George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough DL FLS (18 January 1815 – 31 May 1895) was an

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peer in the

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, with a seat in the

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from 1869.

Life

Gough was the son of

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Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, (3 November 1779 – 2 March 1869) was an Irish officer of the British Army. After serving as a junior officer at the seizure of the Cape of Good Hope during the French Revolutionary Wars, Gough com ...

, by his marriage to Frances Maria Stephens, a daughter of General Edward Stephens. He was commissioned into the

Grenadier Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , colors = , colors_label = , march = Slow: " Scipio" , mascot = , equipment = , equipment ...

, rising to the rank of Captain and retiring from the army in 1850.Hazel Smyth, ''Town of the Road: the story of Booterstown'' (Old Connaught, Bray: Pale Publications), pp. 101–104 He was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1858. In 1869 he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and moved into his father's house, St. Helen's, Booterstown, where he continued to live until his own death in 1895. He became a fellow of the

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. He married firstly Sarah-Elizabeth Palliser on 17 October 1841, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Wray Palliser and Mary Challoner of Derrylusken and Coagh, County Wexford, Ireland). He married secondly on 3 June 1846 Jane Arbuthnot (born 22 October 1816 in Edinburgh died 3 February 1892), the daughter of George Arbuthnot, 1st of Elderslie (1772-1843) and Elizabeth (Eliza) Fraser (1792-1834). They had three children: *

Hugh Hugh may refer to: *Hugh (given name) Noblemen and clergy French * Hugh the Great (died 956), Duke of the Franks * Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France under his father, Robert II * Hugh, Duke of Alsace (died 895), modern-day ...

, born 27 August 1849, married in London on 5 October 1889, died 14 October 1919 * George Hugh, born 1852, married Hilda Eva Moffat 1884 * Eleanor Laura Jane, born 13 October 1854 at Rathronan, County Tipperary, baptized 21 December 1854, married Robert Algernon Persse (born 1845, one of 15 children) at Booterstown, Dublin, on 29 July 1886.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gough, George Gough, 2nd Viscount 1815 births 1895 deaths 2 Grenadier Guards officers Deputy Lieutenants of Tipperary Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Geological Society of London High Sheriffs of Tipperary Deputy Lieutenants of Galway