Benjamin Gough

Benjamin Bloomfield Gough (20 January 1814 – 13 December 1893) was a nineteenth-century Anglican priest in the Church of Ireland.

Gough was born in County Tipperary to an Anglo-Irish family that had moved from Wiltshire to Ireland in the 17th century. He was the fourth son of Thomas Bunbury Gough, Dean of Derry, and Hon. Charlotte Bloomfield, granddaughter of Lord Chancellor Viscount Jocelyn. His uncles were Field-Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough and Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield. His elder brothers were Gen. Sir John Bloomfield Gough of the Indian Army, George Gough of the Bengal Civil Service, and Col. Thomas Bunbury Gough, who was killed in Battle of the Great Redan in the Crimean War.[1][2]

He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[3] graduating BA in 1835 and Master of Arts in 1842.[4]

Gough was the curate at Culdaff;[5] Rector of Dunboe;[6] of then the Archdeacon of Derry[7] from 1846 until his resignation in 1849.[8] He then held incumbencies at Urney and Maghera.[9]

References

1. "Death of the Rev. B. B. Gough". Waterford Standard. 20 December 1893. p. 4. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
2. "Death of the Dean of Derry". Dublin Evening Mail. 11 May 1860. p. 3. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
3. Alumni Cantabrigienses, (1947). John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press. Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Gabb – Justamond p98]
4. "Degrees Conferred at the Cambridge Installation". The Standard (London, England), Friday, 8 July 1842; Issue 5615.
5. '"Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Essex Standard, Friday, 28 April 1837; Issue 330
6. "Ecclesiastical". The Bury and Norwich Post. (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Wednesday, 10 February 1847; Issue 3372
7. "The Estate of the Diocess of Derry. Part IX." Archdeacons of Derry George Downham and William Alexander Reynell. Ulster Journal of Archaeology Second Series, Vol. 4, No. 1 (October 1897), pp. 56-64
8. Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Vol III (1849). Cotton, H p339: Dublin, Hodges
9. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p479: London, Horace Cox, 1885