George Henry Moore | |
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| Born | 1 March 1810 County Mayo, Ireland |
| Died | 19 April 1870 (aged 60) Moore Hall, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Resting place | Kiltoom, Moore Hall, County Mayo. |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | Politician, landowner, tenant-right activist |
| Office | Member of Parliament for County Mayo, 1847-1857, 1868-1870 |
| Movement | Catholic Defence Association, Tenant Right League |
| Children | George Augustus Maurice George Nina Henry Julian Augustus |
| Parent(s) | George Moore and Louisa Browne |
| Relatives | John Moore (uncle) |
George Henry Moore (1 March 1810 – 19 April 1870) was an Irish politician who, in the 1850s, was a co-founder of the Tenant Right League, of the Catholic Defence Association and, as the Member for Mayo in the United Kingdom Parliament, of the Independent Irish Party. Although an advocate of tenant rights, and renowned for his relief efforts during the Great Famine, at the time of his death in 1870 Moore was defending his rights as a landowner against an oath-bound tenant society, the Ribbonmen. He was the father of the novelist George Augustus Moore and of the Fianna Fáil Senator Maurice George Moore.