Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, 6th Baronet of Benacre Hall (6 June 1802 – 9 November 1856) was a

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politician.

Life

Born in 1802, Gooch was the son of

Sir Thomas Gooch, 5th Baronet Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, 5th Baronet (2 November 1767 – 18 December 1851) was a British politician and landowner. He was the son of Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Baronet and Anna Maria Hayward. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Suffol ...

and Marianne née Whittaker. He first married Louisa Anna Maria Prescott, daughter of Sir George Beeston Prescott, 2nd Baronet, in 1828, and they had at least two children: Florence Jane Charlotte Giva Gooch (died 1918) and Louisa Catherine Gooch (died 1848). After Louisa's death in 1837, in 1839 he married Harriet Hope-Vere, daughter of

James Joseph Hope-Vere James Joseph Hope-Vere of Craigiehall FRSE (3 June 1785 – 19 May 1843) was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and politician. As a politician he was deemed a moderate Whig. Early life He was born on 3 June 1785 the first surviving son of ...

and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Hay. They had nine children: Elizabeth Gooch; Diana Anne Gooch (died 1928); Harriet Sophia Gooch (died 1927); Charlotte Matilda Gooch; Isabel Edith Gooch (died 1931); Edward Sherlock Gooch (1843–1872); Francis Robert Sherlock Lambert Gooch (1850–1881); Alfred Sherlock Gooch (1851–1899); and another unknown son, born between 1844 and 1849. Gooch was elected MP for East Suffolk at a by-election in 1846—caused by the resignation of John Henniker-Major—and held the seat until his death in 1856. He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Benacre Hall upon the death of his father,

. Upon his own death in 1856, his son Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, 7th Baronet succeeded to the peerage.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gooch, Edward Sherlock UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1852–1857 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 1802 births 1856 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain