Henry Monck-Mason Moore: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|03|26|1887|03|18|df=y}}

| death_place = [[Cape Town]], South Africa

| spouse = {{marriage|Daphne Ione Viola|December 1921}}

| children = 2

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'''Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=small|GCMG|KStJ}} (18 March 1887<ref>"Biographical Notes" in ''Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume VII, August 1945 – October 1950'', Jean van der Poel, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2007) p423</ref> – 26 March 1964)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B9W6t3SfRgUC&dq=Henry+Monck-Mason+Moore+1887&pg=PA423 Profile of Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore]</ref> was a British governor of [[British Sierra Leone]], [[Kenya Colony|Kenya]] and [[British Ceylon|Ceylon]].

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From 1940 to 1944, he was [[Governor of Kenya]] and then from 1944 to 1948 he was [[Governor of Ceylon]]. After the independence of [[Dominion of Ceylon|Ceylon]] in 1948, he served as Governor-General until 1950.

He married Daphne Ione Viola, daughter of William John Benson in December 1921. The couple had two daughters.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Ofcansky |first=Thomas Paul |title=Moore, Sir Henry Monck-Mason (1887–1964), colonial governor |id=38475}}</ref> He was the brother of the psychoanalyst [[Sylvia Payne]].

==Awards and honours==