George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough
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George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough DL FLS (18 January 1815 – 31 May 1895) was an Anglo-Irish peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, with a seat in the House of Lords from 1869.
Life
[edit]Gough was the son of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, by his marriage to Frances Maria Stephens, a daughter of General Edward Stephens. He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of Captain and retiring from the army in 1850.[1]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1858.[2] In 1869 he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and moved into his father's house, St. Helen's, Booterstown, where he continued to live until his own death in 1895.[1] He became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
He married firstly Sarah-Elizabeth Palliser on 17 October 1841, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Wray Palliser and Mary Challoner of Derrylusken and Coagh, County Wexford, Ireland). He married secondly on 3 June 1846 Jane Arbuthnot (born 22 October 1816 in Edinburgh died 3 February 1892), the daughter of George Arbuthnot, 1st of Elderslie (1772-1843) and Elizabeth (Eliza) Fraser (1792-1834). They had three children:
- Hugh, born 27 August 1849, married in London on 5 October 1889, died 14 October 1919
- Colonel Hon. George Hugh Gough, CB (1852–1900), an officer in the 14th Hussars and later Staff officer; married in 1884 Hilda Eva Moffat (1862–1947), daughter of George Moffatt, MP.[3]
- Hon. Eleanor Laura Jane Gough, born 13 October 1854 at Rathronan, County Tipperary, baptized 21 December 1854, married Robert Algernon Persse (born 1845) at Booterstown, Dublin, on 29 July 1886.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hazel Smyth, Town of the Road: the story of Booterstown (Old Connaught, Bray: Pale Publications), pp. 101–104
- ^ "No. 6775". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 January 1958. p. 181.
- ^ "Obituaries - Colonel the Hon. George Hugh Gough". The Times. No. 36105. London. 2 April 1900. p. 11.