Edward Moore

Playwright, born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He turned to writing plays when his business as a linen-draper failed. The comedy Gil Blas (1751), based on Lesage, and the tragedy The Gamester (1753), are his best-known productions. He also edited the weekly journal The World (1753–7).

Edward Moore (March 22, 1712 – March 1, 1757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire.

He was the author of the domestic tragedy of The Gamester, originally produced in 1753 with Garrick in the leading character of Beverley the gambler. As a poet he produced clever imitations of John Gay and Thomas Gray, and with the assistance of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton, Lord Chesterfield and Horace Walpole, conducted The World (1753-1757), a weekly periodical on the model of the Rambler.