Sir St. George Gore was a wealthy Irish nobleman, baronet of Gore Manor in County Donegal. He loved hunting and fishing, and in the 1850s he decided to visit the American West. His expedition lasted nearly three years, from 1854 to 1857, taking him to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas, and cost some $500,000.

Sir St George Gore-St George, 5th Baronet (25 June 1722 – 25 September 1746) [1] was an Anglo-Irish politician and baronet. Born St George Gore, he was oldest son of Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet and his second wife Elizabeth Ashe, daughter of St George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher. [2] . In 1733, he succeeded his father as baronet. [2] .

Sir George Gore (1811-1878) also known as Lord Gore is the man who bloomed in the West in the 1850s. He was believed to be a member of the Royal family but was actually an Irish Commoner who succeeded to have a hereditary title in 1842.

Sir St. George Gore was born in 1811 in County Donegal, Ireland, heir to an Irish baronetcy and was often referred to as Lord Gore. He was educated as an aristocrat, never married, and never held public office.

May 5, 2016 · On March 12, 1854, Irish nobleman Sir George Gore arrived in St. Louis to prepare for a hunting trip of astonishing destruction. An Oxford educated scholar and avid hunter, Sir George had...

Aug 2, 2021 · The Gore Range is a notable case in point, one complicated by the fact that no one really understands why the range carries the name of Sir St. George Gore, an Irish aristocrat whose infamous “gentleman’s safari” through Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas in the mid-1850s was a cross between a Kardashian glamping vacation and ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Sir Ralph St George Claude Gore, 10th Baronet (1877-1961) was a major in the Westminster Dragoons; lieutenant, The Royals; Vice-Commodore, Royal Yacht, 1947; President, Royal Yachting Association, 1945.

St George Richard Gore (1812-1871), pastoralist and politician, was born on 26 March 1812 at Dublin, the eldest of five sons of Thomas Gore and his wife Elizabeth, née Corbet; his father was rector of Mulrankin, County Wexford, and brother of the seventh baronet of Manor Gore.

More than a century ago, Sir St. George Gore spent a staggering half million dollars on a three year hunt-ing expedition in the wilds of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, a fabulous exploit never since equalled. by Clark C. Spence [IGH IN THE Rockies, on Colorado State Highway 84, a few miles northwest of

Sir George St George, second son of Sir George St George of Carrickdrumrusk, county Leitrim, was granted over 8,000 acres in the baronies of Dunmore, Ballymoe and Tiaquin by patent dated 18 Dec 1666. He maried Elizabeth Hannay and had 2 sons and a number of daughters.