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Baron Calthorpe, of Calthorpe in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the
Peerage of Great Britain The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between the Acts of Union 1707 and the Acts of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerage of England and the Peerage of Scotland, but was itself r ...
. It was created in 1796 for Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet, who had previously represented Bramber in Parliament. Born Henry Gough, he had assumed the additional surname of Calthorpe upon inheriting the
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and
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estates of his maternal uncle, Sir Henry Calthorpe, in 1788. The Baronetcy, of
Edgbaston Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family an ...
in the
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, had been created in the
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on 6 April 1728 for Lord Calthorpe's father Henry Gough, who represented
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and Bramber in the
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. He was the husband of Barbara, daughter of Reynolds Calthorpe. Three of Lord Calthorpe's sons, the second, third and fourth Barons, both succeeded in the titles. The latter sat as a
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for Hindon and Bramber. In 1845 he assumed by Royal licence for himself the surname of Gough only. His eldest son, the fifth Baron, represented East Worcestershire in Parliament as a
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. The fifth Baron's younger brother, the seventh Baron (who succeeded his elder brother, the sixth Baron), was a
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in the Army. The latter's son, the eighth Baron, was succeeded by his grandson, the ninth Baron. The titles became extinct on the death of the ninth Baron's younger brother, the tenth Baron, in 1997. The famous British architect Sir
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was the ancestor of the 8th, 9th and 10th barons.


Gough baronets, of Edgbaston (1728)

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Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet (1709–1774), also known as Sir Harry Gough, of Edgbaston Hall, Warwickshire, was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 to 1741. Early life Gough was the son of Sir Richard Goug ...
(died 1774) * Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet (1748–1798) (created Baron Calthorpe in 1796)


Barons Calthorpe (1796)

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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 ...
(died 1798) **Hon. Henry Gough-Calthorpe (1784–1790) *
Charles Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baron Calthorpe Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
(1786–1807) *
George Gough-Calthorpe, 3rd Baron Calthorpe George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Preside ...
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Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe (14 June 1790 – 2 May 1868), known as Hon. Frederick Gough-Calthorpe until 1851, of Elvetham Hall, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, was a British peer and Member of Parliament. He was born the 4th son of Henry Go ...
(1790–1868) * Frederick Henry William Gough-Calthorpe, 5th Baron Calthorpe (1826–1893) * Augustus Cholmondeley Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe (1829–1910) **Hon. Walter Gough-Calthorpe (1873–1906) * Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe (1831–1912) * Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, 8th Baron Calthorpe (1862–1940), Captain * (1924–1945), eldest son of The Honourable Frederick Gough-Calthorpe (d. 1935) and his wife Dorothy (d. 1985), née Vernon-Harcourt. The 9th Baron, having served in World War II, was killed in an aeroplane accident in October 1945, aged 21. * Peter Waldo Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 10th Baron Calthorpe (1927–1997), was educated at Stowe and succeeded his elder brother as the 10th and last Baron Calthorpe in 1945. He served as a lieutenant in the Welsh Guards in Palestine and later became an airline pilot, serving as managing director of Mercury Airlines 1960-1965. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Peter Somerset in 1966-1967. He married firstly in 1956 (dissolved in 1971) Saranne Frances Alexander (d. 1984), of Dublin, and secondly in 1979 Elizabeth Young, of Guildford, Surrey, who survives him as the last Lady Calthorpe. Lord Calthorpe later resided on the Isle of Man.


See also

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Gough-Calthorpe family The Gough-Calthorpe family is descended from ancient and notable families who both held lands in the area around Birmingham, England. Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament, (1709–1774) was made a baronet in the Baronetage of the Un ...
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Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe baronets The Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe Baronetcy, of Elvetham Hall in Elvetham in the County of Hampshire, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 July 1929 for Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Born Fitzroy Hamilton Ni ...
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Calthorpe, Oxfordshire Calthorpe is an historic manor in Oxfordshire, now a ward in the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire. It contains the modern housing estates of Cherwell Heights and Calthorpe. Calthorpe History Calthorpe was anciently a manor, held until the 14 ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calthorpe Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain Gough-Calthorpe family Noble titles created in 1796