ADB online 15 April 2017 (Thomas Moore (1762-1840), sailor, farmer and philanthropist, was born in England of humble parents. He took to the sea and in October 1791 arrived in the Britannia in Sydney. In May 1796 he berthed in Port Jackson again, and went ashore as a free settler. Governor John Hunter made him master boatbuilder in the dockyard at Port Jackson, and thereafter he prospered. In 1809 he withdrew from Sydney and settled down on his property at Moorebank, becoming one of the colony's largest landowners and suupliers, visiting England, also Adelaide; he was a member of the Church of England but also supported activities of other churches. He died on 24 December 1840, leaving all his property to the Church of England; his bequests provided (inter alia) for the establishment of Moore Theological College, which opened in Liverpool in 1856 and transferred to Newtown in 1891.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-thomas-2476
Bolt, Peter. A portrait in his actions : Thomas Moore of Liverpool (1762-1840), 2011.
Bolt, Peter. Thomas Moore of Liverpool, one of our oldest colonists, c2007 t.p. (Thomas Moore) Australian CIP (Moore, Thomas, 1762-1840)