George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough


George Stephens Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough DL FLS was an Anglo-Irish peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, with a seat in the House of Lords from 1869.

Life

Gough was the son of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, by his marriage to Frances Maria Stephens, a daughter of General Edward Stephens. He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of Captain and retiring from the army in 1850.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1858. In 1869 he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and moved into his father's house, St. Helen's, Booterstown, where he continued to live until his own death in 1895. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
He married firstly Sarah-Elizabeth Palliser on 17 October 1841, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Wray Palliser and Mary Challoner of Derrylusken and Coagh, County Wexford, Ireland). He married secondly on 3 June 1846 Jane Arbuthnot, the daughter of George Arbuthnot, 1st of Elderslie and Elizabeth Fraser. They had three children: