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Sir R. E. Moore, Bart.

Sir Richard Emanuel Moore, tenth Baronet, of Ross Carbery, county Cork, whose death is just announced, was born in 1810, the eldest son of Sir Emanuel Moore, ninth Baronet, and succeeded his father in 1849. He married, first, in 1839, Mary Anne, daughter of Mr. Arthur R. O'Connor; and secondly, in 1851, Margaret Matilda, daughter of Mr. Roger O'Connor, by the former of whom he leaves a son and successor, now Sir Thomas O'Connor Moore, Eleventh Baronet. Although the representative of a baronetcy conferred so far back as 1681, Sir Richard Emanuel Moore was a sad instance of the misery of a landless title. At one time he held the situation of third-class turnkey at Spike Island, and subsequently was reduced to the direst need. After vainly endeavouring to support himself by selling among the county families a book written by his wife, the poor Baronet opened a coal store in his son's name, but his want of capital defeated this his last venture.

Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.50