John Gorges had been the last-but-one Governor of Derry before Colonel Robert Lundy’s ill-fated stint at the time of the Siege. He sat in Oliver Cromwell’s protectorate parliament for Derry, Donegal and Tyrone in 1659, was one of the aldermen named in the civic charter in 1662, was elected Mayor of Derry in the 1660s, and returned as the city's member of the Irish commons at a by-election in October 1665, according to John Bergin’s informative account of the family’s history in the Dictionary of... Read this story
