Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe

Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe (1 January 1749 – 16 March 1798), known until 1796 as Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796 when he was raised to the peerage.

Early life

Gough was the son of Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet by his first wife Barbara Calthorpe, the only daughter of Reynolds Calthorpe of Hampshire.[1] On 8 June 1774 he succeeded to his father's title and estates.[2]

Political career

In the 1774 general election Gough was returned as the Member of Parliament for Bramber, a rotten borough controlled by his family. He was returned again in 1780 and 1784. He took the additional surname of Calthorpe by Royal Licence in 1788 on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle, Sir Henry Calthorpe.[3] He was returned again for Bramber in 1790. On 16 January 1796 he was created Baron Calthorpe, of Calthorpe in the County of Norfolk in the Peerage of Great Britain and gave up his seat in the House of Commons.[4][5]

Family

On 1 May 1783 Gough-Calthorpe married Frances Carpenter, the second daughter and co-heiress of General Benjamin Carpenter.[6] They had eight children:

  • Henry Gough-Calthorpe (24 January 1784 – 4 November 1790)
  • Hon. Charles Gough-Calthorpe, later 2nd Baron Calthorpe
  • Hon. George Gough-Calthorpe, later 3rd Baron Calthorpe
  • Hon. Frederick Gough-Calthorpe later Gough, later 4th Baron Calthorpe
  • Hon. John Gough-Calthorpe (5 May 1793 – 10 June 1816)
  • Hon. Arthur Gough-Calthorpe (14 November 1796 – 5 March 1836)
  • Hon. Frances Elizabeth Gough-Calthorpe (c. 1785 – 2 September 1868)
  • Hon. Harriet Gough-Calthorpe (died 12 February 1813)

Arms

References

  1. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Henry Colburn, 1839), p.163.
  2. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Henry Colburn, 1839), p.163.
  3. ↑ Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage (Calthorpe, Baron (GB, 1796 - 1997)) http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/calthorpe1796.htm (Accessed 15 February 2015)
  4. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Henry Colburn, 1839), p.163.
  5. ↑ Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage (Calthorpe, Baron (GB, 1796 - 1997)) http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/calthorpe1796.htm (Accessed 15 February 2015)
  6. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Henry Colburn, 1839), p.163.
  7. ↑ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/calthorpe1796.htm
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Thoroton
Charles Ambler		 Member of Parliament for Bramber
1774–1796
With: Thomas Thoroton 1774-1782
Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope 1782-1784
Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope 1784-1788
Robert Hobart 1788-1790
Thomas Coxhead 1790-1796		 Succeeded by
Sir Charles Rouse-Boughton
James Adams
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
New creation		 Baron Calthorpe
1796–1798		 Succeeded by
Charles Gough-Calthorpe
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Henry Gough		 Baronet
(of Edgbaston)
1774–1798		 Succeeded by
Charles Gough-Calthorpe
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