Sir Thomas Moore

Can any of your readers give any account of Sir Thomas Moore, beyond what Victor tells of him in his *History* of the Theatre, ii. p. 144., "that he was the author of an absurd tragedy called *Mangora* (played in 1717), and was knighted by George I." In Pope's "Epistle to Arbuthnot," he writes— "Arthur, whose giddy son leglects the laws." on which Warburton notes— "*Arthur Moore, Esq.*" Who was *Arthur Moore, Esq.*? and who was the "giddy son?" Was the latter *James Moore Smith* a gentleman whose family name was, I think, *Moore*, and who assumed (perhaps for a fortune) the additional name of…