Baron Moynihan
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Baron Moynihan, of Leeds in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the surgeon Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, the son of the Victoria Cross recipient Andrew Moynihan. Berkley had already been created a Baronet, of Carr Manor, in 1922.
The titles became dormant on the death of his grandson, Anthony Moynihan, the Third Baron, in 1991. There followed a complex dispute between his two sons, born separately by his fourth and fifth wives. Anthony believed that the eldest boy, Andrew, was not his son, and favoured the younger, Daniel. However in 1997 the House of Lords ruled that while overwhelming genetic evidence showed that the suspicions about Andrew's parentage were justified, Anthony's marriage to Daniel's mother was bigamous, making the child illegitimate. They therefore decided in favour of Anthony's half-brother, the former Conservative Member of Parliament Colin Moynihan, making him the Fourth Baron.
[edit] Barons Moynihan (1929)
- Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan (1865-1936)
- Patrick Berkeley Moynihan, 2nd Baron Moynihan (1906-1965)
- Antony Patrick Andrew Caines Berkeley Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan (1930-1991) (dormant 1991)
- Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan (b. 1955) (claim proved 1997)
[edit] References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
