William Moore (Clogher MP)

For other people named William Moore, see William Moore (disambiguation).

Hon. William Moore (11 December 1743[1] – 21 November 1810)[2] was an Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1765 to 1776 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Clogher in County Tyrone, Clonmel in County Tipperary from 1781 to 1792, and for St Johnstown in County Longford from 1798 until his resignation in January 1800 by the procedural device of accepting the office of Escheator of Munster.[3]

He was the third son of Stephen Moore, 1st Viscount Mount Cashell, by his second wife, and younger half-brother of Stephen Moore, 1st Earl Mount Cashell.[1]

  1. ^ a b The Peerage of Ireland: A Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom Etc. Almon. 1768. p. 45. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  2. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1868. p. 788. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  3. ^ Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore, Somerset Richard (1887). Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885. Alex. Thom & Company. p. 292. Retrieved 28 January 2019.