Charles Stephen Gore

General The Honourable Sir Charles Stephen Gore GCB KH
Sir Charles Stephen Gore
Personal details
Born	(1793-12-26)26 December 1793
Died	4 September 1869(1869-09-04) (aged 75) Chelsea, London, England
Spouse	Sarah Rachel Fraser ​ ​ (m. 1824)​
Children	5
Parent(s)	Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran Elizabeth Underwood
Relatives	Cecilia Underwood, Duchess of Inverness (sister) Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran (half-brother)
Military service
Years of service	1808-1869
Rank	General
Unit	91st Regiment of Foot 6th Regiment of Foot
Battles/wars	Peninsular War Siege of Badajoz Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo Lower Canada Rebellion Battle of Saint-Denis

General Sir Charles Stephen Gore GCB KH (26 December 1793 – 4 September 1869), also styled as the Honorable Charles Gore, was a British general.

Early life

Gore was a son of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran and, his third wife, the former Elizabeth Underwood.^[1] Among his siblings were Lady Cecilia Underwood (the second wife of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of King George III).^[2] From his father's first marriage to Catherine Annesley (the only daughter of the 1st Viscount Glerawly), his half-siblings included Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, Lady Anne Jane Gore (the third wife of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn), and Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore (wife of John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery).^[2]

His paternal grandparents were Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran (eldest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet) and the former Jane Worth (widow of William Worth of Rathfarnham). His maternal grandparents were Richard Underwood, Esq. and the former Christiana Goold (a daughter of Caleb Goold of Dublin).^[2]

Career

He entered the army in 1808. During the Peninsular War, he fought in the Siege of Badajoz and Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, both in 1812. He served in Canada and fought in the Battle of Saint-Denis during the Lower Canada Rebellion.

He was Colonel of the 91st (Argyllshire) Regiment of Foot from 1855 to 1861, transferring in 1861 to the 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, a position he held until his death in 1869.^[3][4]

Gore served under Lt. Gov. James Kempt while he was posted to Nova Scotia (1820-1828). He also served as Lieutenant Governor of Chelsea Hospital.^[2]

Personal life

Gore was married to Sarah Rachel Fraser (1803–1880) of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the eldest daughter of James Fraser, a member of the Council of Nova Scotia, and Rachel Otis (née DeWolf) Fraser (a daughter of Benjamin DeWolf).^[5] Together, they were the parents of five children, including:

• Adelaide Rachel Gore (d. 1893), who married Lt.-Gen. George Whitworth Talbot Rich, son of Sir George Bostock Rich (son of Sir Charles Bostock Rich, 1st Bt),^[6] in 1864.^[7]
• Maj. James Arthur Charles Gore (1826–1901), who married Catherine Louise Bazalgette, daughter of Col. John Bazalgette, in 1854.^[8]
• Eliza Amelia Gore (1829–1916), who married William Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll, a grandson of King William IV through his mistress, the famous comic actress Dora Bland (who was known as "Mrs. Jordan").^[9]
• Lt.-Col. Charles Clitheroe Gore (1839–1926), who married Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cator, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Cator and Lady Louisa Lumley-Savile (daughter of John Lumley-Savile, 7th Earl of Scarbrough), in 1875. After her death, he married Lavinia FitzRoy, daughter of Francis Charles FitzRoy, in 1882.^[10]
• Lt.-Col. Frederick Augustus Gore (1844–1931), who married Alice Schenley, daughter of Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley, in 1886.^[11]

Sir Charles died on 4 September 1869 in Chelsea, London. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery in London near the north end of the central colonnades.^[12] His widow died on 17 October 1880.^[2]

Legacy

The community of Gore, Nova Scotia is named after him when he served in Nova Scotia.

Gallery

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  Lady Gore (Sarah Rachel Fraser)
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  Gore's burial, Brompton Cemetery monument

References

1. Dod, Charles Roger Phipps (1862). The Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage, Of Great Britain And Ireland For ... Including All the Titled Classes. Whittaker And Company.
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5. Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton (1910). The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, Giving a Sketch of the French and Their Expulsion: And a History of the New England Planters who Came in Their Stead, with Many Genealogies, 1604-1910. Salem Press Company. pp. 630–631.
6. Lodge, Edmund (1867). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Hurst and Blackett. p. 24.
7. Walford, Edward (1893). The Windsor Peerage for 1890-1894. p. 23.
8. American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868. Genealogical Publishing Com. 1987. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-8063-1177-7.
9. "The House of Hanover (1714 - 1901)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
10. "Lavinia Gore (née FitzRoy)". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
11. "STATESMEN". Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair: 262. 7 November 1885.
12. Spurr, John W. (1976). "Gore, Sir Charles Stephen". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.