Contributions towards a Cybele hibernica, being outlines of the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland

David Moore was born in Kenya during World War II and was a young witness to some of the events in this book. He was educated in Kenya and attended the Duke of York School on the outskirts of Nairobi. After his education there he left Kenya, and soon afterwards became an Articled Clerk with a firm of Chartered Accountants in London, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He pursued a career in commerce with a variety of companies, finally ending up on the south coast of England at Poole, Dorset. He married his wife Carolyn, to whom he had been introduced by his cousin, (in Northern Ireland) and together had a son and a daughter. Being retired he is now able to devote some time to the Swanage Railway where he is a regular volunteer.