St George Gore-St George
Sir St George Gore-St George, 5th Baronet (25 June 1722 – 25 September 1746)[1] was an Anglo-Irish politician and baronet.
Biography[edit]
Born St George Gore, he was oldest son of Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet and his second wife Elizabeth Ashe, daughter of St George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher.[2] In 1733, he succeeded his father as baronet.[2] He assumed the additional surname of St George to inherit the estates of his maternal grandfather, whose only son had died without issue in 1721.[2] Gore-St George represented County Donegal in the Irish House of Commons from 1741 until his death in 1746.[3] He was also appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1746.
Marriage and succession[edit]
On 22 September 1743, he married Anne Burton, only daughter of Francis Burton and sister of Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham.[4] Gore-St George died without children, aged only 24, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Ralph.[4] He was buried at Castletown, County Kildare.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c 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. p. 527.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c 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. p. 285.
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