[2] Born at Blackfriars, Bristol on 22 January 1826, he was son of George Gore, a cooper in the city.
[3] In 1851 Gore moved to Birmingham, working first as timekeeper at the Soho Foundry, and then as a practitioner in medical galvanism, He subsequently became a chemist to a phosphorus factory; from 1870 to 1880, was lecturer in physics and chemistry at King Edward's School, Birmingham; and finally, from 1880 onwards, was head of the Institute of Scientific Research, Easy Row, Birmingham, which he ran, and where he resided for the remainder of his life.
[3] In 1865 Gore was elected Fellow of the Royal Society as the discoverer of the amorphous allotrope of antimony and electrolytic sounds, and for researches in electro-chemistry.
Three dealing with the properties of electro-deposited antimony were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
His daughter, Alice Augusta Gore Fysh, was granted in 1911 a civil list pension of £50.