Life
1702-1734; [given name James Moore]; b. Surrey, son of Arthur Moore, a
Lords Commissioner of Trade under Queen Anne, and a Miss Smyth; ed. Worcester
College, Oxford; songs and poems; allusion to his huge size in The
Dunciad; paymaster to the gentlemen pensioners; d. 18 Oct. The
Rival Modes, com. (1727), 8o. PI