Sir Francis Gore

Sir Francis Charles Gore (19 May 1846 – 12 February 1940) was a British barrister and public servant from the Anglo-Irish aristocratic Gore family. He was solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue from 1894–1911.

Early life, family, and education Gore was born in Hendon into the wealthy and influential Anglo-Irish Gore family, the eldest of five children born to the Hon. Charles Alexander Gore and Augusta, Countess of Kerry.

His mother, born Lady Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby, the second daughter of Home Secretary John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough. She was the widow of William Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, who was son and heir of the third Marquess of Landsdowne before his unexpected death in 1836, aged 25, of a heart ailment.

His father, a public servant, was the grandson of the second Earl of Arran and younger brother of the fourth earl. He was the Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1839–51 and Commissioner of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues from 1851–85.

His younger brothers were the sportsman Spencer Gore, the first winner of the Wimbledon Championships (father of the artist Freddie Gore) and the theologian Rev. Charles Gore, Bishop of Worcester, Birmingham and Oxford, who joined the high church tradition and became an influential theologian.

His elder half-sister by his mother's first marriage, Lady Mary Caroline Louisa Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, married Sir Percy Egerton Herbert and was the mother of the fourth Earl of Powis.

He served as judicial chairman of Hampshire Court of Quarter Sessions until he was 82. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1911 Coronation Honours, upon his retirement from the Board of Inland Revenue.

Personal life In 1879, Gore married Constance Mary Bruce (died 1925), daughter of Gen. Robert Bruce of Glendouglie, younger brother of Lord Aberdare. They had three sons and a daughter. Maj. Charles Henry Gore (28 November 1881 – 20 June 1941), married as his second wife Hon. Violet Annesley, daughter of Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia Evelyn Mary Gore (22 June 1883 – 5 June 1951) Capt. John Francis Gore (15 May 1885 – 24 July 1983), barrister and author; married Lady Helena Campbell, daughter of Hugh Campbell, 4th Earl Cawdor

Sir Francis died in 1940 at his house, 61 Onslow Square, South Kensington, aged 93.