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{{Short description|British colonial administrator (1887–1964)}}

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|birth_date = 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>

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

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|death_place = Cape Town▼

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| term_start3 = 9 January 1940

| term_end3 = 25 October 1944

| monarch3 = George VI

| predecessor3 = [[Walter Harragin]]

| successor3 = [[Philip Mitchell (colonial administrator)|Philip Mitchell]]

| order4 = <!-- 20th [[Governor of Kenya]] -->

| term_start4 = 27 September 1930

| term_end4 = 13 February 1931

| monarch4 = [[George V]]

| predecessor4 = [[Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham|The Lord Altrincham]]

| successor4 = [[Joseph Byrne (British Army officer)|Joseph Byrne]]

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| office5 = [[Governor of Sierra Leone]]

| term_start5 = 17 July 1934

| term_end5 = 21 May 1937

| monarch5 = George V

| predecessor5 = [[Arnold Hodson]]

| successor5 = [[Douglas James Jardine]]

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|03|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = London, England

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

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

| children = 2

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'''Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore''' {{postnominalspost-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&pg=PA423&dq=Henry+Monck-Mason+Moore+1887&hlpg=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi39MKc3p_XAhUBHxoKHZkjB4YQ6AEIKTAB#v=onepage&q=Henry%20Monck-Mason%20Moore%201887&f=falsePA423 Profile of Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore]</ref> was a British Governorgovernor of [[British Sierra Leone]], [[Kenya Colony|Kenya]] and [[British Ceylon|Ceylon]].

==Biography==

The son of Rev. Edward William Moore, he was educated at [[Rokeby Preparatory School|Rokeby]], [[King's College School|KCS]], Wimbledon and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1909.

In [[World War I]], he was a lieutenant in the [[Royal Garrison Artillery]] based in [[Salonika]] from 1916 to 1919.

He served as [[Governor of Sierra Leone]] from 1934 to 1937. As governor of Sierra Leone he undertook surveys of infrastructure. He undertook a campaign that began by successfully "repairing every road and bridge in the [[Port Loko District|area around Port Loko]]." It was considered one of the most ambitious and successful such efforts in colonial Africa during the era of the Great Depression. Adding to this, he then began a similar campaign in the [[Pujehun District|Pejehun area]], [[Bonthe District|Bonthe and the surrounding area]] as well as [[Bo District|Bo and the surrounding villages]]. This succeeded in providing employment for large numbers of native workers, as well as increasing commercial infrastructure for later development. However, when the area surrounding [[Magburaka]] asked for the same improvements, Governor Moore was unable to get the funds from the colonial office. This led to some sections alleging that the coastal areas were being "favoured" by the British government. Governor Moore found this dynamic "most distressing." While it was true that the funds simply had run out, and that Moore's efforts were genuinely made in good faith, the perception of favoritism became one which Moore had to consciously combat from then on.<ref>Hall, Henry Usher. The Sherbro of Sierra Leone: A Preliminary Report on the Work of the University Museum's Expedition to West Africa, 1937. United States: University Press, University of Pennsylvania, 1938.</ref> [[Albert Margai]] later wrote that he remembered Moore "fondly," and that "he had a reputation for being sincerely compassionate towards us."<ref>Sierra Leone in Maps, foreword by Sir Albert Margai by John Innes Clarke</ref> Milton Margai said Moore was "unhypocritical" and was "never patronising," adding "Moore did not have the sort of superiority complex or condescension that some others from Europe have had." Milton Margai said later, "Monk-Mason Moore was one of the men who gave the British Empire a good name in the eyes of many Africans. It is unfortunate there were not more like him."<ref>Sir Milton Margai. United Kingdom: n.p., 1961.</ref> [[Siaka Stevens]] said Moore "was a good man." And that "he (Moore) genuinely meant well, and in most cases he did measurably good things."<ref>Kpundeh, Sahr John. Elites, Non-elites and Corruption: An Attitudinal Analysis of Data from Sierra Leone. United States: Howard University, 1993.</ref> In 1937 Moore joined the Colonial Department in [[London]] as Assistant Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1939 and [[Deputy Under Secretary of State]] from 1939 to 1940.

After serving as [[Governor of Sierra Leone]] from 1934 to 1937, he joined the Colonial Department in [[London]] as Assistant Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1939 and [[Deputy Under Secretary of State]] from 1939 to 1940.

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==

* Awarded a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in [[Cambridge University]], 1909

* Companion of [[Order of Saint Michael and Saint George|The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George]] (CMG), 1931

* Knight Commander of [[Order of Saint Michael and Saint George|The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George]] ({{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}), 1935

* Knight Grand Cross of [[Order of Saint Michael and Saint George|The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George]] ([[GCMG]]), 1943

* Knights of Justice ([[KStJ]]) of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John]]

==References==

*Hankinson, C. F. J. (ed.) ''Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1954'', Odhams Press, 1954

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