A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Edward
GORE. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
The Honourable Edward Gore, born 14 May, 1797, is fourth son of the second Earl of Arran, K.P., by his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Rich. Underwood, Esq.; brother of Col. Hon. Chas. Gore, C.B., K.H., Deputy Quartermaster-General in Canada, and of Her Grace the Duchess of Inverness; half-brother of Col.Wm. John Gore, who died in Jan. 1836; uncle, through that gentleman, of the present Earl of Arran, and of Commander Hon. Robt. Gore, R.N.; and first-cousin of Retired Commander Ralph Gore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1810, as a Volunteer, on board the Revenge 74, Capts. Hon. Chas. Paget and John Nash; under the former of whom he witnessed an attack made, 15 Nov. 1810, by Capt. Chas. Grant, of the Diana, upon the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries, near Cherbourg. Quitting the Revenge in May, 1811, Mr. Gore, during the next six years and a half, served, principally as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on board the Royal George, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams, Royal Oak 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, Venerable 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham, Superb 74 (commanded at first by Hon. Chas. Paget, then employed as flag-ship of Hon. Henry Hotham, and afterwards commanded by Capt. Chas. Ekins), Fury bomb, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, and Egeria 24, Capt. Robt. Rowley. While in the Venerable on the north coast of Spain, he was present at the capture of several towns and forts, including those of Lequeytio, Bermeo, Plencia, Galea, Algorta, Bagona, El Campillo las Quersas, Xebiles, Castro, and St. Ano. Among the boat-services participated in by Mr. Gore while employed in the Superb on the North American station, we may enumerate the destruction, 13 June. 1814, of the Fair Trader of 444 tons, fitting as a letter-of-marque; – next, of the Independent of 300 tons, pierced for 14 guns, and about to be launched as a privateer; – also, of 1778 tons of merchant-shipping; – and of a cotton-manufactory, near Wareham, valued, with its stores, at half a million of dollars. He was present, besides, in a rocket-boat, at the bombardment of Stonington, 11 Aug. 1814; and, when in the Fury, he fought at Algiers. After having acted for two months, Mr. Gore was confirmed a Lieutenant, 9 Dec. 1817, in the {{sc|Fly} sloop, Capt. John Baldwin; which vessel, in Feb. 1818, had to cut her way through the ice at St. John’s, Newfoundland, for the purpose of bringing home the remains of Vice-Admiral Pickmore, and was afterwards all but lost on her passage. Mr. Gore’s next appointments were – 26 April, 1819, to the Tamar 26, Capt. Hon. John Gordon – in the course of 1827, to the Fairy 10, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, Melville 74, Capt. Henry Garrett, and Victory 104, Capt. Geo. Elliot – and 10 June, 1828, to the Royal Sovereign yacht, as Flag-Lieutenant to the Lord High Admiral. He was promoted to his present rank on 8 of the following Aug.; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Gore married in 1797, and has issue a son and two daughters. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.