John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira

John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira

John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira (March 17 1720 – June 20 1793) was an Irish peer. He was the only son of Sir John Rawdon, 3rd Baronet and Dorothy Levinge.

He married, firstly, Helena Perceval, daughter of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont and Lady Catherine Parker, on 10 November 1741. They had two children:

*Lady Helena Rawdon, married Stephen Moore, 1st Earl Mountcashell and had issue.
*Lady Catherine Rawdon, married Joseph Henry.

He married, secondly, Anne Hill, daughter of Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough and Mary Rowe, on 23 December 1746. Childless.

He married, thirdly, Elizabeth Hastings, 16th Baroness Botreaux (1730–1808), daughter of Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon and Lady Selina Shirley, on 26 February 1752. They had five children:

*Lady Selina Frances Rawdon (d. 1827), married George Forbes, 6th Earl of Granard and had issue.
*Lady Charlotte Adelaide Constantia Rawdon (d. 1834), married Hamilton Fitzgerald.
*Lady Anne Elizabeth Rawdon (1753–1813), married Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury and had issue.
*Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826)
*Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon (1756–1808)


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