Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet

Sir

Henry William Gore-Booth

5th Baronet
Sir Henry Gore-Booth
Born(1843-07-01)1 July 1843
Lissadell House, County Sligo, Ireland
Died13 January 1900(1900-01-13) (aged 56)
St. Moritz, Switzerland
Spouse
Georgina May Hill
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(m. 1867)​
Issue
FatherSir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet
OccupationArctic explorer

Sir Henry William Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet (1 July 1843 – 13 January 1900), was an Anglo-Irish Arctic explorer, landowner and landlord.[1][2]

Early life and education

Gore-Booth was born on 1 July 1843 at Lissadell House, County Sligo to Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet, an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner, and Caroline Susan Gore-Booth (née Goold).[1] One of five siblings, Gore-Booth's older brother Robert drowned in 1861 whilst the two were boating in Drumcliff Bay.[1][3] Gore-Booth was educated at Eton College.[1]

Career

Following the death of his father in 1876, Gore-Booth became the 5th Baronet of Artarman and took over the running of the family estate.[1] A member of the Anglo-Irish ruling-class, Gore-Booth was appointed the High Sheriff of Sligo during 1872[a] and also as the served as the deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for Sligo.[1][4] A partner in Gleniff Mine, which employed many of his tenants, Gore-Booth also served as the chairman of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway and was the President of the Sligo Agricultural Society.[1][5]

Gore-Booth reportedly held the reputation as a popular and benevolent landlord, and by 1879 had reduced most of his rents to the Griffith's Valuation figure.[1] During the Irish Famine of 1879, Gore-Booth reinstated the Carney and Drumcliffe Relief Committees and provided free food donations to his tenants.[4][5]

Arctic exploration

Between 1864 and 1866, Gore-Booth accompanied Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh on three sailing, fishing and shooting trips to Norway.[1] In 1879, Gore-Booth accompanied Lars Jorgensen and Albert Hastings Markham on a surveying expedition around the Novaya Zemlya archipelago on the Norwegian schooner Isbjörn.[1][6] Reaching their highest latitude of 78° 24’ N south of Franz Josef Land, the expedition passed through the Matochkin Shar to the Kara Sea.[1] The expedition surveyed the coast, the drift of ice flow and collected natural history specimens as well as participating in hunting and fishing.[1]

In 1882, Gore-Booth participated in the search party and rescue of fellow Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith and his crew.[1][7] Gore-Booth set sail in early June for Novaya Zemlya on his yacht Kara, which he had found under construction in Wivenhoe and had lanking doubled and the bows reinforced with iron.[7] On 2 July 1886, Gore-Booth was awarded a Master certificate for Kara by the Board of Trade.[1][8] Much of Gore-Booth's Arctic memorabilia is on display in The Billiard Room of Lissadell House.[9]

Sir Henry was also a prolific writer on a variety of topics including Arctic exploration, yachting, whaling, polar bear hunting and shark fishing.

Personal life

In 1867, Gore-Booth married Georgina Mary Gore-Booth (née Hill), the founder of the Lissadell School of needlework and daughter of Colonel Charles Hill of Tickhill Castle.[1][2][10][4] The couple had five children, including the republican and labour activist Constance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth, a poet and suffragist.[1][11][12][5] Gore-Booth was the grandfather of the diplomat Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth.[1][13]

On 13 January 1900, Gore-Booth died from influenza whilst holidaying in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[1][14] Gore-Booth was buried at the churchyard of Lissadell Church, County Sligo.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Also cited as 1871.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Nugent, Frank (October 2009). "Booth, Sir Henry William Gore-". Dictionary of Irish Biography (online ed.). Royal Irish Academy. doi:10.3318/dib.10.3318/dib.000785.v1. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  2. 1 2 Pašeta, S. (1 September 2017) [23 September 2004]. "Markievicz [née Gore-Booth], Constance Georgine, Countess Markievicz in the Polish nobility (1868–1927), Irish republican and first woman elected to parliament". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37472. Retrieved 25 July 2026. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ Tiernan, Sonja (2026). "Introducing the Gore-Booth Family". Eva Gore-Booth: Irish Radical Poet, Rebel and Reformer (Anniversary ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526196958. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Tiernan, Sonja (2026). "Life in the big house:childhood and Lissadell". Eva Gore-Booth: Irish Radical Poet, Rebel and Reformer (Anniversary ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526196958. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Malcomson, A.P.W.; Goodall, Michael; Scarth, Stephen (29 September 1997). "The Lissadell Papers (D/4131)". Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Belfast. Archived from the original on 13 April 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
  6. ↑ Capelotti, P.J. (2013). "Expedition Four: Franz Josef Land, 1880". Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press; Arctic Institute of North America. pp. 151–172. ISBN 978-1-55238-712-2. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  7. 1 2 Capelotti, P.J. (2013). "Expedition Five: Franz Josef Land, 1881–1882". Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press; Arctic Institute of North America. pp. 173–216. ISBN 978-1-55238-712-2. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "Certificate of Competency as Master. Sir Henry William Gore-Booth Bart". Master's Certificates. Greenwich, London: National Maritime Museum. 18 June 1886.
  9. ↑ "Lissadell is happy, positive and alive". Sligo Weekender. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
  10. ↑ Lewis, Gifford (23 September 2004). "Booth, Eva Selina Gore- (1870–1926), suffragist and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37473. Retrieved 25 July 2026. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ↑ Paseta, Senia (October 2009) [March 2021]. "Markievicz, Constance Georgine". Dictionary of Irish Biography (online ed.). Royal Irish Academy. doi:10.3318/dib.10.3318/dib.005452.v1. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  12. ↑ Clarke, Frances (October 2009). "Booth, Eva Selina Gore-". Dictionary of Irish Biography (online ed.). Royal Irish Academy. doi:10.3318/dib.10.3318/dib.000784.v1. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Harrow, Greenhill of (4 October 2012) [23 September 2004]. "Booth, Paul Henry Gore-, Baron Gore-Booth of Maltby (1909–1984), diplomat". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31162. Retrieved 25 July 2026. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ↑ "Obituary – Sir Henry Gore-Booth". The Times. No. 36043. London. 19 January 1900. p. 7.
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