Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda
KG,
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(23 April 1910 – 24 December 1989), styled Viscount Moore until 1957 and known commonly as Garrett Moore, was a British
peer
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.
Early life
Lord Drogheda was the eldest son of
The 10th Earl of Drogheda and his first wife,
Kathleen Pelham Burn, and was educated at
Ludgrove,
Eton and
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of
Victor Rothschild and
Guy Burgess.
[Lord Rothschild, ''Meditations of a Broomstick'' (London: Collins, 1977), p. 16. ] In 1940, he became a
captain
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in the
Territorial Army division of the
Royal Artillery. In 1946, he was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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(OBE).
Career
In 1946, he became Managing Director of ''
The Financial Times'' and inherited his father's earldom in 1957. In 1964, he was promoted as a
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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(KBE) and on his retirement in 1972, was appointed a
Knight of the Garter (KG). From 1974, he was President of the
Institute of Directors and from 1983, was Independent National Director of
Times Newspapers, holding both posts up until his death.
Personal life and death
On 16 May 1935,
at
City Hall
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in
New York City, Drogheda, then Viscount Moore, married Joan Eleanor Carr (1902–1989, née Joan Eleanor M. Birkbeck), a former wife of Dawson R. Miller and a former wife of violinist Isek D. Melsak (known professionally as Daniel Melsa). A concert pianist, she was the only child of Lilian Henrietta Birkbeck (née White, formerly Mrs. James Braidwood Birkbeck) and William Henry Carr, aka William Henry Carr-Birkbeck, who were unmarried. A newspaper report noted that on the marriage application, Lord Moore's fiancée stated that her two prior marriages had ended in 1929 and 1930, that she was employed as an "artiste", and that "she could not remember the name of her father."
The Droghedas had one child,
Henry "Derry" Dermot Ponsonby (born 1937), a photographer, who inherited the earldom upon his father's death. Lord Drogheda died on 24 December 1989, aged 79.
Sources
*
Burke's Peerage
References
External links
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Charles Moore with his mother, 1915
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1910 births
1989 deaths
British Army personnel of World War II
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Knights of the Garter
People educated at Eton College
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Royal Artillery officers
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People educated at Ludgrove School