Henry Spencer Moore was born on the 30th. of July 1898 at 30 Roundhill Road, Castleford. He was the seventh of the eight children of Raymond Spencer Moore, and his wife Mary Baker. His father, a miner, was an intelligent man who read and studied widely. He was determined that all his children should be well educated, and that no son of his should work down the pit.
Henry Moore went to infant and elementary schools in Castleford, and then in 1910, like several of his brothers and sisters he won a scholarship to Castleford Secondary School, which later became a Grammar School.
One of his sculptures 'Reclining Figure' is outside the Castleford Civic Centre.
Henry Moore died at the age of eighty-eight on the 31st. of August 1986.
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