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Robert Moore

1688 – 1728

Irish politician

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About Robert Moore

Lived 1688 – 1728 (aged 39–40).

The Honourable Robert Moore (baptised 11 April 1688 – 3 July 1728) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

Early life Moore was baptised on 11 April 1688 at St Margaret's, Westminster. He was a younger son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda and Mary Cole (d. 1726). Among his siblings were elder brother, Charles Moore, Viscount Moore, and sisters, Lady Alice Moore (wife of Sir Gustavus Hume, 3rd Baronet) and Lady Elizabeth Moore (wife of George Rochfort, MP for County Westmeath).

Personal life On 16 October 1725, Moore married, as her third husband, Lady Anne Roper ( Lennard), Baroness Teynham and suo jure Baroness Dacre at St. James, Westminster. Lady Anne was the eldest surviving daughter and heiress of Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex and Lady Anne FitzRoy (herself the eldest illegitimate daughter of King Charles II and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland). Lady Anne was the widow of Richard Barrett-Lennard and Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham. Before his death, they had one son, Henry.

Moore died on 3 July 1728 at Epsom, Surrey. His widow died 26 June 1755 and was buried at St Anne Westminster.

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Irish politician

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Robert Moore was born in 1688.

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Robert Moore died on 2 July 1728.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Robert Moore

· Wikidata: Q125343317

· DBpedia: Robert Moore (Irish politician)

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