Gough-Calthorpe family

The Gough-Calthorpe family is descended from ancient and notable families who both held lands in the area around Birmingham, England.

Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament, (1709–1774) was made a baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1728. He married into the Calthorpe family, descendants of the Calthorpes who held the manors of Cockthorpe, Norfolk, and Ampton, Suffolk, and who were also sometime Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston. The fess ermine in Birmingham's coat of arms is a reference to the arms of the Calthorpe family.

The Calthorpe Barony (1796) became extinct in June 1997 when the last Baron died without a male heir. The Gough-Calthorpe family papers are held in Hampshire Record Office, Winchester.

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); another son of Henry Gough; 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, first Viscount Longueville and 15th Baron Grey of Ruthyn. They had a son, Henry, 2nd Bt., and two daughters, Barbara and Charlotte, the former marrying Isaac Spooner (their daughter Barbara married abolitionist William Wilberforce) and the latter marrying Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet, MP for Leicestershire 1765–1780.
  • Harry Gough, brother of Sir Henry, 1st Bt., chairman of the East India Company and MP for Bramber, who 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 (1749–1798), married in 1783, Frances (died 1827), second daughter of General Benjamin Carpenter, with issue, eleven children. Was created Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st 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.

Gough-Calthorpe family
See also: Baron Calthorpe

Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family
See also: Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe baronets

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    References
    • Lodge, Edmund, Norroy King of Arms, &c., The Peerage of the British Empire, 27th edition, London, 1858, p. 94-5.
    • Ruvigny & Raineval, The Marquis of, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Essex volume, London, 1908, p. 598.
    • Townend, Peter, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 105th edition, London, 1970, p. 452.
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