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  Viscount Gough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viscount Gough (of Goojerat in the Punjab and of the city of Limerick) is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The Viscountcy was created in 1849 for Hugh Gough, who had already been created Baron Gough, and would later become a Field Marshal.
The subsidiary title of Viscount, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, is Baron Gough of ChinKangFoo in China and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej.
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 Norman Gough's Home Page
Hugh Gough (1779-1869) the 1st Viscount (1779-1869) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, born in Woodstown, County
Sir Charles John Stanley Gough VC (1832-1912) was a famous general, born in to George Gough and Charlotte Margaret Becher.He belonged to a family from Rathronen, Clonmel Co. Tipperary.
Lieutenant Hugh Gough won a VC during the mutiny and Sir Charles son, Captain Brevet major J.E. Gough won a similar honour in Somaliland in 1903.
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 A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
It is one of the ten suffragan bishopricks that constitute the ecclesiastical province of Armagh; and comprehends the greater part of the county of Donegal, extending for 55 miles in length and 40 miles in breadth, and comprising an estimated superficies of 515,250 statute acres.
This place formerly gave the title of Viscount to the family of Tracey, to which James Tracey, Esq., of Geashill, in King's county, is at present prosecuting his claim before the House of Lords.
The town, situated on the height to the west of the Avonmore, is small but neat, the houses well built and generally white-washed, with a few of superior appearance, among which the glebe-house, with its sloping lawn and tastefully disposed shrubberies, adds considerably to the general appearance.
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 Henry Hardinge
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, British field marshal and governor-general of India, was born at Wrotham in Kent on the 30th of March 1785.
After the successful termination of the campaign at Sobraon he was created Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and of King's Newton in Derbyshire, with a pension of £3000 for three lives; while the East India Company yoted him an annuity of £5000, which he declined to accept.
Viscount Hardinge resigned his office of commander-in-chief in July 1856, owing to failing health, and died on the 24th of September of the same year at South Park near Tunbridge Wells.
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 The London Times
Viscount Coyote remains Secretary of State for War and the forces in Prussia were left under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Somersett.
Viscount Coyote was given wide discretion in his role as minister of War to select Breeding-Masters, and then to fund the Breeding-Masters in purchasing top-quality Stallions and Mares for Breeding-stock (according to the Bill) "where-ever they may be found on the face of God's Good Earth".
The Duke and Duchess of Marlboro, The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Viscount MacGregor and Lady Prudence, Baron Richard Thomas Milligan and Lady Linda, Vicar and Mrs.
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 HARDINGE, HENRY HARDING... - Online Information article about HARDINGE, HENRY HARDING...
Gough; but disagreeing with the latter's See also:
Stewart (1822-1894), who had been his private secretary in India, was the 2nd Viscount Hardinge; and the latter's eldest son succeeded to the See also:
The younger son of the 2nd Viscount, Charles Hardinge (b.
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 MEDAL - LoveToKnow Article on MEDAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It has be,en supposed that the circular ornaments on the Roman standards had medals in their centres, but there is no evidence to show that this was the case, and the standards shown on the column of Trajan appear only to hav~ had plain bosses in their centres.
It is true that the Chinese are said to have used military medals during the Han dynasty (1st century AD.), but, as far as the West is concerned, we have to come to the 16th century before we find the custom of wearing medals as decorations of honor a recognized institution.
The medals ost prized by collectors are those of the 1st, 2nd, and 6th Dragoons he Union Brigade), and the 28th and 42nd Regiments of Foot, those regiments suffered very severely and consequently fewer rvivors received the medal than in other corps.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 7102
She married Hugh William Gough, 4th Viscount Gough, son of Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough and Lady Georgiana Frances Henrietta Pakenham, on 12 November 1935.
She was the daughter of Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough and Lady Georgiana Frances Henrietta Pakenham.
Katharine Nora Gough, daughter of Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough and Lady Georgiana Frances Henrietta Pakenham, on 5 April 1910.
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 Sir Hugh Gough --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The son of a lieutenant colonel in the Limerick city militia, Gough obtained a commission in the British Army at age 13.
Canadian Hugh MacLennan was a novelist and essayist whose books offer an incisive social and psychological critique of contemporary Canadian life.
The 19th-century Scottish geologist and man of letters Hugh Miller was considered one of the finest geological writers of the 19th century.
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 thePeerage.com - Name Index 478
1st Baron, of St. Fagans, co. Glamorgan (William James) b.
1st Lord, of Glenlyon, co. Perth (James) b.
Viscount (Edmond William Claude Gerard de Vere) b.
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 PERTH AMBOY SKINNERS - provided as reference:
Benjamin Skinner was Colonel of the 1st Regiment of his brother's corps.
Hall, 2d Viscount./ He was born in 1761, and married Miss Skinner in 1782.
Cortlandt Lewis., who married Elizabeth Gouverneur, was bred a merchant, and died in the island of Curacoa, in 1826, while holding the office of American Consul; leaving several children, of whom two sons, names Cortlandt and John, and three daughters, are living in New York or its vicinity.
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 DALHOUSIE - LoveToKnow Article on DALHOUSIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
, 1ST MARQUESS and 10TH EARL OF (1812-1860), British statesman and Indian administrator, was born at Daihousie Castle, Scotland, on the 22nd of April 1812.
Sir John Ramsay of Dalhousie (1580-1626), James VI.s favorite, is famous for rescuing the king in the Gowrie conspiracy, and was created (1606) Viscount Haddington and Lord Ramsay of Barns (subsequently baron of Kingston and earl of Holderness in England).
The 9th earl was in 1815 created Baron Dalhousie in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and had three sons, the two elder of whom died early.
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 magoo.com: McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in the Civil Parish of Muckno by Hugh McGough
His castle was attacked by the Irish rebels under Hugh Mac Patrick Dubh MacMahon on 21 October 1641.
Blayney made his escape and was one of the first to inform the authorities in Dublin that a rising had taken place.
I assume that this is the same Monagor that is modernly shown at the western edge of the civil parish of Muckno and which forms an arrowhead pointing into the civil parish of Clontibret to the immediate northwest.
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 1914 - Mons To La Bassee - The Irish Guards in the Great War - Rudyard Kipling, Book, etext
The 1st Life Guards on the left were detailed to retake the Irish Guards’ trenches, while the 2nd Life Guards attacked the position whence the French had been ousted.
On November 7 the Battalion relieved the cavalry at one in the morning, and dug and deepened their trenches on the edge of the wood till word came to them to keep up a heavy fire on any enemy driven out of the wood, as the 22nd Brigade were attacking on their right.
All ranks, 1st Battalion Irish Guards, greatly appreciate the honour conferred on them by His Majesty the King, and are proud to have such a distinguished soldier as Colonel of the Regiment.
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 James I Descendants News, 2005
Hugh Ralph van Cutsem (second son of Hugh Bernard Edward van Cutsem and of his wife, née Emilie van Ufford) married Rose Astor (daughter of David Waldorf Astor and of his wife, née Clare Pamela St.John) at Burford on 4 June.
The engagement was announced 2 June, 2005, between David Edward Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (b.1978, scion of the Marquesses of Salisbury, son of Hugh Peniston Cecil (b.
Iris Irene Adele Peake, LVO, Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1952-62, daughter of the 1st Viscount Ingleby).
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[1st edition] BRADLEY, Gen. Omar N: A General's Life : An Autobiography / by [General of the Army] Omar N Bradley and Clay Blair.
MONTGOMERY of Alamein, Field Marshal the Viscount Bernard Law: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery / by Bernard Law, Viscount Mongomery of Alamein.
[1st Printing] An Approach To Sanity : A Study of East-West Relations / by Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. Copyright 1959 Bernard Law Mongomery of Alamein.
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 Newspaper Abstracts
Hugh Barton bought largely of Lord Clonbrock's flock, the produce of rams from the stock of that eminent stock-breeder, Earl Spencer.
The Assistant Surgeoncy, 1st or Royal Dragoons, is vacant by Dr. Renny's death.
Sir Hugh Gough handed over the command of the troops in Madras presidency to Lieut.
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 Bibliography
Gough, Barry M. The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North America, 1810-1914.
Northwest Water Boundary, Report of the Experts Summoned by the German Emporer as Arbitrator Under Articles 34-42 of the Treaty of Washington of May 8, 1871, Preliminary to His Award dated October 21, 1872, Seattle: University of Washington, 1942.
Milton, Viscount W. Fitzwilliam, M.P. A History of the San Juan Water Boundary Question as affecting the Division of Territory Between Great Britain and the United States.
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 George Gordon Gerard Trophime de Lally-Tollendal Webster-Wedderburn
Gough reported 96 of his own men killed, and 682 wounded.
In the early 1860s George was back in India with the 1st Battalion of his regiment.
The formalities involved in selling his commission were completed in 1876, and the value of the commission was paid to his widow, Caroline, who then moved to West Hill, Sydenham, to be near her sisters and brother.
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 "G" Famous People
Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount (1854-1930) British statesman, born in Dane End, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK...
Gough, Sir Hubert de la Poer (1870-1963) British soldier, born in Gurteen, Co Waterford, S Ireland.
Guise, Mary of (1515-60) Daughter of Claude of Lorraine, 1st Duke of Guise.
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 Index Bi-Bl
Never one to take any notice of the doctrines of ministerial responsibility or separation of powers, he managed to disarm journalists and critics alike with his homespun mantra of "don't you worry about that." But he was also a Machiavellian politician which his rivals on both sides of politics would underestimate at their own peril.
In 1975 he helped topple Gough Whitlam's Labor government by breaking convention to nominate the Whitlam-hating Albert Patrick Field to fill a casual Labor vacancy in the Senate; this gave the opposition the numbers to block supply and led to the eventual election of Malcolm Fraser.
After his second state election win, he was ready to face a decade of protests, led by militant unionists and left-wing university students.
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 Genealogy Stewart
He was the close ally of the Volunteer commander-in-chief, James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, was active at Volunteer meetings and parades, and in September 1783 took the chair at the second great convention of northern Volunteer companies in Dungannon, in preparation for the national meeting in Dublin.
She was one of the survivors of a tragic fire in London in 1763, where she was living with her widowed mother.
Elizabeth Stewart became in 1794 a co-heiress of her late brother, the 4th Viscount Molesworth, and inherited a share of the Molesworth estates in Dublin City, near Swords, Co. Dublin, and in and around Philipstown, King's County.
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 Index Ca-Ce
His strong position also aroused anger and in 1969 he and his family were bashed in their home, one of his attackers saying, "Who do you think you are - God?" Cairns took months to recover.
He was the oldest of four sons born to Isaac Foot, a scholarly, impassioned Liberal Party member of Parliament; his three brothers, later known as "the Three Left Feet" for their politics, were also elected to Parliament.
Hugh instead joined the civil administrative service (1929) and was posted to Palestine (1929-39) and then to Transjordan (1939-43), where he joined the Army as a lieutenant colonel in charge of the military administration of Cyrenaica (1943).
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 "W" Famous People
Wannier, Gregory H(ugh) (1911-83) Physicist, born in Basel, Switzerland.
Wellesley (of Norragh), Richard (Colley) Wellesley, 1st Marquess (1760-1842) British administrator, born in Dangan, Co Meath, E Ireland...
Whitlam, (Edward) Gough (1916-) Australian statesman and prime minister (1972-5), born in Melbourne...
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Annesley, Francis Charles, Earl of Annesley 1st, b.
Anson, Thomas William Robert Hugh, Viscount Anson, b.
Anson, Thomas William, Earl of Lichfield 1st, b.
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 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sermon preached in Christs Church Bristol at the assizes for that city and county, holden August the 1st, 1676 / by Samuel Crossman...
Englands object, or, Good and true newes to all true-hearted subjects for the taking and apprehending of that horrid deluding sower of sedition, Hugh Peters, by the name of Thomson, in Southwarke, Saturday, September the first with his examination and entertainment by the rest of the rebellious crew now in the Tower of London.
Wherein is contained the tryal of many notorious malefactors, for murders, fellonies, burglary, and other misdemeanours, but more especially the tryal of Jane Kent for witch-craft.
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 Index Co-Cz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1917 Cook joined the wartime ministry of William Hughes as minister of the navy, served on the Imperial War Cabinet in London (1918), and was Australia's senior delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.
In 1937 he became commander of the Royal Artillery of the 1st Division and in 1938 was given command of the 5th Anti-Aircraft Division.
The Democrat was defeated in his 1974 bid for the nomination for lieutenant governor by a ticket headed by an old friend, Hugh Carey.
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 GOUGH, HUGH GOUGH, VISC... - Online Information article about GOUGH, HUGH GOUGH, VISC...
Vitoria, where Gough again distinguished himself, his regiment captured the See also:
scene indispensable, and Gough was appointed commanderin-See also:
year Gough, who had been made a G.C.B. in the previous year for his services in the capture of the See also:
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 TIPPERARY MEDALS
The County Tipperary is notable as being the home of the only three men from the same family all to have been awarded The Victoria Cross.
Although there are other instances of two brothers, or a father and son, winning that medal, the Gough family of Clonmel are unique in having won three V.C.'s.
Another Tipperary man, J. O'Brien, was nominated for a V.C., but died on leave at home in Cashel in 1915 before it could be awarded to him.
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 Articles - HMS Victory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There being no immediate use for her she was placed in ordinary— in reserve having been roofed over, demasted and placed under general maintenance—moored in the River Medway for 13 years until France joined the American War of Independence.
She was commissioned in 1778 under the command of Rear Admiral John Campbell (1st Captain) and Captain Jonathan Faulknor (2nd Captain), with the flag of Admiral the Honorable Augustus Keppel.
Keppel made the signal to wear and follow the French but Palliser did not conform and the action was not resumed.
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