Gough-Calthorpe Family - Gough Family

Gough Family

• Sir Henry Gough, Knt (1649–1724), of Perry Hall; son of John Gough (died 1665), matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1666; was a student at Middle Temple in 1667; elected as a Tory MP in Tamworth in 1685; became High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1671. Knighted in 1678 for services his grandfather rendered to the King in 1642.
• Walter Gough (1677–1730); married Martha Harwood, a niece of Sir Richard Hill.
• Walter Gough Jr (died 1773), married Bridget Kempson, daughter of Willis Kempson of Bilston.
• Sir Richard Gough (died 1728); third son of Henry Gough; a merchant, who travelled to the Mediterranean, India and China. In 1717 he purchased Edgbaston Hall from Thomas Belasyse, 3rd Viscount Fauconberg.
• Charles Gough thought to have rediscovered the island of Diego Alvarez, half way between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, which became known as Gough Island, in 1731.
• Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, M.P. (1709–1774); son of Sir Richard; was made a Baronet. His second wife (her first marriage) was Barbara (1716–1782), only daughter and heiress of Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham, Hampshire, by his spouse Barbara (died 1724), daughter of Henry Yelverton, 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn, 1st Viscount Longueville. They had a son, Henry, 2nd Bt., and two daughters, Barbara and Charlotte, the latter marrying Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet, MP for Leicestershire 1765–1780.
• Harry Gough, brother of Sir Henry, 1st Bt., purchased ancient burgages in the Bull Ring, an estate in Ladywood, and a 25-acre (100,000 m2) farm, now marked by Gough Street.
• Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet (1748–1798), was created Baron Calthorpe in 1796 having assumed the additional surname of Calthorpe upon inheriting, in 1788, the Elvetham and Norfolk estates of his maternal uncle, Sir Henry Calthorpe, K.B.. He left two sons, George, Lord Calthorpe, and Frederick Gough of Perry Hall.