Background
Born at Bath, Somerset, he was the son of Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 3rd Baronet and his wife Hannah, the daughter of Henry Irwin. In 1814, aged only nine, he succeeded his father as baronet.
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Robert Gore
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Education
He was educated at Westminster School and went then to Queens" College, Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1826.
Career
During the period of the Great Irish famine, he was accused of evicting his starving tenant farmers and of packing them into coffin ships to emigrate. Contradictory reports state that he mortgaged his estates and assisted his tenants by both providing them with food and refusing to accept any rents during the famine. He was appointed High Sheriff of Sligo for 1830.
In 1850 he was elected Member of Parliament for Sligo County in the British House of Commons, representing the constituency for twenty-six years until his death.
Having been a Deputy Lieutenant from 1841, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Sligo in 1868. In 1827, Gore-Booth married firstly Caroline, the second daughter of Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton.
She died a year later, and after another two years as widower, he remarried Caroline Susan, second daughter of Thomas Goold.
Membership
15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament.
19th United Kingdom Parliament. 20th United Kingdom Parliament.
21st United Kingdom Parliament.
