Career
He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran. He succeeded to the title Earl of Arran upon the death of his father on 19 December 1958. He was the author of William, or More Loved than Loving, first published in 1933 by Collins, republished 1956 by Chapman & Hall, in an edition with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and an introduction by Evelyn Waugh.
He died on 28 December 1958, aged 55, unmarried.
He died only nine days after his father.