs. Ann Moore'' (1813) * ''Thoughts on the Eternal Sonship'' (1816) * ''The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher of Madeley'' (two volumes, 1817; ninth edition, 1838) * ''A Short Account of Mrs. Mary Titherington of

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'' (1819) * ''Sermons'' (1830), with

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