GORE, Robert (brother of 6 Earl of Arran 1801–84). b. 5 May 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; captain R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for New Ross 1841–47; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Monte Video 23 Oct. 1846, at Buenos Ayres 29 Aug. 1851 to death. d. Monte Video 4 Aug. 1854.
GORE-LANGTON, William Henry. b. London 1802; M.P. for Bristol 1852–65. d. 2 Prince’s Gate, London 16 May 1875.
GORE-LANGTON, William Henry Powell. b. Burdrop, Wilts. 25 July 1824; M.P. for West Somerset 1851–59 and 1863 to death. d. Newton park near Bath 11 Dec. 1873.
GORHAM, Rev. George Cornelius (son of George James Gorham of St. Neots, Hunts, merchant). b. St. Neots 21 Aug. 1787; ed. at St. Neots and Queen’s coll. Cam., fellow 1809–27; 3rd wrangler and 2nd Smith’s prizeman 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820; C. of Beckenham, Kent 1814–18; C. of Clapham, Surrey 1818–27; C. of St. Mary’s chapel, Maidenhead 1840–42; C. of Fawley near Henley 1843–46; V. of St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall 1846–50; presented by Lord Chancellor Cottenham to vicarage of Brampford Speke near Exeter 2 Nov. 1847, but the Bishop of Exeter refused to institute him on account of his views on baptismal regeneration, the result was more than 2½ years’ litigation at end of which Gorham was instituted by Sir H. J. Fust, judge of the court of arches; author of: The history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neots 2 vols. 1820 and many other books. d. Brampford Speke 19 June 1857; Bentley’s Miscellany xxvii, 612–16 (1850), portrait; I.L.N. 25 May 1850 p. 373, portrait.
GORING, Sir Harry Dent, 7 Baronet. b. Devonshire place, London 30 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Shoreham 1832–41; succeeded 26 March 1844; sheriff of Anglesea 1848. d. Hotel Windsor, Rue Rivoli, Paris 19 April 1859.
GORMANSTON, Edward Anthony John Preston, 1 Baron (eld. child of 12 Viscount Gormanston 1775–1860). b. Dublin 3 June 1796; sheriff of co. Dublin 1845; created baron Gormanston of Whitewood co. Meath in peerage of U.K. 8 Dec. 1868. d. Gormanston castle, Balbriggan 28 Sep. 1876.
GORRIE, Rev. Peter Douglas. b. Glasgow 21 April 1813; went to U.S. of A. 1820; minister of Methodist Episcopal church; member of New York conference 1836 to death; author of The churches and sects in the United States, New York 1850; Episcopal methodism as it was and is 1852; Black River Conference memorial 2 vols. 1852–81 and other books. d. Potsdam, New York 12 Sep. 1884.
GORRINGE, Henry Honeychurch (son of Rev. Mr. Gorringe of the Church of England). b. Barbadoes 11 Aug. 1841; a common sailor in the U.S. Federal navy 1862; commanded sloop Portsmouth 1869–71; transported from Alexandria to New York an Egyptian obelisk 1879–80, erected it in Central Park, N.Y. 1880, total expense was 103,732 dollars; formed American shipbuilding co.; author of Egyptian obelisks, New York 1882, Another ed. 1885. d. New York 7 July 1885. bur. at Sparkhill on the Hudson.
GORTON, Sandford. Established the Astronomical Register Jany. 1863 and edited it to 1872, printed all the first volume himself at his own private printing press, Stamford villa, Downs Road, Clapton where he established an observatory; F.R.A.S. 8 June 1860. d. 38 Pembury road, Clapton 14 Feb. 1879 in 56 year. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl, 194 (1880).
GOSFORD, Archibald Acheson, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Gosford 1776–1849). b. Portland place, London 20 Aug. 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; M.P. for Armagh 1830–47; col. of Armagh militia 1834; created Baron Acheson of Clancairney, co. Armagh 18 Sep. 1847; succeeded 27 March 1849; K.P. 1855. d. 59 Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1864.