Charles Moore

Charles Moore (English Charles Moore, May 10, 1820 - April 30, 1905) - British and Australian botanist. For 48 years (1848-1896) served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. Charles Moore was born May 10, 1820 in the Scottish city of Dundee, in the family of Charles Muir and his wife Helen, nee Rattray. He studied in his hometown. 1838, his older brother David became the director of the Glasnevinsky Botanical Garden in Dublin and the family decided to move to Ireland, while the surname was changed from Muir (Eng. Muir) to Moore (Eng. Moore). Charles continued his education in Dublin, later began to work as a nerd in the mapping service of Ireland. Moore has been trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and Regent's Park. On the recommendation of professors John Lindley and John Stevens Genslow, he was appointed government botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. Charles Moore arrived in Sydney on January 14, 1848. His arrival provoked a wave of indignation in the colony, as his appointment to the post of head of the Botanical Garden actually removed John Criminal Bidville, who had been appointed director of the colony administration a year earlier. Still, the director was Moore, who was instructed to restore the scientific nature of the botanical garden without violating its value for recreation. Moore began to actively collect new plants for the botanical garden, including through exchange with other botanical gardens. In 1850, he brought plants from the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia.