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[[Colonel]] '''St George Corbet Gore''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|CSI}} (24 February 1849 – 1913) was an English army officer and [[Surveyor General of India]] from 1899 to 1904.

Gore was born on 24 February 1849, the son of Rev. William Francis Gore, a male-line descendant of the [[Gore baronets|Gore baronets of Megherabegg]], by his wife Elizabeth Carey Baldock. He was educated at [[Lancing College]] before being gazetted as [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Engineers]] in 1870.

Gore arrived in [[British Raj|British India]] in November 1872, and from March 1873 served on the great trigonometrical survey of India.<ref name=Indialist>{{cite book |title= India List and India Office List for 1905 |publisher=Harrison and Sons, London |year=1905 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ/page/n534 530]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=28 April 2017}}</ref> Serving with distinction through the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]] (1878–1880), he was officer in charge of survey during the march of [[Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet|Sir Donald Stewart's]] column from Kandahar to Kabul, and was [[mentioned in dispatches]] following the [[Battle of Ahmed Khel]] (19 April 1880). From 1884 he was attached to the Afghan boundary commission, and he was appointed deputy superintendent in 1886, and superintendent of trigonometrical surveys in [[Dehradun]] in May 1894.<ref name=Indialist />

He was appointed Surveyor General of India in October 1899, and retired in May 1904. For his service, he was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Star of India]] in the [[1903 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=New Year Honours |day_of_week=Thursday |date=1 January 1903 |page_number=8 |issue=36966| }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27511|date=1 January 1903 |pages=1–4 |supp=y}}</ref>

Gore was married to Elizabeth Julia Mackinnon Bruce, who died in [[Bombay]] on 23 October 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Deaths|day_of_week=Wednesday |date=29 October 1902 |page_number=1 |issue=36911| }}</ref>

Gore is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Asian snake, ''[[Dendrelaphis gorei]]''.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Gore", p. 104).</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*https://archive.org/stream/registerofsnicho00lancuoft#page/78/mode/2up
*http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v67/n1732/abs/067229a0.html
*http://www.thepeerage.com/p18589.htm#i185882

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