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]

References

1. 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.

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Samuel Lowe Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Bt	Member of Parliament for Clogher 1768–1776 With: Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Bt to 1768 John Staples from 1768–1776	Succeeded by Thomas St George Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Bt
Preceded by Stephen Moore I Guy Moore	Member of Parliament for Clonmel 1781–1798 With: Guy Moore to 1783 Stephen Moore (II) 1783–1790 Lord Kilworth 1790–1792 John Moore 1792–1798	Succeeded by Stephen Moore III Thomas Worth Newenham
Preceded by Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, Bt Francis Hardy	Member of Parliament for St Johnstown 1798–January 1800 With: Richard Lovell Edgeworth	Vacant until Parliament of Ireland abolished in January 1801