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Bishop Hugh Gore (1613-1691)

Blazon

Shield: Gules a fess between three cross crosslets fitchée Or.

Crest: A wolf rampant Argent collared Or.

Motto : In hoc signo vinces (In this sign you will conquer).

Hugh Gore, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland, began his clerical career in Oxwich and returned to Swansea at the end of his life. In 1683 he founded Swansea Grammar School, now a comprehensive school and named Bishop Gore School after him.

Bishop Gore was reputedly related to the Gores, Earls of Arran (Ireland) and used the Gore arms.

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The Gore arms in Swansea Guildhall.
Gore's ecclesiastical arms, impaled with those of his diocese.
The Bishop Gore School badge includes the ecclesiastical arms of Hugh Gore (in outline).