General Sir Charles Gore
(1793-1869)
15 February 1861

Volume 2, page 205, sitting number 2112.

Born the Honourable Charles Stephen Gore on 26 December 1793, his father was Sir Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran.

He revived the fighting traditions of the family by taking a distinguished part in the Peninsular War. He was present at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz before he had reached his eighteenth birthday. He had one horse killed under him at Quatre Bras and three at Waterloo.

He married Sarah Rachel Fraser, daughter of James Fraser, on 13 May 1824.

He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) and as a Knight of the Hanoverian Order (KH). He was Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Foot and Lieutenant-Governor of the Chelsea Hospital.

General the Honourable Sir Charles Gore, KCB and KH, died on 4 September 1869 at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and three sons. His estate was valued at £12,000.