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{{Short description|British Surgeon}}

{{Infobox writer
| name = Sir William Moore
| image =
| caption = Portrait {{c.|}}
| birth_date = {{circa}} 1828
| birth_place = Halesowen, England
| death_date = 18 August 1896
| death_place = London, England
| occupation = {{hlist|Surgeon|Medical Writer}}
| signature =
| birth_name = William James Moore
| alma_mater = [[Queen's College, Birmingham]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Anne Harriet Moore||1896}}
| children = 1
}}
'''Sir William James Moore''' {{post-nominals|KCIE|country=GBR}} (1828-1896) was a [[Physician]] and [[Surgeon-General]] in [[British India]]. He was also [[Physician to the King|Honorary Physician]] to [[Queen Victoria]].

== Early life ==
He was the son of Edward Moore {{post-nominals|DL|country=GBR}} {{post-nominals|JP|country=GBR}} of [[Halesowen]].<ref name="Obituary">{{cite news |author= |date=19 September 1896 |title=The Late Surgeon-General Sir William James Moore KCIE |publisher=The Hospital|s2cid=43967099 }}</ref><ref name="Indian Dictionary of National Biography">{{cite web |title=Dictionary of Indian Biography |url=https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_Indian_Biography.djvu/314}}</ref><ref name="Edward Moore">{{cite web |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:374928/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002745%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |title = Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Moore, Edward (1804-1873)}}</ref> His grandfather was William Moore [[Esq.]] of Woodsetton House, Sedgley.<ref name="Edward Moore"/> His father was [[Justice of the Peace]] for [[Worcestershire]] from 1853, [[Staffordshire]] from 1862 and [[Deputy Lieutenant]] for [[Worcestershire]] from 1859.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="Edward Moore"/> He studied medicine at [[Queen's College, Birmingham]].<ref name="Obituary"/>

== Career ==

He was a resident surgeon at [[Queen's Hospital, Birmingham]] for three years until 1852, during which time he was awarded a prize from the [[British Medical Association]] for work he did on "the treatment of the contraction of the cicatrices of burns".<ref name="Obituary"/>

He entered the [[Bombay]] Medical Service in 1852 and served in the [[Anglo-Persian War]] from 1856-7.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="Indian Dictionary of National Biography"/>

In 1873 he was awarded 1000 [[Rupees]] by the Government of India for his work on ''A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India''.<ref name="A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India">{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/b28136044/page/n5/mode/2up |title = A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India| date=1893 }}</ref><ref name="Obituary"/>

He was appointed Deputy-Surgeon-General in 1877.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="Indian Dictionary of National Biography"/> In 1882 he was [[Dean of the Faculty]] of the [[University of Bombay]].<ref name="Obituary"/> He was appointed Surgeon-General in 1885 and retired in 1888.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="Indian Dictionary of National Biography"/>

He was knighted in 1888 and made Honorary Physician to the Queen.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="Indian Dictionary of National Biography"/><ref name="A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India"/>

== Personal life ==

He married Mary Anne Harriet and had one son, Colonel Arthur Trevelyan Moore {{post-nominals|CBE|country=GBR}}.<ref name="Obituary"/><ref>{{cite news |author= |date=2 March 1889 |title=Marriage: Moore and Kennedy |publisher= Kildare Observer|access-date=|quote=Feb 27, at Ballymore Eustace Church, by the Rev W H Morrison, M A, Rector of Killcullen, Arthur Trevelyan Moore Esq, RE, only son of Sir William Moore KCIE, to Constance Elizabeth, daughter of the late William Kennedy, Esq, of Anfield, Co Kildare.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mosley |first=Charles |date=2003 |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, Volume 2 |url= |location= |publisher=Burke's Peerage |page=2133 |isbn= |access-date=}}</ref>

He died on September 9, 1896 at his residence, 15 [[Portland Place]] in [[London]].<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="Indian Dictionary of National Biography"/>

He was presented upon retirement with a life-size portrait that was hung in the [[Asiatic Society of Mumbai Town Hall|Town Hall of Bombay]].<ref name="Obituary"/>

== Selected works ==
* ''A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India''<ref name="Obituary"/><ref name="A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India"/>
* ''The Immediate Treatment of Accidents and Injuries''<ref name="Obituary"/>
* ''A Manual of the Diseases of India''<ref name="Obituary"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/hw4aprth|title =A Manual of the Diseases of India}}</ref>
* ''Health in the Tropics, or, Sanitary Art Applied to Europeans in India''<ref name="Obituary"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/spj5fhb4|title =Health in the Tropics}}</ref>
* ''The Other Side of the Opium Question''<ref name="Obituary"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tbz43ppr|title =The Other Side of the Opium Question}}</ref>
* ''Health Resorts for Tropical Invalids''<ref name="Obituary"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/b88jjhr9|title =Health Resorts for Tropical Invalids}}</ref>
* ''Leprosy and Leper Houses''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wtket8xf|title =Leprosy and Leper Houses}}</ref>
* "On recruiting the Anglo-Indian Army"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moore |first=William |date=April 1891 |title=On Recruiting the Anglo-Indian Army |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=103–104 |issn=0019-5863 |pmc=5150320 |pmid=29000605}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=%22Moore,%20William%20James,%201828-1896.%22 Scanned works]

[[Category:1828 births]]
[[Category:1896 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century British medical doctors]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Mumbai]]
[[Category:Indian Medical Service officers]]
[[Category:Medical doctors from British India]]
[[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham]]

William James Moore - Revision history

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