Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran
Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, KP, PC (Ire), styled The Honourable Arthur Gore from 1758 to 1762 and Viscount Sudley from 1762 to 1773, was an Irish peer and politician.
Early life
Arran was the eldest son of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, and Jane Saunders. His younger brothers were Hon. Richard Gore, MP and Hon. Paul Gore, who married Anne Leonard. His sisters were Lady Joanna Gore and Lady Elizabeth Gore.His paternal grandparents were Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet, and the former Elizabeth Annesley. His aunt, Anne Gore, was married to the 1st Earl of Altamont. His maternal grandfather was Richard Saunders.
Upon his grandfather's death, his father became the 3rd Gore Baronet of Newtown. After his father was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Saunders of Deeps in the County of Wexford, and Viscount Sudley of Castle Gore in the County of Mayo in 1758, he was styled The Honourable Arthur Gore. When his father was made the Earl of Arran in 1762, he assumed the courtesy title of Viscount Sudley for himself.
Career
He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Donegal Borough in 1759, a seat he held until 1761 and again from 1768 to 1774 and also represented County Wexford between 1761 and 1768. In 1773, he succeeded his father as second Earl of Arran and entered the Irish House of Lords. Arran was also appointed High Sheriff of County Wexford in 1757 and High Sheriff of Mayo in 1765.He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1771 and in 1783 he was invested as one of the original sixteen Knights of the Order of St Patrick.
Personal life
On 14 July 1760, Lord Arran married Hon. Catherine Annesley, only daughter of the 1st Viscount Glerawly and Lady Anne Beresford. They had six children:- Arthur Saunders Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, who married Mary Tyrrell, governess to Princess Charlotte of Wales and only surviving daughter and heiress of Sir John Tyrrell, 5th Baronet
- Lady Anne Jane Gore, who married Henry Hatton of Great Clonard in 1783, and after his death married, as his third wife, John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn in 1800
- Lady Elizabeth Araminta Gore, who married Henry Monck
- Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore, who married her cousin, John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery
- Colonel Hon. William John Gore, Master of the Horse to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who married Caroline Hales, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Hales, 4th Baronet
- Lady Jane Gore, who married Dudley Loftus of Killyon
- Very Rev. Hon. George Gore, who married Anne Burrowes, daughter of Robert Burrowes of Stradone, then married Sophia Ribton, daughter of Sir George Ribton, 2nd Baronet, in 1820, and married for the third time Maria Isaac, widow of Thomas Bunbury Isaac of Hollywood House, in 1823
- Lady Maria Louisa Gore, who married James Knox-Gore of Broadlands Park in 1800
- Lady Eleanor Gore, who married Hon. Frederick Cavendish, fourth son of Rt Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet and Sarah Bradshaw, 1st Baroness Waterpark, in 1801
- Hon. Saunders Gore, who died unmarried
- Hon. John Gore, who died unmarried
- Lady Cecilia Gore, who married, as his second wife, Sir George Buggin of Great Cumberland Place, London in 1815, then married, in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, as his second wife, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of King George III, in 1831; she later became Duchess of Inverness
- Lady Isabella Gore, who in 1816 married the Rev. Hon. Charles Douglas, brother of the 17th Earl of Morton and second son of Hon. John Douglas and Lady Frances Lascelles
- General Hon. Sir Charles Stephen Gore, Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, who married Sarah Rachel Fraser, daughter of James Fraser of Nova Scotia, in 1824
- Captain Hon. Edward Gore, who married Mary Anne Douglas in 1822
- Lady Julia Gore, who married Robert Manners Lockwood in 1821