Remembering Maurice M Moore

Prefects Standing: (left to right) C E Yhap, C V Lewis, W A Chin, R C Bacchus, R N Lee, I H D Harewood, R V Moore, W nurse. Sitting: (left to right) F E Mongul, L Kerry, W I Lee (Head prefect and Captain of the School), Capt H Nobbs (Principal), R L Clarke, D D Chundun and M M Moore Absentees: S Jaikran, C S Pilgrim and L E Owens

By Earl B John

Regrettably so few of us are around to pay tribute to one of the great all-round sportsmen of his generation – Maurice Moore, who died on January 8, 2012, in a nursing home in Toronto, Canada, after languishing for several months during which he reportedly lost conscious touch with his family and the rest of the world.

Maurice Moore attended Queen’s College from the late 1940s to early ’50s, where he excelled in football, cricket,