sentences:  Moore was born in Bau, the son of the Reverend William Moore, Wesleyan Minister and missionary in Fiji, and his wife Mary Ann Ducker.The family arrived in Sydney in 1864 and Moore attended Newington College (1865–1869) when it was located at Newington House on the Parramatta River at Silverwater.From 1870 until 1872 he was a student teacher at the private High School, Goulburn, run by George Metcalfe who had been his Headmaster at Newington.