Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet
- Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet
Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet of Artarman, Sligo (25 August 1805 – 21 December 1876), was member of Parliament for County Sligo 1850-1876 and landowner, who built Lissadell House, Sligo, Ireland.
The Gore-Booth Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 30 August 1760 for Booth Gore, a descendant of the ancient Booths of Dunham Massey, via Sir Robert Booth (1626-1681), Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland whose second son, Humphrey, a Canon of Dublin [http://www.rascal.ac.uk/collection/?ff=no&CollectionID=727&ff=no. ] married Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland's niece.Sir Robert Gore-Booth, the 4th baronet was an Anglo-Irish landowner who was accused of evicting starving his tenant farmers during the period of the Great Irish famine and of packing them into coffin ships to emigrate. Contradictory reports state that he mortgaged his estates and assisted his tenants by both providing them with food and refusing to accept any rents during the famine. [cite web | author= | title="The Gore-Booth and Warwick Families" | work=Rootsweb Gore-Booth| url=http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~truax/gorebooth.html| accessdate=29 June | accessyear=2007]
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* Sir Robert Gore-Booth: http://www.sligoheritage.com/archpomano.htm
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