Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe

Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe,^[1] KCB JP (23 January 1831 – 16 November 1912),^[2] was a British soldier and politician.^[3]^[4]

Calthorpe was the fourth son of Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe^[5] and Lady Charlotte Somerset, daughter of the 6th Duke of Beaufort. He joined the 8th Hussars in 1849, rising to Brevet major by 1855. During the Crimean War he served as ADC^[6] to Lord Raglan.^[7] Lord Cardigan sued Calthorpe for his eyewitness account of the Charge of the Light Brigade in his memoir Letters from Headquarters, Or Realities of the War in the Crimea, but the action failed.^[6] He became lieutenant-colonel in 1861, commanding the 5th Dragoon Guards. He was the first chairman of the Isle of Wight County Council, and was a JP both there and in his native Midlands.

Two years before his own death, he succeeded his elder brother Augustus (1829–1910) as Baron Calthorpe in 1910.

In 1862 he married Eliza Maria Chamier,^[8] only child of Captain Chamier RN and widow of Captain Frederick Crewe. They had two sons and two daughters, including:

Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe (1862–1940), who succeeded as 8th Baron Calthorpe
Admiral of the Fleet Honourable Sir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe (1865–1937), a Royal Navy officer.
Honourable Leila Maud Gough-Calthorpe (b. 1866)
Honourable Mabel Gough-Calthorpe

The Lady chapel at St John's Church in Oakfield on the Isle of Wight was built as a memorial to him in 1914.^[9]

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe
	Crest 1st: A Boar's Head couped at the neck Azure (Calthorpe); 2nd: A Boar's Head couped Argent pierced through the cheek with a Broken Spear Gules (Gough) Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Checky Or and Azure a Fess Ermine (Calthorpe); 2nd and 3rd, Gules on a Fess Argent between three Boars' Heads couped Or a Lion passant Azure (Gough) Supporters On either side a Wild Man proper his Hair and Beard Sable wreathed about the head and waist with Oak Vert fructed Or the exterior hand holding a Club erect of the last Motto Gradu Diverso Via Una (The same way by different steps) ^[10]

References[edit]

^ London Metropolitan Archives
^ "Obituary: Lord Calthorpe". The Times (London, England), 18 November 1912, p. 9; Issue 40059.
^ "Calthorpe. 7th Baron cr 1796 (Lt-Gen. Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe) (Bt 1728)". Who Was Who. Vol. 1. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U184374. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
^ "Lieutenant General The Honourable Somerset Gough Calthorpe". Birmingham Images. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^ Cracrofts. Cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved on 18 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Lord Cardigan And Major Calthorpe". The Times (London, England), 7 February 1857, p. 9; Issue 22598.
^ Gough-Calthorpe, S. (1858) "Letters from Headquarters, Or Realities of the War in the Crimea". London, Murray.
^ Eliza Maria Chamier. thePeerage.com. Retrieved on 18 May 2018.
^ Lane, Marian (1994). Parish Churches of the Isle of Wight. Newport: South Wight Borough Council. p. 33.
^ "Calthorpe, Baron (GB, 1796 - 1997)".