Garret Moore

Colonel Garret Moore PC (I) (died c.1706), also recorded as Gerald Moore, was an Irish Royalist soldier, official and Jacobite politician.

Biography Early life Moore was the eldest son of Garret Moore, of Cloghan, County Offaly, while his mother's name is unknown. His year of birth is also unknown, but was likely around 1610. His paternal grandmother was Lady Mary Burke, daughter of Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde. In 1638, Moore was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in London to study law. He refused, however, to take the oaths of supremacy and allegiance required of Irish students in 1641 and was expelled. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of King's County the same year. He served in the Irish Jacobite army during the Williamite War in Ireland as the colonel of a free company.

Despite his Jacobitism, Moore does not appear to have suffered significantly as a result of the Williamite victory. He appears in the journal of the Irish House of Commons in 1695 and 1705 as prosecuting private bills. On 30 March 1705, he was one of the Catholics licensed to carry arms by the Irish Privy Council. Moore married Lady Margaret Burke, daughter of Richard Burke, 6th Earl of Clanricarde. Lady Margaret died in 1671, leaving one daughter. On Moore's death, likely in early 1706, his estates passed to a nephew.