Richard More

He was a younger son of John Moore (d.1509/10) of Moor Hayes in the parish of Cullompton in Devon, by his wife Elizabeth Clivedon (d.1515), a daughter and co-heiress of John Clivedon of Willand, Devon. A descendant of his elder brother Morris Moore (1459-1500) of Moor Hayes, was John Moore (1646–1714), Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Ely, grandson of Rev. John Moore (c.1595–1657) a clergyman of Puritan views and an author of pamphlets against enclosures, who was a younger son of Sir John Moore of Moor Hayes, knighted at the Palace of Westminster by King Edward VI in 1549, by his wife Katherine Pomeroy, a daughter of Sir Thomas Pomeroy (1503-1566), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, who in 1547 soldBerry Pomeroy Castle, Deer park and manor to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England from 1547 until 1549 during the minority of his nephew, King Edward VI (1547-1553), and eldest brother of Queen Jane Seymour (d.1537), the third wife of King Henry VIII.

He was appointed Archdeacon of Exeter on 13 January 1505 and as Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral on 24 May 1515. He died on 20 February 1515. His monument survives in Exeter Cathedral.