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GOOCH, SIR THOMAS SHERLOCK, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., and Anna Maria, only dau. of William Hayward, Weybridge, Surrey; b. 2 Nov 1767; adm. 22 Jun 1781; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1785; BA 1789; continental tour; MP Suffolk 20 Feb 1806-30; succ. father as 5th baronet 7 Apr 1826; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1833-4; chairman, Suffolk Quarter Sessions; m. 11 May 1796 Marianne, dau. of Abraham Whittaker, Stratford, Essex, and Lyston House, Herefs.; d. 18 Dec 1851.

GOOLD, WYNDHAM HENRY, third son of Thomas Goold, Dromadda and Rosbrien, co. Limerick, Master in Chancery (I), and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Brinsley Nixon, Rector of Painstown, co. Meath; b. 8 Jul 1812; adm. 14 Jan 1824 (Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 6 Dec 1830; BA 1834; adm. King’s Inns 1833, called to Irish bar 1837; adm. Gray’s Inn 8 May 1835; Munster circuit; Crown Prosecutor, Limerick 1843; MP Co. Limerick from Dec 1850; d. unm. 27 Nov 1854.

GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES HENRY, 6th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX, and 1st DUKE OF GORDON, eldest son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 27 Feb 1818 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); styled Earl of March 1819-60; adm. 6 May 1830; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1836; BA 1839; DCL 1870; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 24 May 1839; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842; Capt. on half-pay 27 Sep 1844; MP (Cons) West Sussex 1841 – 21 Oct 1860; President, Poor Law Board Mar – Jun 1859; Privy Councillor 3 Mar 1859; succ. father as 6th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 21 Oct 1860; KG 6 Feb 1867; President, Board of Trade 8 Mar 1867 – Dec 1868; Leader of Conservative Peers in House of Lords 1870-6; Lord President of the Council 21 Feb 1874 – Apr 1880; created Duke of Gordon 13 Jan 1876; President, Board of Trade 24 Jun – Aug 1885; Secretary of State for Scotland 17 Aug 1885 – Feb 1886; a recoognised authority on agricultural affairs, serving as Chairman, Royal Commission on Agriculture 1879; DL Banffshire 1846, Lord Lieut. from 25 Aug 1879; DL Aberdeenshire 1864; LLD Cambridge 1894; LLD Aberdeen 1895; Busby Trustee from 21 May 1867; m. 28 Nov 1843 Frances Harriet, eldest dau. of Algernon Frederick Greville, Bath King of Arms and private secretary to Duke of Wellington; d. 27 Sep 1903. DNB.

GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES, 5th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON, eldest son of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG PC, Lord Lieut. Ireland and Governor-General of Canada, Gen. in the Army, and Lady Charlotte Gordon, eldest dau. of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT; grandson of Lord George Henry Lennox (qv); b. 3 Aug 1791; styled Earl of March 1806-19; adm. (Glover); left 1809; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. nob. 28 Oct 1809; BA 1813; Ensign, 8th Garrison Battalion 8 Jun 1809; Lieut., 13th Light Dragoons 21 Jun 1810; Capt., 92nd Foot 9 Jul 1812; 52nd Foot 8 Apr 1813; Brevet Maj., 15 Jun 1815; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 25 Jul 1816; half-pay 25 Jul 1816; ADC and Assistant Military Secretary to Duke of Wellington in Peninsular War 1810-4; wounded at Orthes; ADC to Prince of Orange at battle of Waterloo; MP Chichester 1812 – 28 Aug 1819; succ. father as 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 28 Aug 1819; as MP and peer a supporter of Tory governments to 1828, but opposed Catholic Emancipation and went into opposition after the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1829; KG 13 May 1829; offered and accepted Cabinet office in the incoming Whig government Nov 1830; Postmaster-General Nov 1830 – May 1834; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830; resigned office over Whig government’s Irish Church policy May 1834, moving to cross-benches in House of Lords; inherited Scottish estates of his cousin 5th Duke of Gordon 1836, assuming additional surname of Gordon before Lennox, 9 Aug 1836; became a vocal advocate of agricultural protection in the 1840s, strongly opposing Sir Robert Peel’s repeal of the corn laws; Col., Sussex Militia, from 4 Dec 1819; Extra ADC to William IV 9 May 1832; Lord Lieut. of Sussex from 19 Jun 1835; Chancellor, Marischall College, Aberdeen, from 1836; FRS 2 Apr 1840; President, Royal Agricultural Society, from 1845; DL Banffshire 1846; Steward, Jockey Club 1831; horses of his won the Oaks 1827, 1845, and the One Thousand Guineas 1845; Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, Sussex, from 1823; several details of his school life, including his fight with an overgrown bully, will be found in a Memoir of him published in 1862; Busby Trustee from 19 May 1827; m. 10 Apr 1817 Lady Caroline Paget, eldest dau. of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (qv); d. 21 Oct 1860. DNB.

GORDON-LENNOX, LORD HENRY CHARLES GEORGE, third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 2 Nov 1821; adm. 1 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; precis writer, Foreign Office Feb 1845 – Feb 1846; MP (Cons) Chichester Feb 1846 – 85; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Mar – Dec 1852, Mar 1858 – Mar 1859; Secretary to the Admiralty Jul 1866 – Dec 1868; First Commissioner of Works Feb 1874 – Jul 1876, when he was compelled to resign owing to involvement in a financial scandal; Privy Councillor 7 Jul 1874; m. 25 Jan 1883 Amelia Susannah, widow of Richard Archibald Brooman, Neville House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and subsequently of John White, Arddarroch, Dumbartonshire, chemical manufacturer, and dau. of --- Smith; d. 28 Aug 1886. DNB.

GORE, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1728/9; left 1732. [Perhaps John Gore, son of Wllliam Gore, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Andrew Holborn 10 Feb 1720 (IGI)]. [Note John Gore, second son of William Gore MP, Tring, Herts., director Bank of England and South Sea Co., and Lady Mary Compton, dau. of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton (they m. May 1709); b.; Cornet, 11th Dragoons 1739; Capt., 9th Marines 1741; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Foot Guards 1750; 2nd Maj. 1759, 1st Maj. 1760, Lieut. -Col. 1761-8; Col. in Army 1759; Major-Gen. 1762; Col., 61st Foot 1768-73, 6th Foot from 1773; Lieut. -Gen. 1772; MP Cricklade 1747-54; m. Ann, dau. of Sir Emmanuel Moore Bart., MP (I), Rosscarbery, co. Cork; d. 12 Nov 1773]

GORE-BOOTH, SIR ROBERT, BART., eldest son of Sir Robert Newcomen Gore-Booth, Bart., and Hannah, dau. of Henry Irwin, Streamstown, co. Sligo; b. 25 Aug 1805; adm. 7 Aug 1820; left Christmas 1821; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 21 May 1823, matr. Mich. 1823; MA 1826 (incorp. Trinity Coll. Dublin 1834); succ. father as 5th baronet 23 Oct 1814; High Sheriff, co. Sligo 1830; DL co. Sligo 1841, Lord Lieut. from 7 Dec 1871; MP Co. Sligo from 1850; m. 1st, 23 Mar 1827 Hon. Caroline King, second dau. of Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton (I); 2nd, 2 Apr 1830 Caroline Susan, sister of Wyndham Goold (qv); d. 21 Dec 1876.

GORGES, HAMILTON, brother of Richard Gorges (adm. 1721, qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1721; left 1728; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jun 1728; MA 1732; of Catherine’s Grove, co. Dublin; MP (I) Coleraine 1757-60, Swords 1761-9; High Sheriff Meath 1770, Tyrone 1771; m. 27 Apr 1734 Catherine, dau. of John Keatinge; d. 8 Apr 1756.

GORGES, RICHARD, elder son of Lieut. -Gen. Richard Hamilton Gorges MP (I), Kilbrew, co. Meath, and his first wife Hon. Nicola Sophia Hamilton, widow of Sir Tristram Beresford, Bart., and youngest dau. of Hugh Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Glenawley (I), Col. in Swedish army; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1721; left 1721; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Mar 1724/5; of Kilbrew, co. Meath; MP (I) Aughter, also MP (I) Enniskillen; m. 1727 [check] Elizabeth, dau. of John Fielding, Governor of Jamaica; d. 1778.

GORGES-MEREDYTH, SIR RICHARD, BART., only son of Hamilton Gorges (qv); b. 7 May 1735; adm. Jan 1745/6 (Watts'); left 1748; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Jul 1752; MA 1756; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Nov 1756; MP (I) Enniskillen 1768-76, Naas 1787-90; assumed additional surname of Meredyth 15 Apr 1775; created baronet 5 Sep 1787; m. 2 Mar 1775 Mary, dau. of Arthur Francis Meredyth, Dollardstown, co. Meath; d. Sep 1821.