T. C. Kingsmill Moore

{{Short description|Irish judge, politician and author (1893–1979)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

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| office = Judge of the Supreme Court

| term_start = 14 March 1951

| term_end = 6 December 1966

| nominator = Government of Ireland

| appointer = Seán T. O'Kelly

| office1 = Judge of the High Court

| term_start1 = 7 June 1947

| term_end1 = 14 March 1951

| nominator1 = Government of Ireland

| appointer1 = Seán T. O'Kelly

| office2 = Senator

| term_start2 = 8 September 1943

| term_end2 = 7 June 1947

| constituency2 = Dublin University

| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|3|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|1|21|1893|3|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Dublin, Ireland

| nationality = Irish

| party = Independent

| spouse = {{marriage|Beatrice McNie|1926}}

| children = 2

| education = Marlborough College

| alma_mater = {{Ubl|Trinity College Dublin|King's Inns}}

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Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill Moore (16 March 1893 – 21 January 1979) was an Irish judge, politician, author and barrister who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1951 to 1966, a Judge of the High Court from 1947 to 1951 and a Senator for the Dublin University from 1943 to 1947.

Kingsmill Moore was born in Dublin in 1893 to Canon Henry Kingsmill Moore, Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education,{{Cite web|url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Dundrum/Roebuck__Part_of_/1315889/|title=National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911|website=www.census.nationalarchives.ie|access-date=2016-07-06|archive-date=2019-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328142123/http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Dundrum/Roebuck__Part_of_/1315889|url-status=live}} and Constance Turpin.{{Cite web|url=https://farhi.org/wc204/wc204_458.html|title=Rev. Henry Kingsmill Moore & Constance Turpin|website=farhi.org|access-date=2021-05-16|archive-date=2021-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923183255/https://farhi.org/wc204/wc204_458.html|url-status=live}} He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and Trinity College Dublin. While he was Auditor of the College Historical Society, W. B. Yeats spoke at the inaugural meeting of his session. Moore served in the Royal Flying Corps from 1917 to 1918, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1918, to the Inner Bar in 1934, and became a bencher of King's Inns in 1941.{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/moore-theodore-conyngham-kingsmill-a5946|title=Moore, Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|last=Hogan|first=Gerard|access-date=7 February 2022}}

He was also an author of highly regarded books on fly fishing,{{cite web|url=http://www.fishandfly.co.uk/bookrevs/manmay.html|title=A Man May Fish by TC Kingsmill Moore, Reviewed by Terry Lawton|work=Fish and Fly website|access-date=23 November 2009|archive-date=13 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113140208/http://www.fishandfly.co.uk/bookrevs/manmay.html|url-status=live}} Kingsmill Moore was elected for the Dublin University constituency as an independent member of Seanad Éireann in the 4th Seanad from 1943 to 1944 and to the 5th Seanad from 1944 to 1948. He resigned from the Seanad in June 1947 on his appointment as a judge of the Irish High Court.

He was a High Court judge from 1947 to 1951,{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Theodore-Conyngham-Kingsmill-Moore.S.1943-08-09/|title=Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill Moore|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=23 November 2009|archive-date=2018-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108185858/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Theodore-Conyngham-Kingsmill-Moore.S.1943-08-09|url-status=live}} and of the Supreme Court of Ireland from 1951 to 1966.{{cite web|url=http://www.supremecourt.ie/SupremeCourt/sclibrary3.nsf/0/ABF35041A7FAD2EA8025741800403A20?openDocument&l=en|title=Former Judges of the Supreme Court|work=Supreme Court of Ireland website|access-date=23 November 2009|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032142/http://www.supremecourt.ie/SupremeCourt/sclibrary3.nsf/0/ABF35041A7FAD2EA8025741800403A20?openDocument&l=en|url-status=live}}

A Kingsmill Moore Memorial Prize is given to students of Law at Trinity College Dublin scoring the highest marks of the first and second divisions.{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/1415-2/part-2-undergraduate-courses-and-other-general-information/prizes-and-other-awards/prizes-in-the-faculty-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/|title=Prizes in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences|work=Trinity College Dublin website|access-date=25 October 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924121505/http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/1415-2/part-2-undergraduate-courses-and-other-general-information/prizes-and-other-awards/prizes-in-the-faculty-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/|url-status=live}}