John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly

John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly PC (Ire) (2 March 1718 – 3 April 1784)[1] was an Irish politician and peer.

He was the son of George Gore, in turn son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, and his wife Bridget Sankey, younger daughter of John Sankey.[2] Gore was called to the Bar by King's Inns and worked as barrister-at-law.[2] He was Counsel to the Commissioners of Revenue and also a King's Counsel from 1749.[2] From 1747 and 1760, he sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Jamestown.[3] Subsequently he sat for Longford County in the Irish House of Commons until 1765.[3]

In 1760 Gore was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland,[4] a post he held until 1764, when he became Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland.[5] In the same year he was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland.[6] On 17 January 1766, Gore was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Annaly, of Tenelick in the County of Longford.[7] In the following year he was elected Speaker of the Irish House of Lords.[5]

In 1747, Gore married Frances Wingfield, second daughter of the 1st Viscount Powerscourt.[2] Their marriage was childless.[8] Gore died, aged 66 in St Stephen's Green in Dublin and was buried in Tisherig in County Longford [2]. With his death the barony became extinct.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersA2.htm. Retrieved 24 March 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c d e "ThePeerage - John Gore, 1st and last Baron Annaly of Tenelick". http://www.thepeerage.com/p3306.htm#i33060. Retrieved 9 March 2007. 
  3. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm. Retrieved 24 March 2009. 
  4. ^ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personal of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 452. 
  5. ^ a b 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. pp. 111–112. 
  6. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of Ireland". http://www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncilI.htm. Retrieved 27 March 2009. 
  7. ^ London Gazette: no. 10586. p. 2. 24 December 1765. Retrieved 1 April 2009.
  8. ^ a b 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. pp. 44. 
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Richard Liddell
Gilbert King		 Member of Parliament for Jamestown
1747–1761
With: Gilbert King		 Succeeded by
Roger Palmer
Edward Loftus
Preceded by
Henry Gore
Sir Thomas Newcomen, 8th Bt		 Member of Parliament for Longford County
1761–1765
With: Robert Harman		 Succeeded by
Ralph Fetherston
Hon. Edward Pakenham
Legal offices
Preceded by
Philip Tisdall		 Solicitor-General for Ireland
1760–1764		 Succeeded by
Marcus Paterson
Preceded by
Warden Flood		 Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland
1764–1784		 Succeeded by
John Scott
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Baron Annaly
1766–1784		 Extinct