John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable John Moore
Archbishop of Canterbury
Church	Church of England
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Canterbury
Elected	26 April 1783 (confirmation of election)
Term ended	18 January 1805 (death)
Predecessor	Frederick Cornwallis
Successor	Charles Manners-Sutton
Other posts	Dean of Canterbury (1771–1775) Bishop of Bangor (1774–1783)
Personal details
Born	(1730-04-26)26 April 1730 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Died	18 January 1805(1805-01-18) (aged 74) Lambeth, Surrey, England
Buried	St Mary-at-Lambeth
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford

John Moore (26 April 1730 – 18 January 1805) was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.

Moore was the son of Thomas Moore, butcher, and his wife Elizabeth. He was born in Gloucester and was baptised in St. Michael's Church, Gloucester, on 13 January 1729-30. He was educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester. He was a student at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated 1745; BA 1748; MA 1751).

Having taken holy orders, he was for some years tutor to Lords Charles and Robert Spencer, younger sons of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. On 21 September 1761, he was preferred to the fifth prebendal stall in the church of Durham, and in April 1763, to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. On 1 July 1764, he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. On 19 September 1771, he was made dean of Canterbury, and on 10 February 1775, bishop of Bangor.

On the death of Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis, he was translated to the see of Canterbury, 26 April 1783, on the joint recommendation of Bishops Robert Lowth and Richard Hurd, both of whom had declined the primacy. Though not a great ecclesiastic, Moore was an amiable and worthy prelate, a competent administrator, and a promoter of the Sunday-school movement and of missionary enterprise. He appears to have dispensed his patronage with somewhat more than due regard to the interests of his own family.