Admiral Sir John Gore (9 February 1772 – 21 August 1836) was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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Early life
Gore was born on 9 February 1772 in County Kilkenny, Ireland. His father was Col. John Gore, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Tower of London in 1776.
Naval career
Gore joined the Royal Navy in August 1781, as a captain's servant, and would have served as a midshipman, before gaining promotion to lieutenant on 26 November 1789 and commander on 24 May 1794. The Royal Navy had just captured the French corvette Flèche at the capture of Bastia, in which Gore had played a significant role and had been injured. The British took the corvette into service as HMS Fleche and commissioned her under Gore. He fitted her out and sailed her to Malta where he negotiated with the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc for seamen, supplies, and the like. On 13 September Gore was a witness at the trial of Lieutenant William Walker, commander of the hired armed cutter Rose, on charges that Walker had accepted money from merchants at Bastia to convoy their vessels to Leghorn, where the court martial took place. Walker was acquitted.