A catalogue of the ... library ... of ... Richard Gough ... : Which will be sold ... on ... April 5, 1810 / [Richard Gough].

  • Richard Gough
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[1810]
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    BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. [Nichols and Son, Printers, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.] VVII EN a richly-stored and well-selected Library is oflered for public Sale, it is natural to ask, who was the Collector?—what were his talents?—and his o])- portunities of acquiring so rich a harvest of literary treasures? — In the present instance, it is sufficient to mention the name of Mr. GOUGH ; and to subjoin some Memoirs, formed on the basis of long and un- reserved' habits of intimacy, and Lrom materials fur- nished by himself. Richard Gough was born Oct. 21, 1735, in a large house in Winchester-street, London, on the site of the Monastery of the Austin Friars, founded by Hum- fry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, 1253. He was the only son of Harry Gough, Esq. (sixth son of Sir Harry Gough, of Perry-hall, co. Stafford^) many years in the East India Company’s service, afterwards Director and Chairman, and M. P. for the Borough of Bramber, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Morgan Ilynde -J', Esq. of London ; who, with two brothers, raised a fortune by the breweries in Long Acre and Portpool-lane; originating from some village in Dor- setshire, which themselves forgot; and, being Dis- senters, were not registered. iMr. Gough received thefirstrudimentsof Latin under the tuition of Barnewitz, a Courlander, who taught at the same time the sons of Noah 'I’itner, Pinkney Will vinson, and Edmund Boehm, merchants of London. On b is death, he w'as committed to the care of the Rev. Roger Pickering, one of the most learned, most inde- * For a copious Pedigree, and ample Memoirs of the Family, drawn up by Mr. Gough, see Shaw’s Staffordshire, vol. II. p. 187. t Morgan Hynde, Esq. was nominated Sheriff of London and Mid- dlesex in I7O8 j and paid the accustomed fine. He died in October 1714. They were originally from one of the Ockfords in Dorsetshire, ■ ’ b