Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe
British soldier and politician
About Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe
Lived 1831 – 1912 (aged 81). Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe was a British justice of the peace and politician.
Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe (23 January 1831 – 16 November 1912), was a British peer, soldier and politician.
Calthorpe was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe and Lady Charlotte Somerset, daughter of the 6th Duke of Beaufort. He joined the 8th Hussars in 1849, rising to Brevet major by 1855. During the Crimean War he served as ADC to Lord Raglan. Lord Cardigan sued Calthorpe for his eyewitness account of the Charge of the Light Brigade in his memoir Letters from Headquarters, Or Realities of the War in the Crimea, but the action failed. Hon. Somerset Frederick (1862–1940), succeeded as 8th Baron Calthorpe Admiral of the Fleet Honourable Sir Hon. Somerset Arthur (1864–1937), a Royal Navy officer; married in 1900 Annie Euphemia "Effie" Dunsmuir, daughter of Robert Dunsmuir, of Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, B.C. Hon. Leila Mabel (11 September 1866 – 18 November 1933) Hon. Leila Evelyn (6 February 1871 – 29 February 1956), married in 1899, Cecil Grosvenor Wilson (later Wilson-Heathcote)
The Lady chapel at St John's Church in Oakfield on the Isle of Wight was built as a memorial to him in 1914.
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Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe was born on 23 January 1831.
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Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe died on 12 November 1912.
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Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe was a justice of the peace and politician.
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