Matthew Hore

Colonel Matthew Hore (died 1696) was an Irish Confederate and Jacobite politician and soldier.

In 1642 he attended the Confederate General Assembly in Kilkenny.

He was made a justice of the peace for County Waterford in 1671.

[1] During the Williamite War in Ireland, Hore was appointed a captain, and later a lieutenant colonel, in Richard Grace's regiment of infantry.

[2] In 1689, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for County Waterford in the short-lived Patriot Parliament summoned by James II of England in Dublin.