The second son of Edward Moore (qv), of Halesowen, Worcestershire; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and then acted as Resident Medical Officer or House Surgeon at Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, in the Rowley District of the Dudley Union; at the Birmingham Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary; the Br

Tommy 'Tucker' Moore was welcomed in a great many surgical clubs and societies for his engagingly forthright interventions. His criticisms were pungent but invariably good-humoured, and he was very good company. He was born on 11 January 1909 in Sunderland, where his father and mother ran a newspape