George Edward Moore was born in Upper Norwood, Surrey, a suburb of London, on 4 November 1873, the third of the three sons and fifth of the eight children of Daniel Moore, a physician, and Henrietta Sturge Moore. At eight he was enrolled at Dulwich College, a boarding and day school near his home, where his aptitude for Greek and Latin resulted in his specializing in classics, rather than natural science or mathematics. Under the influence of his headmaster he read Plato and developed a great admiration for Socrates. At twelve he was converted to evangelical Christianity and became a member of the Children's Special Service Mission, an organization similar to the Salvation Army; but two years later his oldest brother, the poet Thomas Sturge Moore, persuaded him to become an agnostic, a position Moore retained for the rest of his life.
Moore entered Trinity College of the University of Cambridge in 1892 to continue his classical studies.
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