Thomas Edward Laws Moore (b. c. 1820 d. 1872)

Naval officer and polar explorer. Took part in James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition, 1839–43; undertook the magnetic survey of the south Atlantic in 1845, and of Hudson’s Bay in 1846. Promoted commander of the Plover, 1848. Searched for Sir John Franklin and for the North-west Passage, 1848–52. Governor of the Falkland Islands, 1855–62. Rear-admiral, 1867. FRS 1854.