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John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech (1816–1876), British peer and Conservative MP for Caernarvonshire and Shropshire North
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John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly (1718–1784), Irish peer and MP for Jamestown and Longford County
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Jack Gore (1899–1971), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wales (RU), Blaina, Great Britain (RL), and Salford
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The first European to discover the river was Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1848 who named it the Gore River after one of Captain James Cook's crew from the Endeavour, Lieutenant John Gore.
Gore was the eldest son of the Rev. Charles Gore of Honbury, Gloucestershire and was the member of a branch of the Gore family that descended from Sir John Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1624, younger son of Gerard Gore, whose elder son Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, was the ancestor of the Earls of Arran, the Barons Annaly and the Barons Harlech.
Nelson, with the 18-pounder 32-gun frigate HMS Medusa under Captain John Gore as flagship, arrived at the port of Boulogne the evening of August 3.