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== 1831 Coronation - Celebrations in Flookersbrook<ref>''<small>Article researched and written by Ralph Earlam, February 2022, Hoole History & Heritage Society</small>''</ref> ==

[[File:CC1 Bonfire.jpg|left|thumb|''_{Painting of a bonfire lit for the 1831 coronation}'']]

However Dr Moor was the son of Maria Moor who inherited the land on the South side of Hoole Road on which the terraces of Moor Park were built in the 1850s (see ''''The Shell Garage site – Moor House and Moor Park'''<nowiki/>' article on [[Hoole Road|'''Hoole Road''']] page). His full name was Henry Trowbridge Moor, and his father was a naval officer who served under Sir Thomas Trowbridge and was lost at sea in the Indian Ocean when the "Blenheim" sank in 1807. Henry had been born in 1803, went to Rugby School and St John's College, Cambridge where he studied medicine. He was appointed Physician at the Chester Infirmary in 1831, having made a very public application and acceptance.

 

 

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