GOUGH

Hugh Gough , 1 Viscount ( 4 son of George Gough of Woods town, co. Limerick 1751–1836 ). b. Woods town 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 Ram nuggar 22 Nov. 1848, at Chilli an wallah 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 Boot erst own, co. Dublin 2 March 1869. bur. Still organ ch. yard 9 March. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i , 222–59 (1880); Shad well’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 .