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Moule invented what is called the dry earth system. In partnership with James Bannehr, he took out a patent for the process (No. 1316, dated 28 May 1860). Among his works bearing on the subject were: ‘The Advantages of the Dry Earth System,’ 1868; ‘The Impossibility overcome: or the Inoffensive, Safe, and Economical Disposal of the Refuse of Towns and Villages,’ 1870; ‘The Dry Earth System,’ 1871; ‘Town Refuse, the Remedy for Local Taxation,’ 1872, and ‘National Health and Wealth promoted by the general adoption of the Dry Earth System,’ 1873. His system has been adopted in private houses, in rural districts, in military camps, in many hospitals, and extensively in India. He also wrote an important work, entitled ‘Eight Letters to Prince Albert, as President of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall,’ 1855, prompted by the condition of Fordington parish, belonging to the duchy. In two letters in the ‘Times’ of 24 Feb. and 2 April 1874 he advocated a plan for extracting gas from Kimmeridge shale. He died at Fordington vicarage, 3 Feb. 1880, having married in 1824 Mary Mullett Evans, who died 21 Aug. 1877.

In addition to the works already mentioned, and many single sermons and pamphlets, Moule wrote: 1. ‘Two Conversations between a Clergyman and one of his Parishioners on the Public Baptism of Infants,’ 1843. 2. ‘Scraps of Sacred Verse,’ 1846. 3. ‘Scriptural Church Teaching,’ 1848. 4. ‘Christian Oratory during the first Five Centuries,’ 1859. 5. ‘My Kitchen-Garden: by a Country Parson,’ 1860. 6. ‘Manure for the Million. A Letter to the Cottage Gardeners of England,’ 1861; 11th thousand, 1870. 7. ‘Self-supporting Boarding Schools and Day Schools for the Children of the Industrial Classes,’ 1862; 3rd edit. 1871. 8. ‘Good out of Evil. A Series of Letters publicly addressed to Dr. Colenso,’ 1863. 9. ‘Pardon and Peace: illustrated by ministerial Memorials, to which are added some Pieces of Sacred Verse,’ 1865. 10. ‘Our Home Heathen, how can the Church of England get at them,’ 1868. 11. ‘“These from the Land of Sinim.” The Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician [Dzing, Seen Sang],’ 1868. 12. ‘Land for the Million to rent. Addressed to the Working Classes of England; by H. M.,’ 1870. 13. ‘On the Warming of Churches,’ 1870. 14. ‘The Science of Manure as the Food of Plants,’ 1870. 15. ‘The Potatoe Disease, its Cause and Remedy. Three Letters to the Times,’ 1872. 16. ‘Harvest Hymns,’ 1877.

 MOULE, THOMAS (1784–1851), writer on heraldry and antiquities, born 14 Jan. 1784 in the parish of St. Marylebone, London, carried on business as a bookseller in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, from about 1816 till about 1823, and he was subsequently a clerk in the General Post Office, where he was inspector of 'blind' letters, his principal duty being to decipher such addresses as were illegible to the ordinary clerks. He retired after forty-four years' service in consequence of failing health. He also held for many years the office of chamber-keeper in the lord chamberlain's department, and this gave him an official residence in the Stable Yard, St. James's Palace, where he died on 14 Jan. 1851, leaving a widow and an only daughter, who had materially assisted him in his literary pursuits.

Moule was a member of the Numismatic Society, and contributed some papers to the 'Numismatic Chronicle.' His principal works are: 1. 'A Table of Dates for the use of Genealogists and Antiquaries' (anon.), 1820. 2. 'Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ. An Analytical Catalogue of Books in Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility, Knighthood, and Ceremonies; with a List of Provincial Visitations. . . and other Manuscripts; and a Supplement enumerating the principal Foreign Genealogical Works,' Lond. 1822, 4to, with portrait of William Camden. In the British Museum there is a copy of this accurate and valuable work, interleaved with copious manuscript corrections and additions, and an additional volume of further corrections, &c., 3 vols. 4to. 3. 'Antiquities in Westminster Abbey, illustrated by twelve plates, from drawings by G. P. Harding,' Lond. 1825, 4to. 4. ' An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age, their architectural disposition and enrichments, and on the Remains of Roman Domestic Edifices discovered in Great Britain,' Lond. 1833, 8vo. 5. ' English Counties delineated; or a Topographical Description of England. Illustrated by a Map of London and a complete Series of County Maps,' 2 vols. Lond. 1837, 4to; new title 1839. Moule personally visited every county in England excepting Devon and Cornwall. 6. 'Heraldry of Fish, Notices of the principal families bearing Fish in their Arms,' Lond. 1842, 8vo, with beautiful woodcuts, from drawings made by his