Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, KP, PC (Ire) (25 July 1734 – 8 October 1809), styled The Honourable Arthur Gore from 1758 to 1762 and Viscount Sudley from 1762 to 1773, was an Irish peer and politician.
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Early life
Arran was the eldest son of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran, and Jane Saunders. His younger brothers were Hon. Richard Gore, MP and Hon. Paul Gore, who married Anne Leonard (a daughter of William Leonard). His sisters were Lady Joanna Gore (wife of Philip Doyne and, after his death, Michael Daly) and Lady Elizabeth Gore (wife of Sir John Evans-Freke, 1st Baronet).
His paternal grandparents were Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet, and the former Elizabeth Annesley (a daughter of Maurice Annesley of Sherlock v Annesley infamy). His aunt, Anne Gore, was married to the 1st Earl of Altamont. His maternal grandfather was Richard Saunders (a grandson of Henry Whitfield, MP).
Upon his grandfather's death, his father became the 3rd Gore Baronet of Newtown. After his father was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Saunders of Deeps in the County of Wexford, and Viscount Sudley of Castle Gore in the County of Mayo in 1758, he was styled The Honourable Arthur Gore. When his father was made the Earl of Arran in 1762, he assumed the courtesy title of Viscount Sudley for himself.
Career
He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Donegal Borough in 1759, a seat he held until 1761 and again from 1768 to 1774 and also represented County Wexford between 1761 and 1768. In 1773, he succeeded his father as second Earl of Arran and entered the Irish House of Lords. Arran was also appointed High Sheriff of County Wexford in 1757 and High Sheriff of Mayo in 1765.
He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1771 and in 1783 he was invested as one of the original sixteen Knights of the Order of St Patrick.
Personal life
On 14 July 1760, Lord Arran married Hon. Catherine Annesley (1739–1770), only daughter of the 1st Viscount Glerawly and Lady Anne Beresford (eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Tyrone). They had six children:
Arthur Saunders Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran (20 July 1761 – 20 January 1837), who married Mary Tyrrell, governess to Princess Charlotte of Wales and only surviving daughter and heiress of Sir John Tyrrell, 5th Baronet
Lady Anne Jane Gore (April 1763 – 3 May 1827), who married Henry Hatton of Great Clonard in 1783, and after his death married, as his third wife, John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn in 1800
Lady Elizabeth Araminta Gore (April 1764 – ?), who married Henry Monck
Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore (September 1766 – 1852), who married her cousin, John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery
Colonel Hon. William John Gore (1767–1836), Master of the Horse to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who married Caroline Hales, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Hales, 4th Baronet
Lady Jane Gore (November 1770 – 1831), who married Dudley Loftus of Killyon
In 1771, he remarried to Anne Knight, daughter of Rev. Boleyn Knight of Otley. Before her death in 1779, they were the parents of three children:
Very Rev. Hon. George Gore (February 1774 – 1844), who married Anne Burrowes, daughter of Robert Burrowes of Stradone, then married Sophia Ribton, daughter of Sir George Ribton, 2nd Baronet, in 1820, and married for the third time Maria Isaac, widow of Thomas Bunbury Isaac of Hollywood House, in 1823
Lady Maria Louisa Gore (June 1775 – 1827), who married James Knox-Gore of Broadlands Park in 1800