GOUGH, HUGH, Viscomir, born in 1779, was the son of George Gough, Esq. of Woodstown, county of Limerick, Ireland. He entered the British army in 1791, served at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope and of tbe Dutch fleet in Salclanha Bay, 1795, and afterwards in the West Indies, including the attack on Porto Rico, the brigand war in St. I,ucia, and capture of Surinam. He proceeded to the Peninsula in 1809, and com manded the 87th regiment at the battle of Talavera, where he was dangerously wounded. Had horses shot under him both at Barossa and Vittoria and Nivelle ; again severely wounded at Nivelle ; for which engagements he received. the gold cross. He also commanded this regiment at the sieges of Cadiz and Tariffa, where he was wounded in the head. At Barossa his regiment captured the eagle of the 8th French Regiment, and at Vittoria the baton of Marshal Jourdan. He was nominated to the Mysore division of the Madras army in 1837, and in 1840-11 went in command of the land forces against China, for which services he was made G.0.13. and a baronet. On the 11th August 1843 he was appointed Commander-in Chief in India; and on the 29th of December 1843, with the right wing of the army of Gwalior, be defeated a Mahratta force at Maharajpur, and captured 56 guns, etc.• and on the same day General Grey, commanding the left wing of his army, routed another body of Mahrattas at Punniar. In 1845 and 1846 the army under his personal command defeated the Sikh army at Moodkee 18th-December, Ferozshah 21st and 22d October, and Sobraon 22d February 1846, for which services be received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was raised to the peerage. During
the last desperate struggle with the Sikhs in 1848-49, be subdued the enemy at a great ex penditure of human life. The next year he received from his sovereign additional rank in the peerage, from the East India Company a pension of £2000, and a similar sum from Parliament for himself and his next two successors. Sir Henry Hardinge, who was Governor - General, had voluntarily served under him as second in com mand at the battle of Ferozshah. He was gifted with great powers of combination and stmtegy ; but his impulsive personal bravery, rushing into the midst of the battle, and by hurrying on one movement before the previous arrangement could be carried out, disarranged and rendered useless his own valuable plans. General Havelock said he was a man with a lust for danger. He excited the warmest attachment in his soldiers, and ltiE zeal succeeded almost as well as Suwarrow's. He never lost a battle,—for Chillianwalla, though terrible destruction of life, was not a lost battle and at Gujerat, where, for the first time in hi;. life, he took advice and let artillery have fair play. he destroyed the most dangerous enemy, save Hyder Ali, the British ever encountered in India The victory was due in no slight degree to the reckless daring with which he inspired all undei his command.—Lond. Spectator, 11Ien of the Tiine.s.