Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda

Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda KG, KBE (23 April 1910 – 24 December 1989),[1] styled Viscount Moore until 1957, was a British peer.

1968 photograph, by Godfrey Argent.
Coat of Arms of Charles, 11th Earl of Drogheda - Azure on a chief indented or three mullets pierced gules.

Lord Drogheda was the eldest son of The 10th Earl of Drogheda and his first wife, Kathleen Pelham Burn, and was educated at Eton. In 1940, he became a captain in the Territorial Army division of the Royal Artillery. In 1946, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

In 1946, he became Managing Director of The Financial Times and inherited his father's earldom in 1957. In 1964, he was promoted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and on his retirement in 1972, was appointed a Knight of the Garter (KG). From 1974, he was President of the Institute of Directors and from 1983, was Independent National Director of Times Newspapers, holding both posts up until his death.

On 16 May 1935,[2] at City Hall in New York City, Drogheda, then Viscount Moore, married Joan Eleanor Carr (1902–1989, née Joan Eleanor M. Birkbeck), a former wife of Dawson R. Miller and a former wife of violinist Isek D. Melsak (known professionally as Daniel Melsa). A concert pianist, she was the only child of Lilian Henrietta Birkbeck (née White, formerly Mrs. James Braidwood Birkbeck) and William Henry Carr, aka William Henry Carr-Birkbeck, who were unmarried. A newspaper report noted that on the marriage application Lord Moore's fiancée stated that her two prior marriages had ended in 1929 and 1930, that she was employed as an "artiste", and that "she could not remember the name of her father."[3]

The Droghedas had one child, Henry "Derry" Dermot Ponsonby (born 1937), a photographer, who inherited the earldom upon his father's death in 1989.

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  1. Charles Moore 11th Earl of DroghedaThe Peerage.com Retrieved December 8, 2016
  2. "Lord Moore Weds Mrs. Joan E. Carr; Heir to Earl of Drogheda and British Radio Performer Are Married Here", The New York Times, 17 May 1935, page 44
  3. "Lord Moore Weds Mrs. Joan E. Carr; Heir to Earl of Drogheda and British Radio Performer Are Married Here", The New York Times, 17 May 1935, page 44
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore		 Earl of Drogheda
1957–1989		 Succeeded by
Henry Dermot Ponsonby "Derry" Moore
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore		 Baron Moore
1957–1989		 Succeeded by
Henry Dermot Ponsonby "Derry" Moore
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