Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell (20 May 1792 – 10 October 1883), styled Lord Kilworth until 1822, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and politician who spent much of his life in what is now Canada.

Background and education

Lord Kilworth was born in

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, the son of

Stephen Moore, 2nd Earl Mount Cashell Stephen Moore, 2nd Earl Mount Cashell (19 March 1770 – 27 October 1822), styled Lord Kilworth between 1781 and 1790, was an Anglo-Irish politician. Moore was the eldest son of Stephen Moore, 1st Earl Mount Cashell, and Lady Helena Rawdon, daugh ...

and

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, daughter of

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. His mother's views on the education and treatment of children had been formed by her time as a pupil of

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. He was a graduate of

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Career

Lord Mount Cashell spent some time in Switzerland and married in 1819 Anna Marie Wyse/Wyss (c. 1793-1876) of

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. The couple then lived for a time in Frankfurt, Germany and had four daughters and three sons. In 1826 he was elected an

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and was able to take a seat in the

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. In 1833 the family left Europe for

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and settled in Lobo Township in the London District,

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(later Lobo Township in

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). Using the services of an agent Lord Mount Cashell purchased from the estate of the late Captain John Matthews, an Upper Canadian politician and former officer in the Royal Artillery who had come to British North America in the retinue of Governor-General

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. Settling on the former Matthews' estate Mount Cashell built – by Upper Canadian standards – a large home for his family and servants. During his time in Upper Canada (later Canada West and then Ontario) he sometimes ran foul of local authorities by asserting his rights as an elected representative peer in the Irish Peerage. Local folklore indicates that Mount Cashell had a propensity to use a pistol to shoot at flies who infiltrated his home. On October 1, 1865 Mount Cashell's lawyer, H.C.R. Becher, based at nearby

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, confided in his diary that "The Earl of Mountcashell dines with me often. He is a troublesome client, rather amusing as a guest at first, but in the main a bore." Various members of the family travelled between Britain and the lands in British North America and Mount Cashell's daughter-in-law, Jane Dance, wife of the Hon. George F. Moore died at the Lobo property in 1868 and was buried in a local cemetery. In 1847 he was elected a

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. By 1870 the family had wound up its dealings in the country and returned to Britain. Mount Cashell was said, when between 85 and 90, to have been engaged to marry a Miss Kennedy. He died ín

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, aged 91 in October 1883 and was succeeded by his son Stephen Moore, 4th Earl Mount Cashell (1825–1889) who was in turn succeeded by his younger brother Charles William Moore, 5th Earl Mount Cashell (1826–1898).

References

*Lobo Township Heritage Group. ''The Heritage of Lobo, 1820-1990 ''(Ilderton, Ontario: Lobo Township Heritage Group, 1990), 275–279. *''

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