Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe

Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe KCB JP (23 January 1831 – 16 November 1912),[1] was a British peer, soldier and politician.

[6] Lord Cardigan sued Calthorpe for his eyewitness account of the Charge of the Light Brigade in his memoir Letters from Headquarters, Or Realities of the War in the Crimea, but the action failed.

He was the first chairman of the Isle of Wight County Council, and was a JP both there and in his native Midlands.

Two years before his own death, he succeeded his elder brother Augustus (1829–1910) as Baron Calthorpe in 1910.

They had two sons and two daughters:[7] The Lady chapel at St John's Church in Oakfield on the Isle of Wight was built as a memorial to him in 1914.