Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda

Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (born 14 January 1937), is a British photographer known professionally as Derry Moore. He inherited the title of Earl of Drogheda from his father, The 11th Earl of Drogheda. He had the right to use the courtesy title Viscount Moore from November 1957 until December 1989.

Education and career Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore was born on 14 January 1937 in London into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, the son of Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda, and Joan Eleanor ( Carr). He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, like his father, before studying painting at Oskar Kokoschka's School of Seeing in Salzburg, Austria. After working briefly as a travel agent in New York City, he took photography lessons from British photographer Bill Brandt.

Lord Drogheda photographed Queen Elizabeth II, the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Indira Gandhi, Ronald Reagan, David Bowie, Iman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Helena Bonham Carter, as well as many other personalities. He became a leading photographer of architectural interiors and an illustrator of books, and had portraits published in Country Life and Vogue. He has thirty-seven portraits in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

He hosted a book launch event in London for Venetian Gardens, which he co-authored with broadcaster Monty Don. The event gathered guests from the fields of art, literature, and media, including Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and makeup artist Mary Greenwell.

Books The Dream Come True: Great Houses of Los Angeles; text by Brendan Gill (Lippincott & Crowell, 1980, ) Royal Gardens; by George Plumptre (Collins, 1981, ) Debrett's The Stately Homes of Britain: Introduced by the Owners; by Sybilla Jane Flower (Webb & Bower, 1982, ) Washington: Houses of the Capital; text by Henry Mitchell (Viking Press, 1982, ) The Englishwoman's House; edited by Alvilde Lees-Milne (Collins, 1984, ) The English Room; with Michael Pick (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985, ) The Englishman's Room; edited by Alvilde Lees-Milne (Viking, 1986, ) The Gardens of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. A Personal Tour with The Marchioness of Salisbury (Viking, 1988, ) The Shell Guide to the Gardens of England and Wales; with Sarah Hollis (Andre Deutsch, 1989, ) Evening Ragas: A Photographer in India (John Murray, 1997, ) Inside the House of Lords; with Clive Aslet (HarperCollins, 1998, ) Rooms; edited by Joseph Holtzman (Rizzoli, 2006, ) Notting Hill (Frances Lincoln, 2007, ) A Gardener's Life; by The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury (Frances Lincoln, 2007, ) Sir John Soane's Museum, London; text by Tim Knox (Merrell, 2009, ) 3rd edition, 2016 In House; text by Mitchell Owens (Rizzoli, 2009, ) Great Gardens of Italy; with Monty Don (Quadrille, 2011, ) An English Room (Prestel, 2013, ) Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House; by David Cholmondeley & Andrew Moore (Skira, 2014, ) Horses: Portraits by Derry Moore (Rizzoli, 2016, ) In the Shadow of the Raj: Derry Moore in India (Prestel, 2017, ) Great English Interiors; with David Mlinaric (Prestel, 2018, ); reissued 2023. Paradise Gardens: The World's Most Beautiful Islamic Gardens; with Monty Don (Two Roads, 2018, ) Japanese Gardens: A Journey; with Monty Don (Two Roads, 2019, ) London's Great Theatres; text by Simon Callow (Prestel, 2019, ) American Gardens; with Monty Don (Prestel, 2020, ) Venetian Gardens; with Monty Don (BBC, 2022, ) Spanish Gardens; with Monty Don (BBC, 2024, ) British Gardens; with Monty Don (BBC, 2026, )

Personal life Lord Drogheda has been married to: Eliza Winn Lloyd (died 7 May 2008). She was the only daughter of Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr. and his first wife, the former Rachel Lambert; a stepdaughter of American banker and art collector Paul Mellon; and a great-granddaughter of Jordan Wheat Lambert, co-inventor of Listerine mouthwash. They married on 15 May 1968 and divorced in 1972. Caroline Kennedy was a flower girl at the couple's wedding, and John F. Kennedy Jr. was a page.

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