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Frederick Foster Gough was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the Church Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty in China.
The second son of Ralph and Catharine Gough of Gosbrook House (later Gorsebrook House), Bushbury, Staffordshire, He was Christened on the 7 February 1825 at the church of Saint Peter, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Educated at Cambridge he obtained a BA in 1847 and his MA in 1853.
He first became a Curate of St. Luke's Birmingham in 1848. He married Mary Vigars LeMare, at Christ Church, Salford, Lancashire on 4 April 1854,. Mary died in London in early 1861. He then married Ann Marie, the widow of the Reverend John Jones who had been a missionary in Ningpo. They married at Trinity Church, Bow, London on the 15th November 1866. He married for a third time in 1882 to Emily Bear in Islington, London,
He died on 1 June 1889 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire..