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Baron Teignmouth, of Teignmouth, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1798 for Sir John Shore, 1st Baronet, previously Governor-General of India. He had already been created a Baronet, of Heathcote, in the County of Derby, in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1792. The titles became extinct in 1981 on the death of the seventh Baron.

Charles John Shore was born in Calcutta in India, the son of John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth and Charlotte, only daughter of James Cornish, a medical practitioner at Teignmouth. He was educated at a private school in Clapham and, from 1808, a school in Chobham, Surrey. He then entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the third President of the Cambridge Union Society.

On his death at 89 years of age he was buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. The grave lies in the south-west spur.

On 8 December 1838 he married Caroline fifth daughter of William Browne, of Tallantine Hall, Cumberland, who bore him three sons and three daughters.

Lord Teignmouth served as MP for Marylebone from 1838 to 1841. He came third in the poll in the 1837 General Election, but took his seat on 3 March 1838, after Sir Samuel Whalley’s election was declared void.

In June 1834 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

His autobiography, Reminiscences of Many Years, was published in 1878.