Rawdon, John, Sir, 1720-1793

LC control no.	no2015059734
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Rawdon, John, Sir, 1720-1793 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Moira, Lord, 1720-1793 Moira, John Rawdon, Earl of, 1720-1793
Found in	Monthly Visitor (London, England), April 1798: biographical sketch (Earl Moira) Wikipedia website, viewed May 5, 2015: John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira page (John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira (17 March 1720 - 20 June 1793), known as Sir John Rawdon, Bt, between 1724 and 1750 and as The Lord Rawdon between 1750 and 1762, was an Irish peer. 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. 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)