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Henry Charles Moore

1862–1933

A journalist with a taste for history and adventure, this late-Victorian writer moved between newspapers, magazines, and lively nonfiction. He is best remembered today for his detailed account of London’s early road transport, alongside boys’ adventure stories set across the British Empire.

2 Audiobooks

Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines

Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines

by Henry Charles Moore

Omnibuses and cabs : $b their origin and history

Omnibuses and cabs : $b their origin and history

by Henry Charles Moore

About the author

Born in 1862 and dying in 1933, he was an English author and journalist. Available reference pages describe him as having worked as assistant editor of the Rangoon Gazette, Good Words and the Sunday Magazine, and The Record, and also as a London correspondent for the Empress of Calcutta.

His writing ranged widely. He produced adventure fiction for younger readers, including imperial and military tales, but he is especially associated with Omnibuses and Cabs: Their Origin and History (1902), a substantial history of London road passenger transport that has remained his best-known work.

The surviving online record is fairly brief, so many personal details are not well documented in the sources I could confirm. Even so, the picture that emerges is of a versatile professional writer whose career joined journalism, popular history, and energetic storytelling.