Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda

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Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (born 1937). An accomplished photographer and artist known professionally as Derry Moore, with thirty-seven portraits in the NPG's collection. Moore is a leading photographer of architectural interiors, an illustrator of books, and has had portraits published in Country Life and Vogue. He inherited the title of Earl of Drogheda from Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda (1910-1989). The heir apparent to the title is his son Benjamin Garrett Henderson Moore, Viscount Moore (born 1983).

He has been married twice. His first wife, whom he married in 1967 and divorced soon after, was Eliza Lloyd. She was the steppdaughter of the American millionaire Paul Mellon and a granddaughter of mouthwash and shaving-razor magnate Gerald B. Lambert. They had no children, and she did not remarry.

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Earl of Drogheda

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