Edward Moore,

D.D. A Doctor of Divinity (DD or DDiv; ) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity (i.e., Christian theology and ministry or other theologies. The term is more common in the English-speaking world than elsewhere. In the United Kin ...

(1714–1788) was an Irish

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priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

. Moore was born at Mooresfort in

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, son of Edward Moore senior, and was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. He had at least one sister Elizabeth, who married as his second wife

John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle of Mountnorth, in the County of Cork (1702 – 15 July 1781), was an Irish peer in the Peerage of Ireland and a politician. The eldest son of Nicholas Lysaght and Grace, daughter of Colonel Thomas Holmes of Kilma ...

and had issue. He was

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from 1782 until 1788. He married Ellen Dobson and had at least three daughters: Ellen, who married William Pennefather of Darling Hill, Tipperary, MP for

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, Mary, who married William's cousin Thomas Pennefather of Marlow, and Dorothea (died 1814), who married Denis George,

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, and later one of the Barons of the

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.Ball p.356

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