Blazon Arms: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Checky Or and Azure a Fess Ermine (Calthorpe); 2nd and 3rd, Gules on a Fess Argent between three Boars' Heads couped Or a Lion passant Azure (Gough).

It was created in 1796 for Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet, who had previously represented Bramber in Parliament.

The Baronetcy, of Edgbaston in the County of Warwick, had been created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 6 April 1728 for Lord Calthorpe's father Henry Gough, who represented Totnes and Bramber in the House of Commons.

His eldest son, the fifth Baron, represented East Worcestershire in Parliament as a Liberal.

The famous British architect Sir John Soane was the ancestor of the 8th, 9th and 10th barons.