Born c.1831, the son of Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Bart, Lord Lieutenant, M.P. and Custos Rotulorum [keeper of the rolls] for Co. Sligo, of Lissadill, Co Sligo (other homes included Merrion Square, Dublin, and 44 Eaton Place, London), and his wife by his second marriage, Caroline Susan, daughter of Thomas Gould, Esq., of Dublin, Master in Chancery.
Cornet in the 4th Light Dragoons: 9th of July 1852.
Lieutenant, 4th Light Dragoons: 15th of December 1854.
Invalided to England on the 12th of October 1854.
Retired, by the sale of his commission, on the 26th of June 1855.
Lieutenant Gore-Booth served the Eastern campaign of 1854, including the battle of the Alma and the Siege of Sebastopol. (Medal and Clasps.)
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma and Sebastopol and the Turkish Medal.
He was presented with his Crimean medal by Queen Victoria at a ceremony held on Horse Guards Parade on the 18th of May 1855 (vide the "Illustrated London News " for the 26th of May 1855.)
"Horse Guards,
16th May 1855.
Sir, — Referring to my letter of the 10th inst, I have the General Commanding -in-Chief's command to desire that all officers entitled to receive the Crimean medal and now with their Depots to be ordered to attend in London for the purpose of being present on the parade on Friday the 18th of May1855 at 10 o'clock precisely. Be pleased to acknowledge its receipt.
I am, etc. etc.,
G.A. Weatherall. AAG.
[To] Officer Commanding the Cavalry Depots."
It cannot be confirmed if his Crimean medal was presented to him by ceremony on the Horse Guards Parade on the 18th of May 1855, as his name has only been written in (with clasp entitlement) on the Nominal Roll of those present and now in the PRO, but does appears on similar rolls published in the Illustrated London News of the 26th of May 1855 and the "United Services Magazine for June of 1855.
Marriage registered
Robert Newcomen Gore Booth married Mary Egerton Warburton, September Quarter 1860, Runcorn.
On the 6th of September 1860, he married Mary, the daughter of Colonel R.R. Edgerton-Warburton, of Arly Hall, Cheshire, but died the following year.
He died on the island of Madeira on the 29th of October 1861. In his will he left his entire estate to his widow, Mary, of Arly Hall in the county of Cheshire.
Extract from the Sligo Independent, 16th of November 1862:
"Death of Robert N. Gore-Booth, Esq."
"With feelings of deep regret we record the demise of Robert N. Gore-Booth, the eldest son of Sir Robert Gore-Booth, Bart., M.P. of Lissadill, Co. Sligo.
This gentleman has borne a long and protracted illness with resignation, and his decease will deservedly be regretted by a large circle of friends and admirers.
This melancholy event took place at Madeira on the 29th of October.
The poor in the vicinity of his residence will deplore the loss of one of their best friends — one who pitied their sufferings and administered to their wants with no sparing hand.
He has now left a youthful and amiable wife to deplore the loss of one of the best of husbands. He had only been married about nine months."
Registration of marriage, 1860, kindly provided by Chris Poole.