He succeeded his father who died on 9 February 1728, and was created a baronet, of Edgbaston on 6 April 1728.
[1] Soon after succeeding his father he bought two more burgages at Bramber, a rotten borough, giving him full control of the seat, for which he thenceforth could nominate both Members.
[2] Gough was returned as Member of Parliament for Totnes on the government interest at a by-election on 25 January 1732.
At the 1734 British general election he returned himself as MP for Bramber with his cousin Harry Gough.
Edward Vansittart Neale, Rector of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, and had eight children, including Edward Vansittart Neale, one of the Founders of the Co-Operative Society, and Charlotte Vansittart Neale (1817–1881), married in 1841 to Charles Frere, a barrister and parliamentary clerk, by whom she had nine children, one of which, Charlotte Vansittart Frere (1846–1916), married in 1882 artist and writer A. G. Folliott-Stokes of St Ives, author of several important books on Cornwall, and had issue.