Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe

Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe (1 January 1749 – 16 March 1798), known until 1796 as Sir Henry Gough, 2nd Baronet, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796 when he was raised to the peerage.

[2] In the 1774 general election, Gough was returned as the Member of Parliament for Bramber, a rotten borough controlled by his family.

Previously an independent member, from 1788 he was a supporter of William Pitt the Younger.

In 1791 he opposed the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland and in March 1796 he voted against abolition of the slave trade.

The widowed Lady Calthorpe took up residence in Grosvenor Square.