Gooch baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Gooch, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Gooch Baronets of Benacre Hall
Gooch baronets
CrestA talbot statant per pale Argent and Sable.
BlazonPer pale Argent and Sable a chevron between three talbots statant all counterchanged, on a chief Gules three leopards’ faces Or.
MottoFide Et Virtute [1]

The Gooch Baronetcy of Benacre Hall, in the County of Suffolk,[2] was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 November 1746 for William Gooch,[3] Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749. The second Baronet was Bishop of Bristol, Norwich and Ely. He married Mary Sherlock, daughter of William Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul. Since then, the Sherlock surname has been used by most succeeding generations as a middle name. The fourth Baronet served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1785. The fifth Baronet represented the Suffolk county constituency in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1830. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Suffolk East between 1846 and 1856. The eleventh Baronet was a Colonel in the Army.

List of Gooch baronets, of Benacre Hall (1746)

The heir presumptive is the current holder's nephew, Robert Brian Sherlock Gooch (born 1976)

Gooch Baronets of Clewer Park

The Gooch Baronetcy of Clewer Park, in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 November 1866 for the mechanical engineer, businessman and Conservative politician Daniel Gooch.[4] The baronetcy was conferred on him in recognition of his services to the successful submersion of the Atlantic Cables of 1865 and 1866.

List of Gooch baronets, of Clewer Park (1866)
  • Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (1816–1889)
  • Sir Henry Daniel Gooch, 2nd Baronet (1841–1897)
  • Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch, 3rd Baronet (1869–1926)
  • Sir Robert Douglas Gooch, 4th Baronet (1905–1989)
  • Sir Trevor Sherlock Gooch, 5th Baronet (1915–2003)
  • Sir Miles Peter Gooch, 6th Baronet (born 1963)

The heir presumptive is the current holder's kinsman, Peter David Gooch (born 1938)

Notes
  1. Burke's Peerage. 1949.
  2. Benacre Hall Archived 2015-01-18 at the Wayback Machine, The Benacre Estate, www.benacre.co.uk
  3. "No. 8585". The London Gazette. 4 November 1746. p. 1.
  4. "No. 23183". The London Gazette. 13 November 1866. p. 5994.

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