Viscount Gough

Viscount Gough (Template:IPAc-en), of Goojerat in the Punjab and of the city of Limerick, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1849 for the Anglo-Irish military commander Hugh Gough, 1st Baron Gough, whose military successes included the First Opium War, the First Anglo-Sikh War, and the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He had already been created a baronet, of Synone and Drangan, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 23 December 1842, and Baron Gough, of ChingKangFoo in China and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej in the East Indies, in 1846, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Gough later became a field marshal. The titles became extinct in 2023 following the death of the 5th Viscount.

The family seat was originally established by the 1st Viscount near Gort at Lough Cutra Castle in County Galway, Ireland, when it was purchased by him in 1852.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also resided near Dublin at St. Helen's, Booterstown. The family seat later became Keppoch House near Dingwall in Ross-shire, Scotland.

The name was pronounced "Goff", not "Guff".<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 103rd Edition (1963), p. 1041.</ref>

Title holders

Gough baronets (1842)

• Hugh Gough, 1st Baronet (1779–1869) (created Baron Gough in 1846)

Baron Gough (1846)

• Hugh Gough, 1st Baron Gough (1779–1869) (created Viscount Gough in 1849)

Viscount Gough (1849)

• Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Template:Postnom (1779–1869), Field Marshal
• George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough (1815–1895)
• Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough, Template:Postnom (1849–1919)
• Hugh William Gough, 4th Viscount Gough, Template:Postnom (1892–1951)
• Shane Hugh Maryon Gough, 5th Viscount Gough (1941–2023)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Sources

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• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, Template:Page needed
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