Samuel Gorges

[2] He married in 1669 Margaret Pointz (or Poyntz), daughter of Sir Robert Pointz of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire and his first wife Frances Gibbons, and widow of Sir Richard Hastings, first and last of the Hastings baronets, of Redlinch.

[2] Margaret was a first cousin of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whose mother Elizabeth, Lady Thurles was Sir Robert Pointz's sister.

[3] Ormonde was always generous to his friends and relatives, and it may have been at the Duke's suggestion that Gorges came to Ireland in about 1680.

[3] The post of Palatine judge was generally regarded as a sinecure, and certainly the Court's workload would not seem to require two judges, but Gorges seems to have performed his duties adequately since in 1684 he was elevated to the far more onerous office of justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland).

At his death, according to his last will and testament, he left only a diamond ring, a portrait, his pistols and his horse and carriage.