John Gough

John Gough, or John Gogh (died after 1467) was an Irish barrister, judge and Crown official of the fifteenth century.

He was probably a native of Waterford city (the name Gough, though of Welsh origin, is common in Waterford). There is a reference in the Patent Roll of 1428 to "John Gogh, justice", possibly the father or another close relative of this John Gogh. Nicholas Gough, described as a merchant of Waterford in 1421, may also have been a relative.

He acted as counsel to the city of Waterford in the early 1440s, in succession to Edward Somerton, who was appointed King's Serjeant in 1437. By 1442 Gough was being praised as a man who had given "good service" to the English Crown. In the same year, he was appointed second chamberlain of the Exchequer of Ireland in reversion. He is recorded as being present at a meeting in August 1444 when James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, examined a monk called Thomas Talbot, who testified as to threats which he claimed he had heard Giles Thorndon, the Lord Treasurer of Ireland, make against Ormond. The grant was confirmed by a statute of the Irish Parliament. He and other justices were appointed to an inquisition in 1459. He was the senior judge sitting on a commission of inquiry at Kilkenny in 1459, to determine whether or not the Dean of Waterford was of English birth. Gough was still serving on the Court of Exchequer in 1467.