GORE
,
HUGH
(
1613
-
1691
),
bishop, founder of Swansea grammar school
.
The eldest son of
John
Gore
,
archdeacon of Lismore
and a relative of the
earls of Arran
,
Hugh
Gore
was b. at
Maiden Newton
,
Dorset
. He was sent to school at
Lismore
in
Ireland
, and thence proceeded to
Trinity College
,
Oxford
, where he matriculated
20 June 1628
. He left
Oxford
after a few terms and went to
Trinity College
,
Dublin
, where he ultimately graduated
D.D.
His first preferments are believed to have been the living of
Nicholaston
and the rectory of
Oxwich
, both in
Gower
, which he owed to the patronage of the
Mansels
(qq.v.)
; but he would appear to have left
Oxwich
in
1638
(
T.
Richards
,
Religious Developments in Wales
,
1654-1662
, p. 495). Ejected under the
Propagation Act
of
1650
for ‘delinquency and refusing the engagement’, he
kept a school
at
Swansea
for some years subsequently. After the
Restoration
he received preferment in
Ireland
, becoming
bishop
of
Waterford
and
Lismore
in
1666
. In
1682
his affection for the town of
Swansea
and its people led him to
endow a ‘ffree Grammar Schoole …
for the bringing up and education…of the children and youths of the Corporation, Towne and Burgh, sons of the poorer sort of the Burgesses’. The original foundation deeds drawn up by
Gore
and
Bussy
Mansell
(q.v.)
are still preserved in
Swansea Guildhall
.
Gore
retired to
Swansea
to live in
1689
and was buried in
S. Mary's church
there on
27 March 1691
.
Bibliography:
-
J. Walker
,
(
1714
), part ii, 259;
-
George Grant Francis
,
(
1849
);
-
T. Richards
,
.
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