Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Drogheda PC (I) (died 11 January 1676) was an Anglo-Irish peer, politician and soldier. Moore was the son of Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore of Drogheda, by his wife Hon. Alice Loftus, the youngest daughter of

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. He served in the

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as the

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for

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between 1639 and 1643, when he succeeded to his father's viscountcy. He became a

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Colonel of Horse and served as Governor of Meath of

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in 1643. Moore served in the forces of

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and fought at the

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in August 1647. In 1653 he was forced to pay £6,953 to the Commonwealth government in order to retain his estates under the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652. Following the

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he was made Governor of Drogheda in 1660 and invested as a member of the

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. On 14 June 1661, he was created Earl of Drogheda in the

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. He married Hon. Alice Spencer, sister of

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and the fifth daughter of

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and Lady Penelope Wriothesley. They had five children.John Debrett, ''Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland'' (1840), p.249. He was succeeded in 1676 by his eldest son, Charles. His younger son Henry, who became the third Earl upon Charles's death in 1679—and assumed the name Henry Hamilton-Moore upon succeeding to the estates of his brother-in-law, Henry Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil—developed several streets in

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which still bear his name: Henry Street,

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, Of Lane (now "Off Lane") and Drogheda Street. Alice outlived her husband by many years. She seems to have been a person of considerable strength of character. She was appointed guardian to her infant grandson

Christopher Fleming, 17th Baron Slane Christopher Fleming, 1st Viscount Longford and 17th Baron Slane (1669–1726), was an Irish peer and a member of the Irish parliament of 1689. Career Lord Slane was a Roman Catholic who had been educated in France at University of Douai. He was ...

(son of her daughter Penelope and the 16th Baron). She lobbied the Crown vigorously for restoration to her grandson of all lands forfeited by the Fleming family during the troubles of the 1640s and 50s.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Drogheda, Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Year of birth unknown 1676 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Irish people Cavaliers Moore, Henry Members of the Irish House of Lords Members of the Privy Council of Ireland People of the Irish Confederate Wars Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Louth constituencies Earls of Drogheda