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 466 DROGHEDA afterwards i8th Hussars, 1 762-1 821; Master Gen. of the Ordnance [I.] 1770-97; Major Gen. 1770; Lieut. Gen. 1777; Gen. 1793; Muster Master Gen. [I.] May to Nov. 1807; Field Marshal 19 July 1821. Sec. to the Lord Lieut. [I.] 1764-65; Gov. of Kinsale 1764-70; Constable of Maryborough Castle 1 765-1 822; a Lordjustice [I.] 1766-67; a Gov. from 1764, and Custos Rot. of King's Co. 1766, and Custos Rot. from 1769, and a Gov. of Queen's Co. 1774, holding all four till his death; M.P. for Horsham 1776-80; Joint Postmaster Gen. [L] 1797-1806; nom. K.P. 5 Feb., and inv. 11 Mar. 1783, being one of the 15 original Knights.(0 On 5 July 1 79 1 ,{") he was cr. MARQUESS OF DROGHEDA [I.], taking his seat as such 5 Mar. 1795, and on 17 Jan. 1801, he was cr. BARON MOORE OF MOORE PLACE, co. Kent [U.K.J-O He m., 15 Feb. 1766, Anne, ist da. of Francis (Seymour-Conway), ist Marquess OF Hertford, by Isabella, da. of Charles (Fitzroy), 2nd Duke of Grafton. She, who was i. i Aug. 1744, d. v.p., 4 Nov. 1784. He d. in Sackville Str., Dublin, 22 Dec. 1822, and was l>ur. 3 Jan. 1823, aged 92, in St. Peter's, Drogheda.n MARQUESSATE [I.] ] 2, 7, and 9. Edward (') (Moore), II. EARLDOM [1.] VII. VISCOUNTCY [I. IX. Marquess of Drogheda, &'c. [I.], also Baron Moore of Moore Place, ist s. and h., ^ 23 Aug. 1770, sty/ed Viscount Moore till 1822; M.P. for Queen's Co. 1790, but unseated on petition Mar. 1 791; an officer in the 15th Light Dragoons. He d. unm., 6 Feb. 1837, aged 68, at Greatford,co. Lincoln, having been insane for 45 years.(*) (') See a list of these Knights, vol. i, p. 227, note " c," sub Arran. C') The Marquessate was an honour of which he had long been desirous, and in Mar. 1776, the King wrote to Lord Bute, "I cannot but express my astonish- ment at Lord Harcourt's presumption in telling Lord Drogheda there would be no difficulty in making him a Marquis ... I desire to hear no more of Irish marquises. I feel for English Earls, and do not choose to disgust them." For a list of the pro- fuse promotions and creations in the Irish peerage see vol. iii. Appendix H. His name is not found in any important division list in the House of Lords, but he appears to have been a Tory. V.G. ('^) On this occasion Lord Cornwallis, the Lord Lieut., wrote, "I only recom- mended him as being the oldest Marquis in order to assist me in providing room for friends in the representative peerage." {Correspondence, vol. iii, p. 269). V.G. ('') " A very eccentric character, passionately fond of play, to which he was a victim all his life, and subjected to great pecuniary embarrassments. In his later years his estates were put out to nurse, and a moderate pension was allowed to him by his creditors." {Ralkes' Diary). V.G. («) Not Charles, as in the peerages, and in Did. Nat. Biog. See Hist, of the Moore Family, 1905, by the Countess of Drogheda. V.G. («) Annual Register, 1837.