Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda PC (I) (1701 – 28 October 1758) was an

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peer and politician.

Background

Moore was the second son of Charles Moore, Lord Moore, son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda, and Jane Loftus, daughter of Lord Loftus.John Debrett, ''Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland'' (1840), p. 249. He served in the

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as the

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for

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between 1725 and 1727 when he succeeded to his elder brother's titles and took his seat in the

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. In 1748 he was invested as a member of the

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and made a Governor of Meath. He married, firstly, Lady Sarah Ponsonby, daughter of

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, and Sarah Margetson, in 1727, with whom he had six sons and two daughters. Following her death on 19 January 1736, Moore married, secondly, Bridget Southwell, daughter of William Southwell and Lucy Bowen, on 13 October 1737. Moore was lost in a storm at sea while travelling between

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and

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in 1758 and was succeeded by his eldest son,

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, who created

Marquess of Drogheda A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman wi ...

in 1791.

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1701 births 1750s missing person cases 1758 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Earls of Drogheda Irish MPs 1715–1727 Members of the Irish House of Lords Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Louth constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Missing person cases in Europe People lost at sea {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub

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