Benjamin Gough

Benjamin Bloomfield Gough (20 January 1814 – 13 December 1893) was a nineteenth-century Anglican priest in the Church of Ireland.

Gough was born in County Tipperary to an Anglo-Irish family that had moved from Wiltshire to Ireland in the 17th century.

He was the fourth son of Thomas Bunbury Gough, Dean of Derry, and Hon.

[1][2] He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[3] graduating BA in 1835 and Master of Arts in 1842.

[4] Gough was the curate at Culdaff;[5] Rector of Dunboe;[6] of then the Archdeacon of Derry[7] from 1846 until his resignation in 1849.