William Gore (bishop)
William Gore (died 25 February 1784) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]
Life[edit]
He was born the son of the Right Reverend William Gore, Dean of Down and his wife Honora Prittie.
Previously the Dean of Cashel from 1736 to 1758,[2] he was nominated Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 17 March 1758, consecrated on 16 April of that year; translated to Elphin on 3 March 1762; and finally to Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe on 5 March 1772.[3]
In 1783 he commissioned the building of a Manor House at Old Connaught, near Bray, but in County Dublin. Old Connaught House still exists today as a private and gated development of apartments in and around the Old House.[citation needed]
He died on 25 February 1784.
Family[edit]
Gore married twice: firstly, to Mary, daughter of Chidley Coote; and secondly, to Mary, daughter of William French, with whom he had a son, William, who became an MP for Carrick.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ "The Universal magazine", Volume 22 (1758) p22
- ^ "Dodsley's annual register" Burke,E: London, J.Dodsley 1780
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 264.
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