The Honourable Augustus Gough-Calthorpe
(1829-1910)

Volume 1, page 48, sitting number 397.

Augustus Cholmondeley Gough-Calthorpe was born on 8 November 1829, the third son of Frederick, 4th Baron Calthorpe and Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset, eldest daughter of the 6th Duke of Beaufort.

Educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford (MA, 1855), he was something of an agriculturalist, introducing at Elvetham a herd of shorthorn cattle, Southdown sheep, and Berkshire pigs. 

On 22 July 1869 he married Maud Augusta, youngest daughter of the Honourable Octavius Duncombe.

When his elder brother died unmarried on 25 June 1893, and another brother having died at the age of sixteen, Augustus Gough-Calthorpe succeeded as 6th Baron Calthorpe.

He was a generous donator of land to Birmingham city (1894) and to the city's university (1900).

Lord Calthorpe died on 22 July 1910 at the age of 80. He was survived by four daughters, but his only son had predeceased him by four years. He was succeeded by his younger brother.

[All the portraits on this page are from an album he compiled and decorated in the early 1860s.]