Lord Clare
- Item sets
- People
- Name
- Lord Clare
- Biography
- First Lord of the Board of Trade. When George Moore described the sufferings of Manx people to him in London — the towns emptied, the young people leaving, the warehouses deserted — Clare responded with contempt: 'The inhabitants of all the former trading towns, he said, were a Nest of Vermin collected from the Dregs of the neighbouring Countries.' Moore's quiet response: 'since the Trade was gone all or most of these Gentry were gone and had dissolved like snow.' Clare's contempt was pure. Moore accommodated it, conceding the secondary point in the hope of winning the primary one.
- Active Period
- fl. 1760s
- Place
- London
- Period
- Crown Administration
- Related To
- George Moore
- Role / Office
- First Lord of the Board of Trade
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 12