| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable | ||||||||||
| The Lord Moynihan | |||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Antony Patrick Andrew Cairne Berkeley Moynihan | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1936 | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Manila, Philippines | ||||||||||
| Death Cause: | Heart attack | ||||||||||
| Baron Moynihan | |||||||||||
| Tenure: | 1965–1991 | ||||||||||
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| Other Titles: | Baronet of Carr Manor | ||||||||||
| Nationality: | British | ||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Patrick Moynihan | ||||||||||
| Successor: | Colin Moynihan | ||||||||||
| Parents: | Patrick Moynihan Irene Helen Candy | ||||||||||
Antony Patrick Andrew Cairne Berkeley Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan, 3rd Baronet of Carr Manor (2 February 1936 – 24 November 1991) was a British hereditary peer.[1] He lived a playboy lifestyle and married five times. After multiple charges of fraud in 1970, he left the UK for good. Settling in the Philippines, he was allegedly involved in procuring and drug trafficking.
Moynihan was born on 2 February 1936 to Patrick Moynihan and his wife Irene Helen Candy. Patrick Moynihan later that year became the 2nd Baron Moynihan. Patrick's father Berkeley Moynihan had been made a peer for his services to medicine in 1929. His mother was the daughter of Cairnes Candy, an Englishman who had immigrated to Western Australia.[2] [3] After attending Stowe School, Moynihan served in the Coldstream Guards.
In 1955 Moynihan married Ann Herbert, an actress and model.[4] After a domestic dispute and an affair on Moynihan's part, he left for Australia where he intended working on his uncle's sheep farm. In Sydney he met Shirin Berry, a Malaysian who danced under the name Princess Amina. Returning to England in 1957[5] he reconciled with Ann, however this was short-lived. He married Shirin in 1958 after converting to Islam.[6] He was soon on the move again, leaving for Ibiza with his wife. After the collapse of his nightclub business he returned to England.
In Tokyo in 1960 he challenged Al Ricketts, an American journalist, to a duel after he criticised Shirin's dancing. Moynihan defeated Rickets in the unusual duel that involved the two combatants attacking each other with their buttocks.[7] [8] In 1961 he and his wife converted to the Baháʼí Faith. At this time, Moynihan worked as a driver for Peter Rachman. After the death of his father in 1965 he became the 3rd Baron Moynihan, taking a seat in the House of Lords. In the Lords he took the Liberal Whip.
In 1970, after facing a series of fraud charges, he left England for Spain, later moving to the Philippines.[9] In the Philippines, he operated a brothel and was linked to the drug trade, but had some level of protection due to his close ties with President Ferdinand Marcos.[10] In 1980 he was named by the Woodward Royal Commission in Australia as an associate of a prominent Australian drug trafficking group operating between Manila and Sydney.[11]
During the late 1980s Moynihan worked as an informant for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, for which he was given immunity from prosecution. His testimony led to the conviction of Howard Marks, a Welsh drug smuggler.[12] [13] "He's a first-class bastard", Marks said.[3]
Moynihan was married four times (his putative fifth marriage was bigamous and thus void ab initio) and had five children.[14]
Firstly, Moynihan married Ann Herbert on 25 May 1955. They were divorced in 1958 and had no children.
Secondly, he married Shirin Roshan Berry Quereshi in 1958. They were divorced in 1967, having had one daughter:
Thirdly, he married Luthgarda Maria Beltran del Rosa Fernandez in May 1968. They were divorced in 1980, having had three daughters:
Fourthly, he married Editha Eduarda in February 1981. In 1990, they went through a divorce declared invalid by the British Courts 31 July 1996.[16] They had no children, although Andrew Antony Joseph Patrick Berkeley Moynihan (born 6 March 1989) was believed to be Moynihan's son until DNA testing proved he was not following a dispute about who would inherit the barony.
Finally, he bigamously married Jinna Mabinta on 2 December 1984. They had one son:
In September, 2016, his daughter Aurora was killed in the Philippines.[18] At the time of her death the Philippines was undergoing an intensive and controversial crackdown on drug dealers.
On the death of the 3rd Baron in 1991 the Barony was declared dormant. In 1997 the House of Lords declared that the 3rd Baron's half-brother Colin was the rightful heir to the barony and baronetcy, finding against two other claimants.[19] [20] [21]
| Escutcheon: | Azure a chevron between in chief three mullets Argent and in base a rose also Argent barbed and seeded Proper. |
| Crest: | A demi-knights in armour affrontee resting the sinister hand on the hip Proper and supporting with the dexter hand a spear also Proper flowing therefrom a forked pennon Argent charged with a Maltese Cross Sable. |
| Supporters: | On either side an owl Argent gorged with a baron's coronet Or. |
| Motto: | Spiandact Tapeir Neill (Sunshine After Rain)[22] |