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George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough

1815 – 1895

British peer

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Lived 1815 – 1895 (aged 80). George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough was a politician.

George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough DL FLS (18 January 1815 – 31 May 1895) was an Anglo-Irish peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, with a seat in the House of Lords from 1869.

Life Gough was the son of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, by his marriage to Frances Maria Stephens, a daughter of General Edward Stephens. He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of Captain and retiring from the army in 1850.

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. Hon. Eleanor Laura Jane Gough, born 13 October 1854 at Rathronan, County Tipperary, baptized 21 December 1854, married Robert Algernon Persse (born 1845) at Booterstown, Dublin, on 29 July 1886.

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Fellow of the Geological Society of London; Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
Also known as
George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough of Goojerat

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When was George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough born?

George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough was born on 18 January 1815.

When did George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough die?

George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough died on 31 May 1895.

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George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough

· Wikidata: Q5539836

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