Background
Arran was the only son of Arthur Saunders Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, and Lady Edith Elizabeth Henrietta Jocelyn.
Arran was the only son of Arthur Saunders Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, and Lady Edith Elizabeth Henrietta Jocelyn.
He fought with the Royal Horse Guards in the Second Boer War 1899-1900, and was promoted a brevet Major in November 1900. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, County Louth and County Mayo, a Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo and Essex and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Donegal from 1917 to 1920. Lord Arran married, firstly, Maud Jacqueline Marie Beauclerk van Kattendyke, daughter of Huyssen van Kattendyke, 3rd Baron van Kattendyke, in 1902.
Lilian, Lady Arran, died in 1961.
He later fought in the First World War and achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was made a Knight of the Order of Street Patrick in 1909 and admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1917.
