Earl of Drogheda

The title Earl of Drogheda (pronounced "Dro-hed-ah", see Drogheda for more information) was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1661 for the 3rd Viscount Moore, and is extant.

Lord Drogheda also holds the titles Viscount Moore, of Drogheda (created in 1621), and Baron Moore, of Mellefont in the County of Louth (created in 1616) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Moore, of Cobham in the County of Surrey (created in 1954 for the 10th Earl), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The 6th Earl was created Marquess of Drogheda in the Peerage of Ireland in 1791 and Baron Moore, of Moore Place in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801, but these titles became extinct on the death without heirs of the 3rd Marquess (and 8th Earl).

The family properties included Moore Abbey at Monasterevin in County Kildare until 1938.^[1]

Viscounts Moore (1621)

• Gerard Moore, 1st Viscount Moore (d. 1627)
• Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore (1603–1643)
• Henry Moore, 3rd Viscount Moore (d. 1675) (created Earl of Drogheda in 1661)

Earls of Drogheda (1661)

• Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Drogheda (d. 1675)
• Charles Moore, 2nd Earl of Drogheda (d. 1679)
• Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda (d. 1714)
  • Charles Moore, Lord Moore (d. 1714)
• Henry Moore, 4th Earl of Drogheda (1700–1727)
• Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda (1701–1758)
• Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda (1730–1822) (created Marquess of Drogheda in 1791)

Marquesses of Drogheda (1791)

• Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (1730–1822)
• Charles Moore, 2nd Marquess of Drogheda (1770–1837)
• Henry Francis Seymour Moore, 3rd Marquess of Drogheda (1825–1892)

Earls of Drogheda (1661) (continued)

• Ponsonby William Moore, 9th Earl of Drogheda (1846–1908) (elected a Representative Peer in 1899)
• Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda (1884–1957) (elected a Representative Peer in 1913, granted a UK barony in 1954)
• Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda (1910–1989)
• Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (b. 1937)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Benjamin Garrett Henderson Moore, Viscount Moore (b. 1983)

References

1. ^ http://www.kildare.ie/tourism/towns/monasterevin.asp

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