Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda PC (Ire) (died 7 June 1714) was an

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peer and soldier.

Early life

He was born Henry Moore as a younger son of

Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Drogheda 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 Adam ...

(d. 1675) and Hon. Alice Spencer.Charles Kidd and David Williamson, editor, ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (

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, 1999), volume 12, page 1870. His elder brother,

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, married Lady Letitia Isabella Robartes (eldest daughter of 1st Earl of Radnor).George Edward Cokayne, editor, ''The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes'' ();

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, 1983), volume IV, page 463. Among his siblings were Hon. William Moore (who married Lady Elizabeth Brabazon, widow of the 3rd Earl of Meath and daughter of the 14th Lord Dacre and Elizabeth Bayning, ''

suo jure ''Suo jure'' is a Latin phrase, used in English to mean 'in his own right' or 'in her own right'. In most nobility-related contexts, it means 'in her own right', since in those situations the phrase is normally used of women; in practice, especi ...

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), Lady Alice Moore (wife of the 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil and the 2nd Lord Bargeny), and Lady Mary Moore (wife of the 3rd Earl of Dalhousie and the 2nd Lord Bellenden). His paternal grandparents were

Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore of Drogheda Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore of Drogheda (1603-1643) was an Irish aristocrat noted for his leadership of Irish Royalist forces in northern Leinster during the early stages of the Irish Confederate Wars. Background He was the third but elde ...

, and the Hon. Alice Loftus (youngest daughter of the 1st Viscount Loftus).John Debrett, ''Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland'' (1840), p.249. His uncle was

Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, 3rd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton (c. 23 November 1620 – 20 September 1643), known as The Lord Spencer between 1636 and June 1643, was an English peer, nobleman, and politician from the Spencer family who ...

, and his maternal grandparents were

William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton (christened 4 January 1591 – 19 December 1636) was an English nobleman, politician, and peer from the Spencer family. Life Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormlei ...

and Lady Penelope Wriothesley (eldest daughter of the 3rd Earl of Southampton).G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

, 2000), volume IV, page 463.

Career

Upon the death of his brother on 18 June 1679, he succeeded as the title of 3rd

Earl of Drogheda Earl of Drogheda is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1661 for The 3rd Viscount Moore. History The Moore family descends from Sir Garrett Moore, a staunch friend of Hugh O'Neill, the Great Earl of Tyrone, whose submission ...

, a title that had been created for his father in the

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in 1661. He also succeeded to his family's subsidiary titles, as the 5th

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of Mellefont (which had been created for his great-grandfather, Garret Moore, in 1616) and the 5th

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(created in 1622, also for his great-grandfather Garret). On the death of his sister, the Dowager Countess of Clanbrassil, who had devised upon him the

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estates in her will, he assumed the additional surname of Hamilton in 1677. He was appointed Privy Counsellor for Ireland in 1680. From 1689 to 1698, he was Colonel of a Regiment of Foot. He was

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in his absence by the Irish Parliament of King James II in 1689, against whom he fought at the Battles of the Boyne and

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on the side of King

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. From 1696 to 1697 and, again, from 1701 to 1702, he served as a

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. In 1699, he was Commissioner for forfeited estates. He also served as Governor of Meath and

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, pp. 1180-1182.

Personal life

On 3 July 1675, he married Mary Cole (d. 1726), daughter of

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and Elizabeth Chichester (a daughter of Hon. John Chichester MP, second son of the 1st Viscount Chichester, and of Hon. Mary Jones, a daughter of the 1st Viscount Ranelagh).. Mary was also a sister of Arthur Cole, 1st Baron Ranelagh. Together, they were the parents of: * Charles Moore, Viscount Moore (1676–1714), MP for

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who married Hon. Jane Loftus, only daughter and heiress of Arthur Loftus, 3rd Viscount Loftus. * Hon. Henry Moore, the Rector of Malpas and Wilmslow who married Catherine ( Knatchbull) Rooke, widow of Vice-Admiral

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and only daughter of Sir Thomas Knatchbull, 3rd Baronet. * Hon. John Moore (d. 1716), who married Elizabeth ( Porter) Devenish, widow of Edward Devenish of

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, and youngest daughter of Sir Charles Porter,

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, in 1708. * Hon. William Moore (d. 1732), who married Lucy Parkinson, daughter of Rev. Edward Parkinson, of Ardee, in 1717. * Hon. Robert Moore (1688–1762), MP for

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and

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who married, as her third husband, Lady Anne Lennard, ''

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, in 1725. The eldest surviving daughter and heiress of

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and Lady Anne FitzRoy (eldest illegitimate daughter of King Charles II), Anne was the widow of Richard Barrett-Lennard and

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. * Hon. Capel Moore, who married Lady Mary O'Neill, widow of Charles O'Neill, of

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and eldest daughter of

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. * Lady Alice Moore (d. ), who married

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. * Lady Elizabeth Moore, who married George Rochfort, MP for

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, in 1704. Lord Drogheda died on 7 June 1714 and was succeeded in his titles by his grandson,

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, as his eldest son,

, predeceased him. His widow, the dowager Countess of Drogheda, died on 6 May 1726.

References

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