William Henry Powell Gore-Langton Doctor of Laws, Justice of the Peace, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Background
Gore-Langton was the son of William Gore-Langton, son of William Gore-Langton. His mother was Jacintha Frances Dorothea Collins (d1822), daughter of Henry Powell Collins (1776-1854), twice Member of Parliament for Taunton (1811-1818, 1819-1820) of Hatch Court in Somerset.
Career
This branch of the Gore family descends from Sir John Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1624, younger son of Gerard Gore, whose elder son Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabeg was the ancestor of the Earls of Arran, the Barons Annaly and the Barons Harlech. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Somerset.
Gore-Langton married Lady Anna Eliza Mary, daughter of Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, in 1846.
They had several children. Gore-Langton died in December 1873, aged 49.
Lady Anna died in February 1879. Their eldest son William succeeded as fourth Earl Temple of Stowe in 1889.
Membership
15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament.
19th United Kingdom Parliament]
Gore-Langton sat as one of the two Members of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Somerset Western from 1851 to 1859 and again from 1863 to 1873.