The Elms

In 1851 this was the house where the Reverend James Hoare Christopher Moor lived, he was seventy one, being born in 1780 and a widower.

He was the son of a Rugby School master and became an assistant master there in his own right.in 1803. At the same time he became curate of Clifton. In 1828 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the post of Headmaster of Rugby School, a post filled by Dr. Thomas Arnold. In 1831 he became Vicar of Clifton and moved into the Elms. The old vicarage was too dilapidated and too small for his large household.

He was twice married. In 1815 he married Mary Sale a farmer's daughter from Clifton by whom he had eight children. Mary died in childbirth in 1836. A year later he married Mary Ann Cameron, a vicar's daughter from Lincolnshire, by whom he had six children. Mary Ann died in 1847.

The 1851 census shows that with him at the Elms were five of his children aged between 6 and 12 years, a cook, a housemaid, two nursemaids and a footman.

Reverend Moor was a significant authority in the village. He was a charismatic, furious high churchman who was a dominant force in the village, feared but respected by all.

He died still in post in 1853.