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.

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

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and

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, where he was a contemporary of

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and

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.Lord Rothschild, ''Meditations of a Broomstick'' (London: Collins, 1977), p. 16. In 1940, he became a

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in the Territorial Army division of the

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. In 1946, he was appointed an

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(OBE).

Career

In 1946, he became managing director of ''

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'' and inherited his father's earldom in 1957. In 1964, he was promoted as a

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(KBE) and on his retirement in 1972, was appointed a Knight Companion of the Garter (KG). From 1974, he was President of the

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and from 1983, was Independent National Director of

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, holding both posts up until his death.

Personal life and death

On 16 May 1935, at

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, 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.

Arms

Sources

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References

External links

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Charles Moore with his mother, 1915
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People educated at Ludgrove School