RICHARD

See also:

• GOUGH, HUGH GOUGH, VISCOUNT (1779-1869)
• GOUGH, JOHN BARTHOLOMEW (1817-1886)
• RICHARD GOUGH (1735-1809)

GOUGH (1735-1809)  , English antiquary, was born in London on the 21st of October 1735 . His father was a wealthy M.P. and director of the East India Company . Gough was a precocious child, and at twelve had translated from the French a history of the Bible, which his mother printed for private circulation . When fifteen he translated Abbe Fleury's work on the Israelites; and at sixteen he published an elaborate work entitled Atlas Renovatus, or Geography modernized . In 1752 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he began his work on British topography, published in 1768 . Leaving Cambridge in 1756, he began a series of antiquarian excursions in various parts of Great Britain . In 1773 he began an edition in English of Camden's Britannia, which appeared in 1789 .