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Sir Ralph Gore, the fourth Baronet, became in right of Sir his mother possessed of the estates of Manor-Hamilton, and adorning the
island of Ballymacmanus in Lough- Earne, county of Fermanagh, with many elegant improvements, gave it the name of Bell Isle.
9 October
1714, he was sworn of the privy council to K. George I was so continued by K. George II on his accession to the throne
') S4 and 8 August 1717 was constituted chancellor of
the exchequer. He represented the county of Donegal! in parliament, and 14 October 1729, was chosen speaker of the House of Commons, in the room of the Right Hon.
William Conolly ; 22 April 1730 he was sworn one of the L. J. of the kingdom, as he was again 24 April 1732,
and dying 23 February following, was interred in Christ Church Dublin (having made his will 5 February 1726).
He married first a daughter of Sir Robert Colvill of Netown in the county of Down, Knt. by her he had Hannah, married 28 June 1727 to John Donellan, Esq. and
Rose in July 1733, to the Right Honourable Anthony Malone, uncle to Richard Lord Sunderlin. He married secondly Elizabeth, only daughter of doctor St. George
. Ashe, Lord Bishop of Clogher * and by her (who died 7 December 1741), he left issue three sons and four daughters, viz. Sir St. George, and Sir Ralph, successive Baronets; Richard, (born 16 0ctober 1728, settled at Sandymount in the county of Wicklow, is now living, and
has issue two sons) ; daughter Jane, (born 25 January 1719, to whom her uncle Richard St. George, bequeathed 2000I. and married in 1744 to Charles Coote,
Esq.); Elizabeth, born 17 March 1720 and married 6
April 1743 to Frederick Cary-Hamilton, Esq. second son. of Henry Cary of Dungiven in the county of Derry, Esq.
and chosen to parliament for that county in November same year); Catharine, born 7 November 1723, married
14 June 1744 to James Daly of Carrownekclly in the county of Galway, Esq. and had issue * ; and Mary, the youngest:
* Sir George St:, George of Dunmore in the county of Galway, Knt. uncle to George who died Lord St. George, died in October
1711, leaving one son Richard of Dunmore, who in June 1686, married Anne, daughter of John Eyre of Eyre-Court, Esq. and
died without issue in September 1726, whereby his four sisters be- came his coheirs, viz. Elizabeth, second wife of Sir William Parsons of Parsontown in the King's County, Bart, and died without issue in February 1739; Emilia, married to Rev. Carlton made Dean of Corke in February 1721, and (he died without issue ; Jane, (to Doctor St, George Ashe, mentioned in the text, and died
5 August 1741, having had issue St. George Ashe, Esq. who died
in January 1721 ; and Elizabeth, Lady Gore, who became heir to her brother) ; and Catharine, to Doctor Charles Crow, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, by whom (she was mother of Sackville Crow, Esq. who
died unmarried. Hence Lady Gore became sole heir to her grandfather, Sir George St. George. (Collections.) Youngest: daughter was mairied 27 Oclober 1762 to Frededrick Gore, esq. fifth son of her uncle William, dean of Down.
Exerpt from Irish Peerage 1789 Vol II
| Date | 1789 |
| Linked to | Sir Ralph Gore |
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