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Mountcashell, Earl (I, 1781 - 1915)

Creation: let.pat. 5 Jan 1781

Extinct: 1 Apr 1915

Family name: Moore

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Arms:

Sable a Swan Argent membered and beaked Or a Bordure engrailed of the last

Crest:

A Goshawk wings addorsed preying on a Coney all proper

Supporters:

Dexter: A Leopard;  Sinister:  A Rhinoceros, both proper collared and chained Or

Motto:

 Vis Unita Fortior

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Stephen [Moore], 2nd Viscount Mountcashell later 1st Earl Mountcashell, PC

2nd but 1st surv. son and heir of Stephen [Moore], 1st Viscount Mountcashell, by his wife Alicia Colvill, sister and hrss. of Robert Colvill, and dau. of Hugh Colvill, son and hr. of Rt Hon Sir Robert Colvill, of Newtown, co. Down

born

25 Jul 1730

mar.

3 Jun 1769 Lady Helena Rawdon (b. 27 Mar 1744; d. 3 Jun 1792), 2nd dau. of John [Rawdon], 1st Earl of Moira, by his first wife Lady Helena Perceval, 2nd dau. of John [Perceval], 1st Earl of Egmont

children

1. Hon Stephen Moore, later 2nd Earl of Mountcashell

2. Hon John Moore (b. 19 Jun 1772)

3. Hon William Moore (b. 7 Apr 1775)

1. Lady Helena Moore (b. 20 May 1773; d. 9 Dec 1847), mar. 6 May 1794 George [King], 3rd Earl of Kingston, and had issue

died

14 May 1790

created

5 Jan 1781 Earl Mountcashell

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament for Lismore 1761-66; suc. his father as 2nd Viscount Mountcashell 26 Feb 1766; Privy Councillor [I] 1785

Stephen [Moore], 2nd Earl Mountcashell

born

19 Mar 1770

mar.

12 Sep 1791 Lady Margaret Jane King (b. 1733; mar. (2) George William Tighe; d. 29 Jan 1835; bur. in the Protestant Cemetery at Leghorn, Italy), 1st dau. of Robert [King], 2nd Earl of Kingston, by his wife Caroline FitzGerald, only dau. and hrss. of Richard FitzGerald, of Mount Ophaly, co. Kildare

children

1. Hon Stephen Moore, later 3rd Earl Mountcashell

2. Lt Col Hon Robert Moore (b. 11 Jul 1793; d. 4 Nov 1856)

3. Rev Hon Edward George Moore, Canon of Windsor, Rector of West Ilsley, co. Berkshire (b. 18 Aug 1798; d. 8 Feb 1876), mar. 27 Mar 1827 Hon Anne Matilda Trefusis, dau. of Robert George William [Trefusis], 17th Baron Clinton, by his wife Albertina Marianna Gaulis, dau. of John Abraham Rodolph Gaulis, of Lausanne, Switzerland, and had issue:

1a. Edward George Augustus Harcourt Moore, later 6th Earl Mountcashell

2a. Charles Robert Moore (b. 11 Aug 1831; dvp. 2 Feb 1853)

1a. Lady Louisa Fanny Matilda Moore, granted the style and precedence of the daughter of an Earl by Royal Warrant 1899 (d. 11 Aug 1902)

2a. Lady Mary Augusta Georgiana Moore. granted the style and precedence of the daughter of an Earl by Royal Warrant 1899 (d. 23 Apr 1903), mar. 24 Nov 1864 Algernon Gilliat, of Fern Hill, co. Berkshire (b. 1837; d. 24 Jan 1924), 2nd son of John Kirton Gilliat, of Fern Hill, co. Berkshire, by his wife Mary Anne Saunders, dau. of Robert Saunders, of Remenham lodge, co. Berkshire, and had issue

4. Hon Richard Francis Moore, HEICS (b. 26 Jul 1802; d. 15 Nov 1873)

1. Lady Helena Eleanor Moore (d. 23 Sep 1859), mar. 9 Feb 1913 Sir Richard Robinson, Bt., of Rokeby Hall

2. Lady Jane Eliza Moore (d. 5 Sep 1847), mar. 17 Jun 1819 Rt Hon William Yates Peel MP (b. 3 Aug 1789; d. 1 Jun 1858), 2nd son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt., by his first wife Ellen Yates, dau. of William Yates, of Spring Side, Bury, co. Lancaster, and had issue

3. Lady Elizabeth Anne Moore (b. c. 1806; d. 6 Sep 1892)

died

27 Oct 1822

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament for Clonmel 1790; a Representative Peer (Tory) for Ireland 1815-22

Stephen [Moore], 3rd Earl Mountcashell

born

20 Aug 1792

mar.

31 May 1819 Anna Maria Wyss (b. c. 1792; d. 4 Jul 1876), dau. of Samuel Wyss, of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland

children

1. Hon Stephen Moore, later 4th Earl Mountcashell

2. Hon Charles William Moore later Moore-Smyth later More, later 5th Earl Mountcashell

3. Hon George Francis Moore (b. 19 Apr 1832; dsp. 24 Jan 1881), mar. 15 Aug 1865 Jane Dance (d. 13 Jul 1868), dau. of George Mainwaring Dance

1. Lady Jane Moore (d. 8 Aug 1907)

2. Lady Helena Adelaide Moore, mar. 15 Nov 1849 Rev Edward Henry Newenham, of Coolmore, co. Cork (b. 16 Aug 1817; d. 25 Oct 1892), 2nd but 1st surv. son and heir of Robert Newenham, of Sandford, co. Dublin, by his wife Jane Hoare, dau. of Edward Hoare, of Factory Hill, co. Cork, and had issue

3. Lady Anna Maria Isabella Moore, mar. (1) 27 Jul 1848 R P H Jodrell (dsp. 1855), and (2) 30 Apr 1856 J H Freme, of Wrentnall House, co. Shropshire

4. Lady Catherine Louisa Moore (d. 18 May 1886), mar. 10 Aug 1858 Richard Spread Morgan, of Bridestown, co. Cork, and had issue

died

10 Oct 1883

suc. by

son

note

a Representative Peer (Tory) for Ireland 1826-83; FRS 1847

Stephen [Moore], 4th Earl Mountcashell

born

11 Mar 1825

died

9 Nov 1889 (bur. at Kilworth, co. Cork)

suc. by

brother

note

Lieut, Rifle Brigade; High Sheriff of co. Cork 1849; for many years he was an inmate of the Brislington Lunatic Asylum, near Bristol

Charles William [Moore later Moore-Smyth later More], 5th Earl Mountcashell

born

17 Oct 1826

mar. (1)

18 Jan 1848 Charlotte Mary Smyth (d. 17 Jan 1892), only child of Richard Smyth, of Ballynatray, co. Waterford, by his wife Harriet St Leger, dau. of Hayes [St Leger], 2nd Viscount Doneraille

children by first wife

1. Richard Charles Moore-Smyth (b. 26 Sep 1859; dvp. 3 Jan 1888), mar. Helen Stirling Makellar, 2nd dau. of Rev William Makellar, of 8 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, and had issue:

1a. Claude Stephen William Richard Moore-Smyth, styled Lord Kilworth (b. 19 Dec 1887; d. an infant 1 Oct 1890)

1. Lady Harriette Gertrude Isabella Moore, inherited the Ballynatray estates, mar. 17 Oct 1872 Col J H Graham Holroyd later Smyth, and had issue

2. Helena Anna Maria Moore (dvp. 6 Nov 1876)

3. Lady Charlotte Adelaide Louisa Riversdale Moore, mar. 27 Aug 1898 Brooke Wellington Brasier

mar. (2)

19 Oct 1893 Florence Cornelius (d. 30 Jan 1927), yst. dau. of Henry Cornelius, of Ross-na-Clonagh, Queen's County

died

s.p.m.s. 20 Feb 1898 (bur. at Kilworth, co. Cork)

suc. by

cousin

note

took the additional name of Smyth by Royal Licence 1858; High Sheriff of co. Waterford 1862; took the name of More 1889

Edward George Augustus Harcourt [Moore], 6th Earl Mountcashell

born

27 Nov 1829

died

1 Apr 1915 (bur. in Paddington Cemetery, London)

note

barrister, Lincoln's Inn 1854

On the death of the 6th Earl Mountcashell the Earldom of Mountcashell became extinct.

 First written 20 Apr 2006

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