St George Gore-St George

Born St George Gore, he was oldest son of Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet and his second wife Elizabeth Ashe, daughter of St George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher.{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire | publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | location = London | volume = I | edition = 4th | year = 1832 | pages = 527 }} In 1733, he succeeded his father as baronet. He assumed the additional surname of St George to inherit the estates of his maternal grandfather, whose only son had died without issue in 1721. Gore-St George represented County Donegal in the Irish House of Commons from 1741 until his death in 1746.{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | archive-date = 7 June 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment – Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 30 April 2009 }} He was also appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1746.

On 22 September 1743, he married Anne Burton, only daughter of Francis Burton and sister of Francis Conyngham, 2nd Baron Conyngham.{{cite book | last = Lodge | first = John | editor = Mervyn Archdall | title = The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom | volume = III | location = Dublin | publisher = James Moore | year = 1789 | pages = 285 }} Gore-St George died without children, aged only 24, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Ralph. He was buried at Castletown, County Kildare.

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Henry Hamilton }}

{{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for County Donegal

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{{s-ttl| title = Baronet
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Category:1722 births

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Category:18th-century Anglo-Irish people

Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland

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Saint George

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