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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 (link to Moor Park). 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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▲[[File:CC4 Application.jpg|thumb|''<small>Dr Moor's application for position as Physician at Chester Royal Infirmary 31 December 1830</small>'']]
▲[[File:CC4 Application Transcription.jpg|thumb|''<small>Transcription of Dr Moor's application for position as Physician at Chester Royal Infirmary 31 December 1830</small>'']]
▲[[File:CC5 Acceptance.jpg|thumb|''<small>Dr Moor's acceptance of the position as Physician at Chester Royal Infirmary 27 January 1831</small>'']]
▲[[File:CC5 Acceptance Transcription.jpg|thumb|''<small>Transcription of Dr Moor's acceptance of the position as Physician at Chester Royal Infirmary 27 January 1831</small>'']]
Dr Moor became President of the Mechanics Institute in Chester, cataloguing and expanding its library. He sought to open a museum at the Water Tower, the Gentleman's Magazine reporting that he paid 13 guineas for a case of stuffed birds to go there. He contracted scarlet fever and died in 1837 aged 34.
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