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Brabazon of Tara, Baron (UK, 1942)

Creation: let. pat. 27 Apr 1942

Family name: Moore-Brabazon

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Gules on a Bend Or three Martlets Sable (Brabazon);  2nd and 3rd, Azure on a Chief per pale Argent and Or three Mullets Gules (Moore)

Crests:

1st:  a Falcon rising belled Or (Brabazon);  2nd:  issuant from a Coronet composed of eight Mullets set upon a Rim Or a Moor's Head and Shoulders proper wreathed about the temples Argent and Azure (Moore)

Supporters:

On either side a Gull volant over water supporting the Shield with its Beak all proper

Motto:

Vota Vita Mea (My life is vowed)

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John Theodore Cuthbert [Moore-Brabazon], 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara GBE MC PC

2nd son of Lt Col John Arthur Henry Moore later Moore-Brabazon, of Tara House, co. Meath, and of Tally Allen, co. Louth, by his wife Emma Sophia Richards, dau. of Alfred Richards, of Tewkesbury Lodge, Forest Hill, co. Kent

born

8 Feb 1884

mar.

27 Nov 1906 Hilda Mary Krabbé (d. 23 Jul 1977), only dau. of Charles Henry Krabbé, of Colina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

died

17 May 1964

created

27 Apr 1942 Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent

suc. by

son

note

Minister of Transport 1940-41;  Minister of Aircraft Production 1941-42

Derek Charles [Moore-Brabazon], 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara CBE

born

24 Dec 1910

mar.

1 Sep 1939 Henrietta Mary Krabbé (widow of Ivor Krabbé;  d. 1985), dau. of Sir Alfred Rowland Clegg, of Llanidan Hall, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey

died

11 Dec 1974

suc. by

son

Ivon Anthony [Moore-Brabazon], 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara DL

born

20 Dec 1946

mar.

8 Sep 1979 Harriet Frances Hamilton, only dau .of Mervyn Peter de Courcy Hamilton, of Harare, Zimbabwe

children

1. Hon Benjamin Ralph Moore-Brabazon (b. 15 Mar 1983)

1. Hon Annabel Moore-Brabazon (b. 1985)

note

Minister for Aviation and Shipping 1986-89;  Minister of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1989-90;  Minister of State for Transport 1990-92; elected to the House of Lords 1999

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Title:

3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent

(United Kingdom, let. pat. 27 Apr 1942)

Address:

c/o House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW

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