Gough, RICHARD

Gough, RICHARD, English antiquary, was born in London, 21st October 1735. On leaving Benet (now Corpus Christi) College, Cambridge, in 1756, he began work as a professed antiquarian by a visit to Peterborough and Crowland, and continued to make similar excursions down to 1771. Two years later he commenced the preparation of an English version of Camden's Britannia, which was issued in 1789. But three years previously he had published his important Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain, which was brought down only to the end of the 15th century. Amongst numerous minor works from Gough's pen was a History of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1770). He died at Enfield, in Middlesex, 20th February 1809.