Henry Moore, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Moore (born February 7, 1713 in Jamaica , † September 11, 1769 in New York ) was a British colonial official and governor of Jamaica (acting) and the province of New York .

Life

Henry Moore came from a family of planters with British roots known in Jamaica. He studied at Levden University since 1731. After military training in the local militia, he devoted himself to local politics in Jamaica. There he was initially deputy colonial governor. In 1756 and from 1759 to 1762 he held the office of acting governor. Among other things, he was involved in the suppression of a slave revolt and had to deal with internal opposition. In connection with the slave revolt, he imposed martial law on his colony. After the end of his tenure in 1762 he was ennobled with the title of Baronet .

In 1764, Moore was named the new British governor of New York Province. He held this office between 1765 and his death in 1769. The first unrest there had come in connection with the so-called Stamp Act . The governor initially acted soothingly on the colonists. Then he decided to suppress local uprisings by military means. However, there were no major uprisings and the colony was not yet in open rebellion against the British. This would not change until the years after Moore's tenure, when mounting tensions led to the American Revolutionary War . In October 1767, Governor Moore tried unsuccessfully to settle a border dispute with the colony of Massachusetts. He died surprisingly on September 11, 1769. Until the arrival of the new governor John Murray , the office was held provisionally by Cadwallader Colden , who held this post before Moore took office.

literature

• Charles Alexander Harris: Moore, Sir Henry (1713–1769) , in: Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 38. Elder Smith & Co., London 1894, pp. 354 f.

Web links

• Henry Moore, 1st Baronet in the database of Find a Grave (English)