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Charles Moore, 2nd Marquess of Drogheda

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257:. His treatment involved a regimen of fresh air and manual labour. Whether the treatment had any success in Lord Drogheda's case is unclear, but certainly, there was no significant recovery of his mental faculties, as there had been for the King; Drogheda remained at Greatford until his death in 1837. He was unmarried and his titles passed to his nephew 268:, who committed suicide in 1822, was Lord Drogheda's first cousin and the increasingly strange behaviour which culminated in his death was thought by some to be due to a hereditary mental illness inherited from the Seymour Conway family, to which his mother, as well as Drogheda's, belonged. 585: 244:
When he was about the age of twenty he began to show signs of mental illness, which may have been hereditary. He was placed in the care of Dr Francis Willis at Greatford Hall. Willis had won renown in 1789 for curing King
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in 1790, but unseated the following year on foot of a petition that he was disqualified by reason of insanity. Despite this, he was given the rank of
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The cause of his mental illness is unclear, but it is significant that his mother's family had a history of eccentricity and mental instability.
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when he was about twenty, and spent the rest of his life at the private asylum at
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Queen's County constituencies
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in 1793. Lord Moore's father was colonel of the regiment.
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in giving the 2nd Marquess's name as Edward, not Charles.
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Member of Parliament
Queen's County
Sir John Parnell, Bt
John Warburton
Sir John Parnell, Bt
Sir John Parnell, Bt
John Warburton
Greatford
Lincolnshire
Francis Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford
Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda
insane
Greatford
Lincolnshire
Francis Willis
Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda
Francis Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford
Irish House of Commons
Queen's County
captain-lieutenant
Royal Irish Artillery
George III
insanity
porphyria
Henry Moore, 3rd Marquess of Drogheda
Lord Castlereagh
Vicary Gibbs
The Complete Peerage
George Edward Cokayne

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