Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville PC (24 January 1712 – 17 February 1764), known as The Lord Moore between 1725 and 1758, was an Irish peer and freemason. Moore was the son of

John Moore, 1st Baron Moore John Moore, 1st Baron Moore PC (c. 1676 – 8 September 1725), was an Irish politician. Moore was the son of Thomas Moore and Ellen Colley, daughter of Dudley Cowley, Member of Parliament for Philipstown. He was returned to the Irish Parliam ...

, and Mary Lum, daughter of Elnathan Lum. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and succeeded his father in the barony in 1725.thepeerage.com Charles Moore, 1st and last Earl of Charleville
/ref> He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1746 and created Earl of Charleville, in the King's County, in the

Irish peerage The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divis ...

in 1758. From 1761 to 1764 he was Governor and Custos Rotulorum of King's County. Lord Charleville married Hester Coghill, daughter of James Coghill, in 1737. The marriage was childless. He died in February 1764, aged 51, when the barony and earldom became extinct. He left his estates to his nephew John Bury, whose son Charles was created

Earl of Charleville Earl of Charleville was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1758 when Charles Moore, 2nd Baron Moore, was made Earl of Charleville, in the King's County. The title Baron Moore, of Tullamore in the ...

in 1806. Lady Charleville married Sir John Cogill, 1st Baronet. She died in July 1789.

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