William Gore (died 25 February 1784) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland. [1]
He was born the son of the Right Reverend William Gore, Dean of Down and his wife Honora Prittie.
Previously the Dean of Cashel from 1736 to 1758, [2] he was nominated Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 17 March 1758, consecrated on 16 April of that year; translated to Elphin on 3 March 1762; and finally to Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe on 5 March 1772. [3]
In 1783 he commissioned the building of a Manor House at Old Connaught, near Bray, but in County Dublin. Old Connaught House still exists today as a private and gated development of apartments in and around the Old House.[ citation needed ]
He died on 25 February 1784.
Gore married twice: firstly, to Mary, daughter of Chidley Coote; and secondly, to Mary, daughter of William French, with whom he had a son, William, who became an MP for Carrick. [4]
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