Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet

For other people named Thomas Moore, see Thomas Moore (disambiguation).

Moore in 1928

Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, 1st Baronet CBE (16 September 1886 – 9 April 1971) was a long-serving Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr Burghs in a 1925 by-election, and served until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by George Younger. Moore was created a Baronet, of Kyleburn in the County of Ayr, in 1956.[1] He died in April 1971, aged 84, when the baronetcy became extinct. In the mid-1930s Moore, a Colonel in the British Army, wrote widely in the UK press in support of Adolf Hitler and the policies of Nazism.[2]

  1. ^ "No. 34408". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1937. p. 3855.
  2. ^ David Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford, London: Star Books, 1978, p. 118