S. R. Logan

At school I enjoyed success in a range of subjects, but elected to go into science. At Queen’s University I did Chemistry for a BSc, postgrad work for a PhD, and thereafter pursued academic research in Indiana and in Leeds before taking up a Lectureship at Strathclyde. At the foundation of a university in my home town I moved to Coleraine, where I remained as a Reader until retirement. There were short periods of study leave that enabled me to go to Bordeaux, to Christchurch, New Zealand and to West Berlin. My academic publications earned me a higher doctorate and I wrote two books, one of which was translated into German, French and Spanish.

Approaching retirement, I took the opportunity to study with the Open University and retrain as a historian. While I was reading widely in history and biography I wondered about doing a biography myself, but could identify no obvious target, that is someone of sufficient importance for the work to be attractive, but not so important as to have been “done” already. Then in 2013, after a stimulating discussion, I had the sudden idea of writing about the lives of Rev Robert and Mrs Margaret Moore of Ringsend. As a result I have now had a fair amount of experience in using the archives and The Moores of Ringsend Manse is in print.