William Gore-Langton (1824–1873)
William Henry Powell Gore-Langton
JP (25 July 1824 – 11 December 1873),[1] was a British Conservative Party
politician.
Background and education
Gore-Langton was the son of William Gore-Langton, son of William Gore-Langton. His mother was Jacintha Frances Dorothea Collins (d.1822), daughter of Henry Powell Collins (1776–1854), twice MP for Taunton (1811–1818, 1819–1820)[2] of Hatch Court in Somerset. This branch of the Gore family descends from Sir John Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1624, younger son of Gerard Gore, whose elder son Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabeg was the ancestor of the Earls of Arran, the Barons Annaly and the Barons Harlech. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Political career
Gore-Langton sat as one of the two
Justice of the Peace for Somerset
.
Family
Gore-Langton married
Richard Temple-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Gore-Langton died in December 1873, aged 49. Lady Anna died in February 1879. Their eldest son William
succeeded as fourth Earl Temple of Stowe in 1892.
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
- History of Parliament biography [1]
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Langton, Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore- (1820–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Nov 2017