Brigadier Sir Arthur Brian Sherlock Heywood Gooch, 14th Baronet, DL (born 1 June 1937) is an English baronet and retired regular officer of the British Army.
[1] The son of Colonel Brian Sherlock Gooch DSO TD and of Monica Mary (née Heywood), Gooch was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, before serving in the Life Guards, the senior regiment of the British Army, which he commanded from 1978 to 1981.
[3] On 14 March 1989, Gooch was appointed as aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, replacing Brigadier Robert Baddeley.
[4] He was Honorary Colonel of the Kent and County of London Yeomanry from 1992 to 1999 and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1999.
His heir presumptive is a nephew Robert Brian Sherlock Gooch, born 1976 the son of his brother, Thomas Sherlock Heywood Gooch, who died on 11 August 2020 at age 76[2] He is a member of the Army and Navy Club and lives at Chitterne, Wiltshire.