Family
General Gough was the son of Judge George Gough and Charlotte Margaret Becher. He was brother to General Sir Charles J.S. Gough, VC, and uncle of the World War I commanders General Sir Hubert Gough and Brigadier General Sir John Edmund Gough, VC. He was the grandson of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Gough. His daughter, Charlotte Elise Gough (died 17 August 1942), married the World War I commander Lt-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, by whom she had three children:
- Arthur Henry Maitland Wilson, b 22 January 1885, accidentally killed 29 January 1918.
- Hugh Maitland Wilson, 6 April 1886.
- Muriel Maitland Wilson, died unmarried 25 June 1950.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaws them,to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny familiessometimes into no family at all. When youre the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)