Background
He was the son of Sir Henry Gough of Perry Hall.
He was the son of Sir Henry Gough of Perry Hall.
On 6 April 1728 he was created a baronet, of Edgbaston in the County of Warwick in the Baronetage of Great Britain. They had six children. Sir Harry also had two daughters, Barbara and Charlotte Gough, also known as Gough-Calthorpe.
The former (c 1745 - 1826) married in 1770 Isaac Spooner, a wealthy Birmingham businessman, and bore ten children, including Barbara Spooner, who married abolitionist William Wilberforce, and Anne Spooner (1780 - 1873), who married in 1809 The Review
Edward Vansittart Neale, Rector of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, and had eight children, including Edward Vansittart Neale, one of the Founders of the Company-Operative Society, and Charlotte Vansittart Neale (1817 - 1881), married in 1841 to Charles Frere, a barrister and parliamentary clerk, by whom she had nine children, one of which, Charlotte Vansittart Frere (1846 - 1916), married in 1882 artist and writer A. G. Folliott-Stokes of Street Ives, author of several important books on Cornwall, and had issue. The latter married Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet, who was Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1765 to 1780.
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He served as Member of Parliament for Totnes in 1732 and 1733.