The Gooch Baronetcy of Benacre Hall, in the County of Suffolk,[2] was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 November 1746 for William Gooch,[3] Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749.

The sixth Baronet likewise won election as Member of Parliament for Suffolk East between 1846 and 1856.

The heir presumptive is the current holder's nephew, Robert Brian Sherlock Gooch (born 1976) The Gooch Baronetcy of Clewer Park, in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 November 1866 for the mechanical engineer, businessman and Conservative politician Daniel Gooch.

[4] The baronetcy was conferred on him in recognition of his services to the successful laying of the inceptive Atlantic cables in 1865 and 1866.

The heir presumptive is the current holder's kinsman, Peter David Gooch (born 1938).