Robert Clements Moore (31 January 1872 â 6 June 1938) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in both the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and the Victorian Football League (VFL).
One of the six children of Robert Clements Moore (1834-1883), and Catherine Lester Moore (1940-1873), née Taggart, Robert Clements Moore was born at Richmond, Victoria on 31 January 1872.
He married Beatrice Amy Campbell (1878-1957) in Ascot Vale on 2 April 1896. They had three children: James William Moore (1901âÂÂ1957), Ella Enid Moore (1904âÂÂ1928), later, Mrs. Neil Mayger, and Nancy Alice Moore (1906âÂÂ1977), later, Mrs. Sam Peters.
Recruited by Melbourne (VFA) in 1892 from the Parkside Football Club, he played in 18 matches in 1892, in 20 matches in 1893, in 16 matches in 1894, in only 4 matches in 1895, and one match in 1896.
Having not played at all in 1897, he played in two senior VFL matches for Melbourne in 1898, and retired due to his long-standing leg injuries.
Moore, aged 28, the accountant and cashier of the Equity Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company, in Queen Street Melbourne, was arrested on 17 January 1900, and charged with having stolen ã407/19/- from his employers (for whom he had worked since he was 15).
On 9 February 1900, he was found guilty of larceny as a servant and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, with hard labour.
He died at the Hellenic Private Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales on 6 June 1938.