Baron Calthorpe
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Baron Calthorpe, of Calthorpe in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baronet, of Edgbaston, who had previously represented Bramber in Parliament. Born Henry Gough, he had assumed the additional surname of Calthorpe upon inheriting in 1788 the Elvetham and Norfolk estates of his maternal uncle, Sir Henry Calthorpe, K.B.
The Baronetcy, of Edgbaston in the County of Warwick, had been created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1728 for Lord Calthorpe's father Henry Gough, who represented Totnes and Bramber in the House of Commons. Lord Calthorpe's youngest son, the fourth Baron, sat as a Member of Parliament for Hindon and Bramber. In 1845 he assumed for himself the surname of Gough only.
His eldest son, the fifth Baron, represented East Worcestershire in Parliament as a Liberal. The fifth Baron's younger brother, the seventh Baron, was a Lieutenant-General in the Army. The title became extinct on the death of the latter's great-grandson, the tenth Baron, in 1997.
[edit] Gough Baronets, of Edgbaston (6 April 1728)
- Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet (d. 1774)
- Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet (1748-1798) (created Baron Calthorpe in 1796)
[edit] Barons Calthorpe (1796)
- Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe (d. 1798)
- Charles Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baron Calthorpe (1786-1807)
- George Gough-Calthorpe, 3rd Baron Calthorpe (1787-1851)
- Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe (1790-1868)
- Frederick Henry William Gough-Calthorpe, 5th Baron Calthorpe (1826-1893)
- Augustus Cholmondeley Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe (1829-1810)
- Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe (1831-1912)
- Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, 8th Baron Calthorpe (1862-1940)
- Ronald Arthur Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 9th Baron Calthorpe (1924-1945)
- Peter Waldo Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 10th Baron Calthorpe (1927-1997)
