Christopher Charles Gore 1959-2015

[Michael Rhodes]

_. Christopher Charles Gore, who died at his home at Csakbereny, Hungary, 13 August, 2015, aged , at the age of 55, was a scion of the Earls Temple of Stowe (Peerage of the UK cr 1822), and a brother of the Duchess of Norfolk.

He was born  19 Dec 1959, the only son of Capt John Temple Gore ( a grandson maternally of the 16th Earl of Eglington & Winton), by his 1st wife the former Serena Margaret Mounsey. His sister Georgina (b 30 Jan 1962) is the wife of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, another sister, Charlotte (b 29 Oct 1958), is the Baroness Westbury, wife of the 6th Baron, &c.

The funeral is being held in Hungary.

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[Olivier]

Charles II Stuart, King of England 1630-1685 &1660
Barbara Villiers, Baroness Nonsuch 1640-1709
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Charlotte Fitzroy 1664-1718 &1674
Edward Henry Lee, Earl of Lichfield 1663-1716
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Barbara Lee 1695-1729/ &ca 1725
George Browne, baronet of Kiddington ca 1694-1754
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Barbara Browne 1729-1801 &1760
Edward Gore 1725-1801
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Charles Gore 1765-1841 &1798
Harriet Little +1840
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George Gore 1807-1887 &1841
Frances Anne Rous
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Francis William Gore 1855-1938 &1885
Constance Grace Milles 1864-1941
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Christopher Gerald Gore 1903-1954 &1930
Barbara Susan Montgomerie 1909
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John Temple Gore 1931- &1957
Serena Margaret Mounsey +2015
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Christopher Charles Gore 1959-2015

[Shinjinee]

Thank you for this update. Very sad for the family, especially with a young daughter (mentioned in a New York Times article 2012).  He also had two children -  Helena Lucia Gore (b. 1993) and John Theodore Gore (b. 1996) - by his first wife Kathryn Ambler [(b. 1966) any relative of John Ambler who married Pss Margaretha of Sweden?] whom he married 1992 in Budapest and divorced 1998.

Updates on the sister: The elder sister Charlotte was first married to a baronet, by whom she had issue 2 children. No children but stepchildren by the 2nd husband. The Duchess of Norfolk is now separated from her husband, per several news report, but still lives at Arundel Castle.

I believe Christopher Gore was twice married, and his 2nd wife was Catherine Maria Dickens (b. 1966), a descendant of Charles Dickens, the great Victorian novelist, whose mother was Hungarian, the former Countess Jeanne-Marie Wenckheim.  A young daughter is mentioned in the 2012 New York Times article.  She is Maritta Elsa Gore (b. 2004) [http://geneall.net/en/name/586212/catherine-maria-dickens/]. He also had two children by an earlier marriage 1992-1998.

LinkedIn profile for the late Christopher Gore
https://hu.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-gore/9/481/744

For his 2nd wife Catherine Dickens Gore
http://in.linkedin.com/in/catherinedickensgore

For her father (d. 1999)
http://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Dickens/6000000007007489125
A photo of Mrs Gore with her parents and sister; https://oldlibrarytrinityhall.wordpress.com/tag/charles-dickens/

Articles about Mrs Gore

Nick Foster, "The Allure of Lakeside Hungary". The New York Times 23 February 2012.  [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/greathomesanddestinations/24iht-rehungary24.html?_r=0]. Retrieved 20 August 13:40 IST
Andrew Eames "Dreamland on the Danube, The Telegraph 4 August 2007 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/international/3359075/Dreamland-on-the-Danube.html]. Retrieved 20 August 2015, 13:41 IST.

"Among the new residents is Catherine Dickens, the great great great granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Catherine grew up in Yorkshire and, at first sight, seems as English as they come. Yet her mother is Countess Jeanne-Marie Wenckheim-Teleki, from the eastern Hungarian village of Doboz.

The countess lost her parents in the Second World War and fled to London as a teenage refugee. She met and married Christopher Charles Dickens, head of the Dickens dynasty. In the late 1990s, after her husband's death, she returned to Hungary, and her daughter Catherine used to come to visit.

It was on one of these visits, out horse-riding with her mother, that Catherine decided she too wanted to live in Hungary. By that time she was in her thirties, recently divorced after her first marriage had come to grief in the West Indies, and she had no desire to return to Britain. "I am half Hungarian, and this seemed to me a land of opportunity. So I invested in a property here - paying £130,000 in 2001 for a Budapest apartment of 180 square metres." That apartment is now worth £300,000.

Once Catherine had made that decision, her life changed radically. In a corner shop near her apartment in downtown Pest, she met Englishman Christopher Gore, who had arrived in Budapest in the post-1989 euphoria to set up an insurance business. It was Christopher who encouraged her to direct her considerable energy into a business of her own, buying and renovating some of the city's wonderful, high-ceilinged and parquet-floored apartments."

[Netty]

I also found another engagement in The Times of 6 September 1989 to Honor Serena Townsend, daughter of Johnny. Can't find a marriage for them tough. She got engaged again on 1 March 1996 to Dino Angelo Leonardo Diacciati.