Talk:Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

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GCB?[edit]

How on earth was he never made a GCB? john k (talk) 16:49, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He was a GCB. Now corrected. Dormskirk (talk) 13:40, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hammer of the Sikhs?[edit]

Was this the General Hugh Gough who was known as "Hammer of the Sikhs"? If so, it should be stated clearly in this article. 79.97.64.240 (talk) 12:28, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide a source for this. Thanks. Dormskirk (talk) 13:38, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The statue[edit]

In the first paragraph of his book "My Early Life" Sir Winston Churchill writes:

I remember my grandfather, the Viceroy, unveiling the Lord Gough statue in 1878.

The text can be found here - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160543

HTH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.117.112.158 (talk) 04:06, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]


To bring the words into relief. They occur in the very first paragraph >
CHAPTER I
CHILDHOOD
When does one first begin to remember? When do the waving lights and shadows of dawning consciousness cast their print upon the mind of a child? My earliest memories are Ireland. I can recall scenes and events in Ireland quite well, and sometimes dimly, even people. Yet I was born on November 30, 1874, and I left Ireland early in the year 1879. My father had gone to Ireland as secretary to his father, the Duke of Marlborough, appointed Lord-Lieutenant by Mr. Disraeli in 1876. We lived in a house called 'The Little Lodge,' about a stone's throw from the Viceregal. Here I spent nearly three years of childhood. I have clear and vivid impressions of some events. I remember my grandfather, the Viceroy, unveiling the Lord Gough statue in 1878. A great black crowd, scarlet soldiers on horseback, strings pulling away a brown shiny sheet, the old Duke, the formidable grandpapa, talking loudly to the crowd. I recall even a phrase he used: 'and with a withering volley he shattered the enemy's line'. I quite understood that he was speaking about war and fighting and that a 'volley' meant what the black-coated soldiers (Riflemen) used to do with loud bangs so often in the Phoenix Park where I was taken for my morning walks. This, I think, is my first coherent memory.
A branch descended from Thomas Bunbury Gough, Dean of Derry, brother to Viscount Gough, extended into the twentieth century in Australia; one member, Doris Boyd née Gough, inspired her children to consign themselves to expression in art.   --Laurencebeck (talk) 07:11, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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