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The Gore-Booths of Lissadell

by Dermot James

Biography & Memoir

2004

Robert Gore-Booth was born 25 August 1805. His parents were Robert Newcomen Gore-Booth and Hannah Irwin. He married Caroline King, daughter of Robert King, in 1826. She died in childbirth. He married Caroline Goold in 1828 and they had five children. They lived on the family estate, Lissadell, in County Sligo, Ireland. He died in 1876.

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