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G. Greville (George Greville) Moore

1852–1933

Best known for lively memoirs of high society, this late Victorian and Edwardian writer turned personal recollection into entertaining social history. His books offer a chatty, firsthand glimpse of Eton, court life, and the circles he moved in.

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Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

by G. Greville (George Greville) Moore

About the author

George Greville Moore (1852–1933), who published as G. Greville Moore, was a British memoirist and man of society whose surviving reputation rests mainly on books of reminiscence. Catalog and public-domain records connect him with works including Society recollections in Paris and Vienna, 1879–1904, More society recollections, and Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860–1912.

His writing seems to have drawn heavily on personal experience, especially the social world of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe. Memories of an Old Etonian suggests a strong link to Eton and presents the kind of anecdotal, conversational storytelling that makes memoirs from this period appealing to modern listeners.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his dates and books is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him as a chronicler of elite social life rather than a novelist or scholar. For readers interested in manners, memory, and the texture of a vanished world, his work has clear period charm.