page_title: Arthur William Moore
section_title: Manx literature
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur William Moore / Manx literature
caption_attribution_description: English: The front cover of the first edition of 'The Manx Notebook, edited by A. W. Moore, January 1885
context_page_description: Arthur William Moore, CVO, SHK, JP, MA was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. He published under the sobriquet A. W. Moore.
context_section_description: Having learned as a young man the Manx language, he devoted much study to the then-neglected language, despised by British authorities.  He collected a vast vocabulary and traced its linguistic history. In 1899 he founded the Manx Language Society and became its first president, thus becoming the spiritual forefather of the neo-Manx language movement. He in 1893 edited for the Manx Society for the Publication of National Documents The Book of Common Prayer in Manx Gaelic, the earliest and longest manuscript in the language.
  Arthur Moore was also particularly interested in literature dealing with the Isle of Man and sought to conserve not only the language but the music, lore, and tradition of the island.  He founded and edited the Manx Notebook as well as writing a History of the Isle of Man and many other historical works on the Island.  As such he was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Meteorological Society.  He was also greatly involved in the revival of the Manx language and was the official translator of Acts of Tynwald into Manx.  Shortly after a Royal visit to the Island, Mr Moore was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.  He was also a Director of both the Isle of Man Bank and the Isle of Man Steam Packet.  He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1877 and was for many years the Captain of the Parish of Onchan before resigning in 1895.  Mr Moore was also a Mason and became the Junior Grand Deacon of the Province of the Isle of Man.
  Moore managed to settle the kerfuffle between P. M. C. Kermode and Dr. Guðbrandur Vigfússon of Oxford over the reading of runic inscriptions on Manx crosses, the correspondence of which appeared in Moore's own periodical "The Manx Note Book".
  At his death, he left unfinished a dictionary of the Anglo-Manx dialect, which was completed in 1924 by Manx scholars Sophia Morrison and Edmund Goodwin, as A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect.
caption: The first edition of 'The Manx Notebook'
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