Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda

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Early life

Moore was the eldest of six sons and two daughters of Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda and, his first wife, Lady Sarah Ponsonby.<ref name="Pine1972">L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 108.</ref>

His paternal grandparents were Charles Moore, Lord Moore (a son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda) and Jane Loftus. His maternal grandparents were the former Sarah Margetson and Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

Career

Moore joined the Army in 1744 as a cornet in the 12th Dragoons,<ref name=hp>Template:Cite book</ref> and bore the colours at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746 during the Jacobite risings.<ref name=odnb>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> He was promoted captain in 1750 and reached the rank of major in 1752 and the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel on 18 January 1755.<ref name=hp/> Promoted to brevet colonel of dragoons on 19 February 1762,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> Moore became honorary colonel of his regiment on 3 August 1762.<ref name=rmc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He commanded the 18th Light Dragoons during operations against the Whiteboys in Ireland which started in 1762.<ref name=heath222/>

Promoted to major-general on 30 April 1770,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> Moore became Master-General of the Irish Ordnance and colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Artillery in 1770.<ref name=odnb/> Moore served as Muster-Master-General in Ireland from May to November 1807 and was promoted to field marshal on 17 July 1821, aged 91.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Political career

In 1757 Moore became Member of Parliament for St Canice, holding the seat until he succeeded to his father's titles in 1758.<ref name=heath222>Heathcote, p. 222</ref> He was also elected Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in 1758, a post he held for the next two years.<ref>Waite, p. 400</ref> He became Governor of County Meath in January 1759 and lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 19th (later 18th) Light Dragoons on 7 December 1759.<ref name=odnb/>

He became Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1763, Governor of Kinsale and Charles Fort in 1765<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and a Lord Justice of Ireland in 1766.<ref name=heath222/> He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of King's County in 1766 and Custos Rotulorum of Queen's County in 1769, both offices for life.<ref name=odnb/>

He became Member of Parliament for Horsham in 1776,<ref name=heath222/> and having been promoted to lieutenant-general on 29 August 1777,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> he was appointed one of the Founder Knights of the Order of St. Patrick on 17 March 1783.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Peerage

Moore succeeded as 6th Earl of Drogheda following the death of his father at sea while travelling from England to Dublin in October 1758.<ref name=odnb/>

Created Marquess of Drogheda in the Peerage of Ireland in July 1791<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> in recognition of the support he had given the Government, Moore was promoted to full general on 12 October 1793.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He was appointed one of the joint Postmasters General of Ireland in 1797.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In January 1801, he was made Baron Moore, of Moore Place in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Personal life

On 15 February 1766, Moore married Lady Anne Seymour-Conway, the daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford. He commissioned Moore Abbey as his country home in 1767.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They had eight children, including:<ref name="Mosley2003">Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1181.</ref>

Charles Moore, 2nd Marquess of Drogheda (1770–1837), an MP for Queen's County from 1790 to 1791 who died unmarried.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Lady Elizabeth Emily Moore (1771–1841), who married George Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Hon. Henry Moore (d. 1825), who married Hon. Mary Letitia Parnell, second daughter of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Dawson (eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Portarlington), in 1824.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Lady Mary Moore (d. 1842), who married Alexander Stewart, of Ards, brother of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, and second son of Alexander Stewart, in 1791.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Lady Gertrude Moore, who died unmarried.<ref>Sir Bernard Burke, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 53rd edition (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1891), page 446.</ref>
Lady Frances Moore (d. 1833), who married John Ormsby Vandeleur, in 1800.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

He was an important patron of the artist William Ashford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lord Drogheda died in Dublin on 22 December 1821 and was buried at St Peter's Church in Drogheda.<ref name=heath222/><ref name="Longman1824">Template:Cite book</ref> His wife's family had a tradition of mental illness, which may explain the fact that their elder son went insane in his twenties.<ref>Hyde, p. 157</ref>

Descendants

Through his son Henry, he was a grandfather of the Henry Moore, 3rd and last Marquess of Drogheda.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>