Edward William Moore, who was born in Coleshill, Berkshire in 1844, was a Methodist minister at Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the 1880's. By 1891 he had become an Anglican and was the vicar of Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon. E. W. Moore married Letita Maria Monck-Mason. Their daughter Sylvia May Payne (1880-1976) became an eminent psychologist and close colleague of the great Welsh psychoanalyst and close friend of Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones (1879-1958). Their son Henry Monck-Mason Moore (1887-1964) served as Governor of Sierra Leone, Kenya and then Ceylon, and received a knighthood.
E. W. Moore was one of the first ministers involved in the Keswick Convention from its very first meetings at Oxford. He was a personal witness to the Welsh revival. At the time of the revival, E. W. Moore was 60 years old. He wrote a contribution to the book, "The Story of the Welsh Revival", called "What I Saw and Heard in Wales."
