Background
Rawdon was the only son of Sir John Rawdon, 3rd Baronet and Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet. Rawdon succeeded his father in the baronetcy in February 1724, aged three.
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John Rawdon
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Career
In 1750 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Rawdon, of Moira in the County of Down. In 1761 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Moira in the Irish peerage. Lord Moira married, firstly, Helena Perceval, daughter of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont and Lady Catherine Parker, on 10 November 1741.
They had two children:
Lady Helena Rawdon, married Stephen Moore, 1st Earl Mountcashell and had issue.
Lady Catherine Rawdon, married Joseph Henry. They had no children.
They had five children:
Lady Selina Frances Rawdon (d 1827), married George Forbes, 6th Earl of Granard and had issue. Lady Charlotte Adelaide Constantia Rawdon (d 1834), married Hamilton Fitzgerald.
Lady Anne Elizabeth Rawdon (1753–1813), married Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury without issue.
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826)
Honorary John Theophilus Rawdon (1756–1808)
The Countess of Moira died in April 1808.
Membership
Royal Society.
