THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

DEVONSHIRE

DING 2015: ""Almost no certain information has been found for this author. He is frequently confused with other Thomas Moores. He may be a Rev. Thomas Moore who died in Islington in 1842. He was Minister of Kingswood Chapel, Birmingham, between 1795 and 1809. There is an Obituary for him in the Hereford Journal , 7th Sept. 1842: "Aug 23, the Rev Thomas Moore, formerly of Kingswood near Birmingham and late of Islington, Middlesex, aged 75; author of "A History of Devonshire" , an "Essay on Social Worship" etc." Apparently he was born in Dartmouth.

WORKS

1829. "A list of Some of the Provincialisms Prevalent Chiefly among the Common people of the County." The History of Devonshire from the Earliest Period to the Present. Vol I. London: R. Jennings: 506-510.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/2014-03

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Rev. Thomas Moore

(c. 1767-1842)