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Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet of Lissadell(]-1900), who was a notable an Arctic explorer and adventurer from Sligo, Ireland.
The Gore Baronetcy, of Artarman in the County of Sligo, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 30 August 1760 for Booth Gore.
His father Sir Robert Gore-Booth, the 4th Baronet was an Anglo-Irish landowner who was accused of evicting starving tenant farmers during the Great Irish famine and packing them into coffin ships to emigrate, however, other reports show that he greatly assisted his tenants by providing them with food and refusing to accept any rents from them during the famine.
His example is said to have inspired his daughters in Constance and Eva.
He lived at Lissadell House, County Sligo and was visited frequently by the poet W. B. Yeats, who was a childhood friend with his daughters.
Eva later became involved in the labour movement and women's suffrage in England, and Constance became an Irish politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette. Constance, more commonly known as Countess Markiewicz was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
References
- ""The Gore-Booth and Warwick Families "". Rootsweb Bore-Booth. Retrieved 29 June.
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