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James Moore [later Carrick Moore] (1762–1860) was a biographer and surgeon, with a particular interest in the new practice of vaccination. He was a colleague and friend of Edward Jenner.

Biography
James Moore was born on 21 December 1762 in Glasgow, one of eight sons and three daughters of John Moore, physician, and Jean Simson. Like his father he studied medicine – in Edinburgh and London – and became a house surgeon at St George's Hospital. He served as an army medical officer in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War and returned to Britain in early 1782. He later was surgeon to the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards.

Moore published extensively on reducing pain during surgery; the history of small pox; the history of vaccination; and pamphlets defending vaccination and arguing against the “anti-vaxxers” of the day. But Carrick Moore, as he later styled himself, will probably be best-known for his biography of his elder brother Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore who died at the Battle of Corunna in 1809, during the Peninsular War.

Family
James Moore married Harriet Henderson, daughter of the actor John Henderson, at St George's, Hanover Square on 31 December 1798. They had five children: Harriet Jane, Louisa, Julia, John Carrick and Graham Francis.

James Carrick Moore died on 1 June 1860 at 9 Clarges Street, London.