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Life
1840-1901; surgeon general; MD, Queen’s Univ., Ireland, 1858; served with army in West Africa (1861) and Ashanti War (1873); princ. med. officer to forces in India; CB 1899; wrote account of campaigns. ODNB
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Notes
Sir St. George Gore spent £20,000 on a hunting expedition to Colorado in which he slaughtered a great number of bison and other species, travelling with a bathtub embossed with the family crest (See Dave Wallace [article on Gore], in Myles Dungan, ed., Speaking Ill of the Dead, New Island Press, 2007; noticed in Books Ireland, Summer 2008.)
Sir St. George Gore spent £20,000 on a hunting expedition to Colorado in which he slaughtered a great number of bison and other species, travelling with a bathtub embossed with the family crest (See Dave Wallace [article on Gore], in Myles Dungan, ed., Speaking Ill of the Dead, New Island Press, 2007; noticed in Books Ireland, Summer 2008.)
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