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the chief ecclesiastical dignitary of Saxe- Weimar, had preached a funeral sermon. The entry in the register was signed by the Herr Hofrat, Dr. Huschke. Emily Gore erected in the church a monument to the memory of her father and sister.

Gore's will was dated at Weimar, 18 May, 1803. He left " whatever fortune I may be possessed of " to his daughter Emily, " subject to the payment of 8,OOOL to the youngest son of the late Earl Cowper according to an engagement entered into by me on 2nd June, 1775, on the marriage of my daughter with the said Earl. The same 8,OOOZ. to be paid out of the monies received from the executors of the late Mr. John Price on account of a Mortgage of an estate in Co. Radnor " (presumably that of Penybont).

His daughter and John Kipling were the executors.

In a codicil he expressed the desire that if he died out of England he should be buried near his daughter Eliza Maria Gore, and left legacies to his valet de chambre, his friend John Hallett, Esq., of Little Scot- land Yard, and his friend John Kipling. He also left " To my old master of my yacht, Mr. Thomas Reeves, 10?., and for his life the continuance of 10?. a year usually paid him by Messrs. Dimsdale & Co. on 1 January."

In a second codicil he explained his inten- tion that his daughter Emily was to possess his land, messuages, and real estates whatso- ever.

The will was proved by John Kipling on 20 March, 1807; and on 19 April, 1831, as Kipling was then dead, a commission was issued to Benjamin Barnard, the lawful attorney of Emily Gore, then residing in Pisa.

Lady Cowper's will (1826) was undated and unsigned. The handwriting was sworn to by Earl Cowper and Benjamin Barnard, and John Kipling was the executor. She left a legacy of 2,000?. to her sister Emily -fco purchase an annuity of 200?. a year, and 2,000?. to John Kipling, on condition that "he paid Emily Gore 100?. a year for interest.

Gore,

" who seems to have been a great favourite with Goethe, was the original of his exquisitely finished portrait of the travelled Englishman in the ' Wahlverwandschaften ' " (Sarah Austin, i. 153, 329 ; Goethe's ' Werke,' 1858, vol. xxiv. p. 381).

Goethe in his memoir of Hackert bears witness to the beneficent influence of Gore's personal characteristics. He was obliging to every one, and his fortune enabled him to encourage industry and to succour dis- tress. " Even when suffering from gout he

was cheerful, sympathizing, and amusing." His death, wrote Knebel to Goethe on 30 Jan.. 1807. had troubled him greatly ; he was "a beneficent nature." Gore had seen much of the world, took note of everything which could make life more attractive, and his conversation was interesting from his variety of knowledge. His travels filled him with the desire to preserve the memory of the picturesque scenes which he had visited. He gave himself to painting, used every means to ensure the accuracy of his drawings, and sought to improve his work by the example and lessons of Hackert and Kraus, with the latter of whom he made especially to Mainz and Islands. His pictures of views in the Mediterranean were notice- able for the finely-drawn ships. Not more than twenty-four hours before his death the ruling passion of his life was expressed to his daughter Emily in the wish that she should leave a legacy to the Naval Society.

This was probably thy Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture, of which Gore was a member in 1792. In an account of the Society which was printed in that year the first article is a letter by !iim, dated from Pyrmont, relating experi- ments which he had made some time ago in his "particular pleasure " of navigation. He published at London, in 1799, the " result of two series of experiments towards ascertaining the respective velocity of floating bodies varying in form, and towards determining the form best adapted to stability, or possessing most power of resisting the force of the wind in carrying sail ; intended to convey useful hints to the constructors of ships ; with observations. In a letter to the Society for Improvement of Naval Architecture."

These experiments had been conducted with the Society's apparatus at the Greenland- Dock,

" under the inspection of John Hallett, Esq., and myself, by Mr. Hay ward, lately and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Wells as a con- fidential assistant."

Gore young.

had

She

four daughters. One died was no doubt the Harriott

Gore who was born on 27 Sept., and baptized at Horkstow on 28 Oct., 1754, and may have been the Miss Gore whose grave at Rome is referred to in a letter from Goethe in February, 1788 (Duntzer, trans. Lyster, ii. 50). Eliza Maria was born on 24 Oct., 1763, and baptized at Horkstow in December, 1763. She was buried at Weimar. Some of her drawings in sepia are still to be seen in the " Romisches Haus " at Weimar, says