Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet

Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet (1567 – September 1629)[1] was an Anglo-Irish politician, soldier and baronet.

Born in London, he was the youngest son of Gerard Gore and his wife Helen Davenant, daughter of Ralph Davenant.[2][3][4] Gore had come to Ireland as a commander of a troop of horse and, in 1602, he was despatched to accompany the 1st Earl of Tyrconnell to a meeting with Queen Elizabeth I of England.[5] He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for Ballyshannon from 1613 until 1615.[6] On 2 February 1622, he was created a baronet, of Magherabegg, in the County Donegal.[1]

He married Isabella Wycliffe, daughter of Francis Wycliffe and niece of the 1st Earl of Strafford.[7] They had thirteen children, seven daughters and six sons.[8] Gore was buried at the Abbey Church of Donegal.[5] His eldest son Ralph succeeded to the baronetcy and was an ancestor of the Earl of Ross.[8] His son Arthur was himself created a baronet and was an ancestor of the Irish creation of the Earls of Arran, the Barons Harlech as well as the Irish Barons Annaly.[5] His fourth son Francis was the progenitor of the Gore-Booth Baronets.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  2. ↑ Burke, John (1836), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1, p.83 sv Gore, of Porkington
  3. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1882), The Baronetage and Knightage, vol 1, p.264 sv Gore.
  4. ↑ Cokayne, George E. (1900), Complete Baronetage, vol 1, p. 233, sv Gore
  5. 1 2 3 Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. pp. 23.
  6. ↑ Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. III. Dublin: James Moore. pp. 277–278.
  7. ↑ Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. pp. 669.
  8. 1 2 3 Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. pp. 527.


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