Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet explained

Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet (c. 1685 – 10 February 1742)^[1] was an Irish politician and baronet.

He was the son of Paul Gore, himself son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, and his wife Anne Gore, daughter of Sir John Gore.^[2] Gore succeeded his grandfather as baronet in 1697.^[3] He was Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons. Gore represented Ballynakill from 1703 to 1713 and then for Donegal Borough until 1715. Subsequently, he sat for County Mayo until 1741.^[4]

Gore was married to Elizabeth Annesley, daughter of Maurice Annesley. They had eight children, four daughters and four sons.^[5] Gore was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Arthur, who later was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as 1st Earl of Arran.^[1] Of his daughters, Anne married John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont and Elizabeth married James Cuffe (died 1762).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leigh Rayment – Baronetage . https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224856/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsG2.htm . 1 May 2008 . usurped . 29 March 2009 .
2. Book: Debrett, John . G. Woodfall . 19th . Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . I . 1831 . London . 741 .
3. Book: Lodge, Edmund . The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage . Saunder and Otley . 6th . London . 1838 . 23 .
4. Web site: Leigh Rayment – Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm . 7 June 2008 . usurped . 29 March 2009 .
5. Book: Burke, John . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire . Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley . London . I . 4th . 1832 . 44 .