GOSSET, Sir Ralph Allen (only son of Sir William Gosset, serjeant at arms 1835 to death 27 March 1848). Assistant serjeant at arms to the Queen, July 1836, deputy serjeant April 1854, serjeant at arms in ordinary 5 April 1875, retired Aug. 1885; had to employ force to prevent Mr. Bradlaugh re-entering the house 3 Aug. 1881; K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1885. d. The Wick, Richmond hill 27 Nov. 1885 aged 76. I.L.N. lxxxvii, 157, 582 (1885), 2 portraits; Times 28 Nov. 1885 p. 10, 3 Dec. p. 8; Guardian 2 Dec. 1885 p. 1811.
GOTCH, Rev. Frederic William. b. Kettering 1807; pastor of baptist chapel at Boxmoor 1836–45; classical and mathematical tutor at Bristol college 1845, pres. 1868–82, hon. pres. 1882 to death; B.A. Dublin 1839, M.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1859; member of Old Testament revision committee; author of Revised English Bible, Genesis to Deuteronomy 1877; edited A supplement to Tischendorf’s Reliquiae ex incendio ereptae codicis Cottoniani 1881. d. 21 Pembroke road, Clifton 17 May 1890 in 83 year. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.
GOTT, Joseph. b. Calverley near Leeds 1785; student of R. Academy, gold medallist for group of Jacob wrestling with the angel 1819; his namesake Benjamin Gott sent him to Rome where he lived nearly 40 years; exhibited 30 sculptures at R.A. and 7 at B.I. 1820–48; his principal works were executed for Armley house and ch. Leeds, the residence of his patron B. Gott. d. Rome Jany. 1860.
GOUDY, Rev. Alexander Porter (son of Andrew Goudy, presbyterian minister). b. Ballywalter, co. Down, Feb. 1809; educ. Belfast coll. 1823; assist. presbyterian minister Strabane 1831 and minister 1833 to death; engaged in controversy with Archibald Boyd, afterwards dean of Exeter, on the merits of episcopacy 1839; aided in passing Marriages, Ireland, Act 7 & 8 Vict. c. 81, 1843; D.D. of Jefferson coll. U.S.A. 1851; moderator of general assembly of his ch. 1857; author of Worship of the Presbyterian church 1839. d. Dublin 14 Dec. 1858.
GOUGH, Hugh Gough, 1 Viscount (4 son of George Gough of Woodstown, co. Limerick 1751–1836). b. Woodstown 3 Nov. 1779; lieut. 78 highlanders 6 June 1795; served at Cape of Good Hope 1795, in West Indies 1796–1803, in Peninsula 1808–13 twice severely wounded; in Ireland 1819–26, in command of Mysore division of Madras army 1837–41; commander of troops in China 1841; commander in chief Madras 1841; commander in chief in India 11 Aug. 1843; routed the Mahratta army at Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; defeated the Sikhs at Mudki 18 Dec. 1845, at Ferozeshah 21–22 Dec. 1845, at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846, at Ramnuggar 22 Nov. 1848, at Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849 and at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; col. 87 foot 15 March 1844, general 20 June 1854; col. in chief of 60 royal rifles 28 Jany. 1854 to death; col. royal horse guards 29 June 1855 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; knighted at Carlton house 4 Dec. 1815; C.B. 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; created a baronet 23 Dec. 1842; received the thanks of parliament in 1842 and 1843 and of H.E.I.C. in 1842 and 1849; created Baron Gough 25 April 1846; cr. viscount Gough 15 June 1849 with a pension of £2000 to himself and next 2 heirs to title; K.P. 1857; P.C. 11 June 1859; K.C.S.I. 1861, G.C.S.I. 1861. d. St. Helen’s near Booterstown, co. Dublin 2 March 1869. bur. Stillorgan ch. yard 9 March. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 222–59 (1880); Shadwell’s Life of Lord Clyde (1881) i, 147 et seq.; Register and Mag. of Biog. i, 286–89, 522; History of the campaign on the Sutlej (1846) p. 11, etc.; Nolan’s British empire in India, ii, 663, portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvi, 192–208, portrait; I.L.N. xiv, 265 (1849), portrait, liv, 274, 293 (1869), portrait.
GOUGH, Alexander Dick. b. 3 Nov. 1804; pupil of Benjamin Wyatt 1823; superintended erection of Apsley house and D. of York’s column 1834; partner with R. L. Roumieu 1836–48; made surveys for railways 1845–48; with Roumieu exhibited 19 works at R.A. 1837–49; built Islington literary and scientific institution 1837–38; rebuilt Old St. Pancras ch. in the Anglo-Norman style 1847–48 and many churches, schools and houses. d. 6 Second grove, Tollington park, London 8 Sep. 1871. bur. Highgate cemetery. The Architect 30 Sept. 1871 p. 173.
GOUGH, John Ballantine or Bartholomew. b. Sandgate, Kent 22 Aug. 1817; went to America 1829; temperance lecturer 1843; lectured in England 1853–55, 1857–60 and 1878; M.A. of Amherst Univ.; author of Orations delivered on various occasions 1854; Temperance gleanings 1879; Sunlight and shadow 1881 and about 20 small books. d. of paralysis at Frankford, Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1886. Autobiography of J. B. Gough (1879), portrait; Appleton’s Cyclop, of American Biog. ii, 692 (1887), portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxv, 208, 209 (1854), portrait.
GOULBURN, Edward (3 son of Munbee Goulburn of Portland place, London, who d. 29 Nov. 1793 aged 36). b. 1787; cornet royal horse guards 1803, lieut. 1804–5 when he sold out having been prosecuted for libelling some of his brother officers in his book The Blueviad, a satyrical poem 1805; barrister M.T. 9 June 1815; a Welsh judge; recorder of Leicester to 1835, of Lincoln, and of Boston; serjeant at law 4 Feb. 1829, received patent of precedence after Serjeant Storks 1840; a comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to 1868; contested Ipswich 1832, M.P. for Leicester 1835–37; author of The pursuits of fashion, a satirical poem 1809, anon., 4 ed. 1812; Edward de Montfort 3 vols. 1812. d. 5 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 24 Aug. 1868.
GOULBURN, Frederick (youngest son of the succeeding). b. 8 April 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; comr. of customs 28 Jany. 1845; vice chairman of board of customs 1859, chairman 1875 to death; C.B. 10 July 1871. d. 57 Ennismore gardens, London 8 May 1878.
GOULBURN, Henry (brother of Edward Goulburn 1787–1868). b. Marylebone, London 19 March 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; contested Horsham 1807, Univ. of Cam. 1826; M.P. for Horsham 1808–12, for St. Germans 1812–18, for West Looe 1818–26, for Armagh 1826–31, for Univ. of Cam. 1831 to death; under sec. of state for home department 1810–12, for the Colonies 1812–21; chief sec. for Ireland 1821–27; P.C. 10 Dec. 1821; chancellor of exchequer 1828–30 and 1841–46; sec. of state for home department 1834–35; conservative candidate for speakership of House of Commons 27 May 1839 when defeated by C. S. Lefevre by 18 votes; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1845. d. Betchworth house near Dorking 12 Jany. 1856. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait; G.M. xlv, 183–4 (1856).