More was a Whig of the old type, Puritan in his feelings and by family tradition. ‘As the civil and religious liberties have been driven to a party for their support in the Parliament of 1641,’ he wrote on 19 June 1759,
On 25 Oct. 1753, when More had been out of Parliament twelve years, a group of Protestant Dissenters, burgesses of Shrewsbury, wrote to invite him to become a candidate at the forthcoming general election.
Mr. More of Shrewsbury, an old and acute Member, proposed to erect a statue to the Speaker’s memory, with great encomiums on the authority with which he had formerly kept in order such men as then filled the Treasury bench and composed the Opposition, naming among the former Sir Robert Walpole and Mr. Pelham, the latter of whom, he said, had the honour of dying a commoner. More was a Whig of the primitive stamp, and though attached to Sir Robert Walpole, had withstood, and by the force of his honest abilities, had defeated the intended clemency of that minister to some attainted Jacobite families with respect to their estates. He had long abstained from Parliament, returned to it without his former success, and now appeared there for the last time.
More died 5 Jan. 1780.