Colonel Sir Robert Eric Sherlock Gooch, 11th Baronet KCVO DSO (6 May 1903 – 13 November 1978) was a British Army officer and local politician.

After attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Gooch commissioned into the Life Guards.

In 1946 he served as a member of East Suffolk County Council, and on 7 July of that year he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.

[3] In 1963 was promoted to Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of the Corps,[4] and in 1968 he became Lieutenant.

[5] He married Katherine Clervaux Chaytor, daughter of Major General Sir Edward Chaytor and Louisa Jane Collins, on 10 November 1926.