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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 2

Baronet's Badge, Ireland, 45mm x 36mm, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1929) and enamel, shamrocks around central shield and crown, reverse engraved 'Gore of Castle Gore 1662', good very fine, with neck riband

The Gore Baronetcy, of Castle Gore, of Newtown in the County of Mayo, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Arthur Gore, who represented County Mayo in the Irish House of Commons, in April 1662. The 3rd Baronet, Sir Arthur Gore, Bt., was subsequently elevated to the Peerage as Baron Saunders and Viscount Sudley, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1758, and additionally created Earl of Arran, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1762. The 5th Earl, and 7th Baronet, was created Baron Sudley, of Castle Gore in the County of Mayo, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1884.

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