Philip Yorke Gore, 4th Earl of Arran KP (23 November 1801 – 25 June 1884), known as Philip Gore until 1837, was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 peer and diplomat.

Born at Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle off Dame Street, Dublin, Ireland, was until 1922 the fortified seat of British rule in Ireland, and is now a major Irish government complex. Most of it dates from the 18th century, though a castle has stood on the site since the days of King John, the first Lord of Ireland...

, Arran was the eldest son of Colonel the Hon. William John Gore, second son of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran

Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran

Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran KP, PC styled The Honourable from 1758 to 1762, and then known as Viscount Sudley from 1762 to 1773, was an Irish peer and politician....

, and his wife Caroline, daughter of Sir Thomas Hales, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Hales, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Pym Hales, 4th Baronet , of Beakesbourne in Kent, was an English Member of Parliament.Hales was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd Baronet, a long-serving Member of Parliament who held a series of lucrative posts in the Royal Household. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 6...

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In 1820 Gore was send as attaché

Attaché

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 to the British embassy in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, was transferred to Paris

Paris

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 in 1825 and to Lisbon

Lisbon

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 a year later. There he was promoted to secretary of legation in 1828 and to Chargé d'Affaires

Chargé d'affaires

In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...

 in 1832. He succeeded his uncle Arthur

Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran

Arthur Saunders Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran , known as Viscount Sudley from 1773 to 1809, was an Irish peer and Tory Member of Parliament....

 as earl in 1837 and was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1841.

Lord Arran married Elizabeth Marianne Napier, second daughter of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier

William Francis Patrick Napier

General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB , Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.-Military service:...

, in 1838. They had two sons and three daughters. He died in June 1884, aged 82, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Arthur

Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran

Arthur Saunders Gore, 5th Earl of Arran KP , known as Viscount Sudley from 1839 to 1884, was an Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat....

. Lady Arran died in 1899.