GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES, 5th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON, eldest son of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG PC, Lord Lieut. Ireland and Governor-General of Canada, Gen. in the Army, and Lady Charlotte Gordon, eldest dau. of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT; grandson of Lord George Henry Lennox (qv); b. 3 Aug 1791; styled Earl of March 1806-19; adm. (Glover); left 1809; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. nob. 28 Oct 1809; BA 1813; Ensign, 8th Garrison Battalion 8 Jun 1809; Lieut., 13th Light Dragoons 21 Jun 1810; Capt., 92nd Foot 9 Jul 1812; 52nd Foot 8 Apr 1813; Brevet Maj., 15 Jun 1815; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 25 Jul 1816; half-pay 25 Jul 1816; ADC and Assistant Military Secretary to Duke of Wellington in Peninsular War 1810-4; wounded at Orthes; ADC to Prince of Orange at battle of Waterloo; MP Chichester 1812 – 28 Aug 1819; succ. father as 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 28 Aug 1819; as MP and peer a supporter of Tory governments to 1828, but opposed Catholic Emancipation and went into opposition after the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1829; KG 13 May 1829; offered and accepted Cabinet office in the incoming Whig government Nov 1830; Postmaster-General Nov 1830 – May 1834; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830; resigned office over Whig government’s Irish Church policy May 1834, moving to cross-benches in House of Lords; inherited Scottish estates of his cousin 5th Duke of Gordon 1836, assuming additional surname of Gordon before Lennox, 9 Aug 1836; became a vocal advocate of agricultural protection in the 1840s, strongly opposing Sir Robert Peel’s repeal of the corn laws; Col., Sussex Militia, from 4 Dec 1819; Extra ADC to William IV 9 May 1832; Lord Lieut. of Sussex from 19 Jun 1835; Chancellor, Marischall College, Aberdeen, from 1836; FRS 2 Apr 1840; President, Royal Agricultural Society, from 1845; DL Banffshire 1846; Steward, Jockey Club 1831; horses of his won the Oaks 1827, 1845, and the One Thousand Guineas 1845; Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, Sussex, from 1823; several details of his school life, including his fight with an overgrown bully, will be found in a Memoir of him published in 1862; Busby Trustee from 19 May 1827; m. 10 Apr 1817 Lady Caroline Paget, eldest dau. of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (qv); d. 21 Oct 1860. DNB.
GORDON-LENNOX, LORD FITZROY GEORGE CHARLES, second son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 11 Jun 1820; adm. 14 Feb 1834 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Ensign, 43rd Foot 15 Sep 1837; Lieut., 11 Sep 1840; 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 16 Feb 1841; 13th Light Dragoons 16 Feb 1841; lost in SS President on his passage home from from New York, USA 13 Mar 1841.
GORDON-LENNOX, LORD HENRY CHARLES GEORGE, third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 2 Nov 1821; adm. 1 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; precis writer, Foreign Office Feb 1845 – Feb 1846; MP (Cons) Chichester Feb 1846 – 85; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Mar – Dec 1852, Mar 1858 – Mar 1859; Secretary to the Admiralty Jul 1866 – Dec 1868; First Commissioner of Works Feb 1874 – Jul 1876, when he was compelled to resign owing to involvement in a financial scandal; Privy Councillor 7 Jul 1874; m. 25 Jan 1883 Amelia Susannah, widow of Richard Archibald Brooman, Neville House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and subsequently of John White, Arddarroch, Dumbartonshire, chemical manufacturer, and dau. of --- Smith; d. 28 Aug 1886. DNB.
GORDON-SHORT, CHARLES HENRY, eldest son of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv), and his second wife; b. 16 Apr 1848; adm. 30 May 1861; QS 1863; left Whitsun 1865; Ensign, 104th Foot 1 Aug 1868; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; Capt., 27 Jul 1879; Maj., Munster Fusiliers 29 Aug 1883; South Staffs. Regt. 4 Oct 1884; assumed additional surname of Gordon 18 Jun 1878; m. 16 Apr 1873 Sophia Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Edward Kent Parson MD, Southsea, Hampshire; d. 26 Jan 1885.
GORE, ---; b.; adm. 23 Jun 1659; a boarder; at school 1659-64 (Busby’s Account Book).
GORE, CHARLES, brother of Francis Gore (qv); bapt. All Hallows, Bread Street, London 5 (or 15) Nov 1711 (IGI); adm. (aged 7) Jun 1719; Min. Can. 1724; KS 1725; left 1728; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Mar 1728; BA 1731; MA 1734.
GORE, CHARLES, third son of Charles Gore, Horkstow, Lincs., director English Factory at Hamburg, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir James Dolliff, Kt; b. 5 Dec 1729; adm. Feb 1742/3 (Deane's); entered counting house of his uncle John Gore, banker, but left it on his marriage; devoted himself to shipbuilding and mechanical construction; High Sheriff, Lincolnshire 1757; living in Italy 1773-9, 1782-3; settled at Weimar, Germany, in 1791, and became a close friend of Goethe; member, Society of Dilettanti 1781; m. 1753 Mary Cocknal (or Cockerell ?), Scarborough, Yorks.; d. at Weimar 22 Jan 1807.
GORE, FRANCIS, elder surviving son of Francis Gore, All Hallows Bread Street, London, distiller, and Margaret Seabrooke (IGI); bapt. All Hallows, Bread Street, London 3 or 30 Mar 1710 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jun 1719; Min. Can. 1722; KS (Capt. ) 1723; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1727, matr. 8 Jun 1727, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1727 – void 1740; BA 1732; MA 1734/5; adm. Middle Temple 14 Oct 1727, called to bar 14 Jun 1734. [will Francis Gore, BA Oxford, proved PCC 14 May 1740]
GORE, HENRY, brother of Humphry Gore (qv); bapt. Fetcham, Surrey 10 Jan 1739 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Mar 1749/50 (Hutton's); left 1751. [will Henry Gore, Leatherhead, Surrey, proved PCC 26 Jul 1777]
GORE, HUMPHRY, son of Henry Gore, and Hannah (?Benson) (IGI); bapt. Fetcham, Surrey 4 Nov 1736 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jun 1749 (Hutton's); in school list 1752; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 2 Feb 1753; ret. 1756.