Due to her father's health at various times he traveled Europe and Algeria and took her with him. She also traveled in Egypt which was where she met her future husband. Her biography gives a fascinating insight into the history of the countries where she and her family were living. She tells the story of the anti-catholic riots in Alexandria and the results of the shelling of the city by the British forces. Poore married Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet on 14 September 1885. They had one son, Roger. He followed his father into the Navy and was killed in action in 1915. Richard Poore rose to the position of Admiral in the Navy. Poore wrote two autobiographical books on life as a woman and as the wife of an admiral. She was known as "Flag Mother" to the sailors who worked with her husband. From 1908 to 1911 she and her husband were assigned to Sydney, Australia, where Lady Poore was the first president of the Bush Book Club.