Harry Dorsey Gough[2] (28 January 1745 – 8 May 1808) was a prominent 18th-century merchant, planter, and patron of the fledgling Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early United States.

Harry's father was the English merchant Thomas Gough, who emigrated to the United States prior to the outbreak of its Revolution against Britain.

The eldest Harry Dorsey Gough's estate eventually comprised 2,000 acres (810 ha) along the Great Gunpowder River northeast of Baltimore.

While her husband held raucous parties, she followed the lead of her aunt Rebecca Dorsey Ridgely[12] in befriending Bishop Francis Asbury, the "Father of American Methodism".

In 1775, Gough attended a Methodist camp meeting in Baltimore with his friends for the purpose of mocking the attendees; instead, he found himself moved and contemplating the meaning of his life and even suicide.

[13] He subsequently joined his wife in supporting them,[4][14] befriending Asbury in March 1776 and building first a cabin and then the Camp Meeting Chapel[15][16] off Perry Hall's eastern wing.

[21] Gough credited his own conversion to the touching sermon of thanksgiving he found being preached to his slaves by an African Methodist from a neighboring plantation.