BARONETAGE
Last updated 13/11/2018 (26 Mar 2025)
Date	Type	Order	Name	Born	Died	Age
Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the baronet was baptised on that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the baronet was buried on that date.
GOLDING of Colston Bassett, Notts
27 Sep 1642	E	1	Edward Golding		c 1656
c 1656		2	Charles Golding	c 1624	28 Sep 1661
28 Sep 1661 to     Dec 1715		3	Edward Golding Extinct on his death		8 Dec 1715
GOLDNEY of Beechfield and Bradenstoke Abbey, Wilts
11 May 1880	UK	1	Gabriel Goldney MP for Chippenham 1865‑1885	25 Jul 1813	8 May 1900	86
8 May 1900		2	Gabriel Prior Goldney	4 Aug 1843	4 May 1925	81
4 May 1925		3	Frederick Hastings Goldney	26 May 1845	21 Feb 1940	94
21 Feb 1940 to     26 Feb 1974		4	Henry Hastings Goldney Extinct on his death	3 Jul 1886	26 Feb 1974	87
GOLDSMID of St. Johns Lodge, Surrey
15 Oct 1841	UK	1	Isaac Lyon Goldsmid	13 Jan 1778	27 Apr 1859	81
27 Apr 1859		2	Francis Henry Goldsmid MP for Reading 1860‑1878 For further information on the death of this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	1 May 1808	2 May 1878	70
2 May 1878 to     7 Jan 1896		3	Julian Goldsmid MP for Honiton 1866‑1868, Rochester 1870‑1880 and St. Pancras South 1885‑1896; PC 1895 Extinct on his death	8 Oct 1838	7 Jan 1896	57
GOLDSMID of Somerhill, Kent
22 Jan 1934	UK		See "D'Avigdor-Goldsmid"
GOLDSMID-STERN-SALOMONS of Broomhill, Kent and Great Cumberland Place, Middlesex
26 Oct 1869	UK	1	David Salomons For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page MP for Greenwich 1851‑1852 and 1859‑1873	22 Nov 1797	18 Jul 1873	75
18 Jul 1873 to     19 Apr 1925		2	David Lionel Salomons (later Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons) Extinct on his death	28 Jun 1851	19 Apr 1925	73
GOOCH of Benacre Hall, Suffolk
4 Nov 1746	GB	1	William Gooch For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page	21 Oct 1681	17 Dec 1751	70
17 Dec 1751		2	Thomas Gooch	19 Jan 1675	14 Feb 1754	79
14 Feb 1754		3	Thomas Gooch	c 1721	10 Sep 1781
10 Sep 1781		4	Thomas Gooch	1745	7 Apr 1826	80
7 Apr 1826		5	Thomas Sherlock Gooch MP for Suffolk 1806‑1830	2 Nov 1767	18 Dec 1851	84
18 Dec 1851		6	Edward Sherlock Gooch MP for Suffolk East 1846‑1856	6 Jun 1802	9 Nov 1856	54
9 Nov 1856		7	Edward Sherlock Gooch	16 May 1843	27 May 1872	29
27 May 1872		8	Francis Robert Sherlock Lambert Gooch For information on this baronet's wife, see the note at the foot of this page	8 Sep 1850	13 Aug 1881	30
13 Aug 1881		9	Alfred Sherlock Gooch	20 Dec 1851	24 Feb 1899	47
24 Feb 1899		10	Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch	10 Jun 1881	7 Jul 1946	65
7 Jul 1946		11	Robert Eric Sherlock Gooch	6 May 1903	13 Nov 1978	75
13 Nov 1978		12	Richard John Sherlock Gooch	22 Mar 1930	19 Apr 1999	69
19 Apr 1999		13	Timothy Robert Sherlock Gooch	7 Dec 1934	9 Apr 2008	73
9 Apr 2008		14	Arthur Brian Sherlock Gooch	1 Jun 1937
GOOCH of Clewer Park, Berks
15 Nov 1866	UK	1	Daniel Gooch MP for Cricklade 1865‑1885	24 Aug 1816	15 Oct 1889	73
15 Oct 1889		2	Henry Daniel Gooch	30 Dec 1841	24 Jun 1897	55
24 Jun 1897		3	Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch	25 May 1869	22 Dec 1926	57
22 Dec 1926		4	Robert Douglas Gooch	19 Sep 1905	6 May 1989	83
6 May 1989		5	Trevor Sherlock Gooch	15 Jun 1915	26 May 2003	87
26 May 2003		6	Miles Peter Gooch	3 Feb 1963
GOODENOUGH of Broadwell and Filkins, Oxon
19 Jan 1943	UK	1	William Macnamara Goodenough	10 Mar 1899	23 May 1951	52
23 May 1951		2	Richard Edmund Goodenough	9 Jun 1925	13 Dec 1996	71
13 Dec 1996		3	William McLernon Goodenough	5 Aug 1954
GOODERE of Burhope, Hereford
5 Dec 1707	GB	1	Edward Goodere MP for Evesham 1708‑1715 and Herefordshire 1722‑1727	1657	29 Mar 1739	81
29 Mar 1739		2	John Dinely Goodere For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	c 1680	24 Jan 1741
24 Jan 1741		3	Samuel Goodere [hanged for murdering his brother, the second baronet] For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	1687	20 Apr 1741	53
20 Apr 1741		4	Edward Dineley-Goodere	1729	Mar 1761	31
Mar 1761 to     Nov 1809		5	John Dineley-Goodere Extinct on his death For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	1729	Nov 1809	80
GOODHART of Portland Place and Holtye, Sussex
1 Jul 1911	UK	1	James Frederic Goodhart	24 Oct 1845	28 Mar 1916	70
28 Mar 1916		2	Ernest Frederic Goodhart	12 Aug 1880	13 Jan 1961	80
13 Jan 1961		3	John Gordon Goodhart	14 Dec 1916	13 Jan 1979	62
13 Jan 1979		4	Robert Anthony Gordon Goodhart	15 Dec 1948
GOODRICKE of Ribston, Yorks
14 Aug 1641	E	1	John Goodricke MP for Yorkshire 1661‑1670	20 Apr 1617	Nov 1670	53
Nov 1670		2	Henry Goodricke MP for Boroughbridge 1673‑1679 and 1685‑1705; PC 1690	24 Oct 1642	5 Mar 1705	62
5 Mar 1705		3	John Goodricke	16 Oct 1654	10 Dec 1705	51
10 Dec 1705		4	Henry Goodricke	8 Sep 1677	21 Jul 1738	60
21 Jul 1738		5	John Goodricke MP for Pontefract 1774‑1780 and Ripon 1787‑1789	20 May 1708	3 Aug 1789	81
3 Aug 1789		6	Henry Goodricke	12 Oct 1765	23 Mar 1802	36
23 Mar 1802		7	Henry James Goodricke	26 Sep 1797	22 Aug 1833	35
22 Aug 1833 to     9 Mar 1839		8	Thomas Francis Henry Goodricke Extinct on his death	24 Sep 1762	9 Mar 1839	76
GOODRICKE of Studley Castle, Warwicks
31 Mar 1835	UK		See "Holyoake-Goodricke"
GOODSON of Waddeton Court, Devon
18 Jan 1922	UK	1	Sir Alfred Lassam Goodson	17 May 1867	29 Nov 1940	73
29 Nov 1940		2	Alfred Lassam Goodson	26 Aug 1893	17 Feb 1986	92
17 Feb 1986		3	Mark Weston Lassam Goodson	12 Dec 1925	1 Feb 2015	89
1 Feb 2015		4	Alan Reginald Goodson	15 May 1960
GOOLD of Old Court, co. Cork
8 Aug 1801	UK	1	Francis Goold For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page		20 Aug 1818
20 Aug 1818		2	George Goold	29 Mar 1778	16 Mar 1870	91
16 Mar 1870		3	Henry Valentine Goold	7 Jul 1803	18 Jun 1893	89
18 Jun 1893		4	James Stephen Goold For further information on this baronet and his younger brother, Vere Goold, see the note at the foot of this page	13 Oct 1848	12 Aug 1926	77
12 Aug 1926		5	George Patrick Goold	9 Jul 1878	Jan 1954	75
Jan 1954		6	George Ignatius Goold	29 Apr 1903	26 Apr 1967	63
26 Apr 1967		7	George Leonard Goold	26 Aug 1923	31 Aug 1997	74
31 Aug 1997		8	George William Goold	25 Mar 1950
GORDON of Letterfourie, Sutherland
28 May 1625	NS	1	Robert Gordon	14 May 1580	Mar 1656	75
Mar 1656		2	Ludovick Gordon	15 Oct 1624	c 1685
c 1685		3	Robert Gordon	7 Mar 1647	5 Sep 1704	57
5 Sep 1704		4	Robert Gordon MP for Caithness 1715‑1722	1696	8 Jan 1772	75
8 Jan 1772		5	Robert Gordon	c 1738	2 Jun 1776
2 Jun 1776		6	William Gordon		5 Mar 1795
5 Mar 1795		7	Alexander Gordon	1715	16 Jan 1797	81
16 Jan 1797		8	James Gordon	1779	24 Dec 1843	64
24 Dec 1843		9	William Gordon	26 Dec 1803	5 Dec 1861	57
5 Dec 1861 to     24 Mar 1908		10	Robert Glendonwyn Gordon On his death the baronetcy became dormant	1824	24 Mar 1908	83
GORDON of Cluny, Aberdeen
31 Aug 1625	NS	1	Alexander Gordon		c 1648
c 1648 to     c 1668		2	John Gordon On his death the baronetcy became dormant		c 1668
GORDON of Lesmore, Aberdeen
2 Sep 1625	NS	1	James Gordon		c 1640
c 1640		2	James Gordon		c 1647
c 1647		3	William Gordon		c 1671
c 1671		4	William Gordon		c 1684
c 1684		5	James Gordon		c 1710
c 1710		6	William Gordon		15 Sep 1750
15 Sep 1750		7	Alexander Gordon		25 Mar 1782
25 Mar 1782 to     9 Nov 1839		8	Francis Gordon On his death the baronetcy became dormant	c 1764	9 Nov 1839
GORDON of Lochinvar, Kirdcudbright
1 May 1626	NS	1	Robert Gordon	c 1565	Nov 1628
Nov 1628		2	John Gordon He was subsequently created Viscount Kenmure in 1633 with which title the baronetcy then merged until it became dormant in 1847	c 1600	12 Sep 1634
GORDON of Embo, Sutherland
18 Jun 1631	NS	1	John Gordon		1649
1649		2	Robert Gordon		16 Oct 1697
16 Oct 1697		3	John Gordon		10 May 1701
10 May 1701		4	William [or John] Gordon		14 Apr 1760
14 Apr 1760		5	John Gordon		24 Jan 1779
24 Jan 1779		6	James Gordon		1786
1786		7	William Gordon	1736	7 Jan 1804	67
7 Jan 1804		8	John Gordon		12 Nov 1804
12 Nov 1804		9	Orford Gordon		19 Jun 1857
19 Jun 1857		10	William Home Gordon	1818	18 Sep 1876	58
18 Sep 1876		11	Home Seton Gordon	21 Mar 1845	11 Dec 1906	61
11 Dec 1906 to     9 Sep 1956		12	Home Seton Charles Montagu Gordon Extinct or dormant on his death	30 Sep 1871	9 Sep 1956	84
GORDON of Haddo, Aberdeen
13 Aug 1642	NS	1	John Gordon	1610	19 Jul 1644	34
19 Jul 1644		2	John Gordon	c 1632	1665
1665		3	George Gordon He was subsequently created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	3 Oct 1637	20 Apr 1720	82
GORDON of Park, Banff
21 Aug 1686	NS	1	John Gordon		Feb 1713
Feb 1713		2	James Gordon		15 Dec 1727
15 Dec 1727		3	William Gordon		5 Jun 1751
5 Jun 1751		4	John James Gordon	26 Mar 1749	11 Dec 1780	31
11 Dec 1780 to     23 Jul 1835		5	John Bury Gordon On his death the baronetcy became dormant	5 Apr 1779	23 Jul 1835	56
GORDON of Dalpholly, Sutherland
3 Feb 1704	NS	1	William Gordon MP for Sutherlandshire 1708‑1713 and 1714‑1727, and Cromartyshire 1741‑1742		9 Jun 1742
9 Jun 1742		2	John Gordon MP for Cromartyshire 1742‑1747 and 1754‑1761	c 1707	25 May 1783
25 May 1783		3	Adam Gordon		2 Nov 1817
2 Nov 1817		4	George Gordon		1840
1840 to     1850		5	Adam Gordon On his death the baronetcy became dormant		1850
GORDON of Afton and Earlston, Kirkcudbright
9 Jul 1706	NS	1	William Gordon	1654	Dec 1718	64
Dec 1718		2	Alexander Gordon	1650	10 Nov 1726	76
10 Nov 1726		3	Thomas Gordon	26 Oct 1685	23 Mar 1769	83
23 Mar 1769		4	John Gordon	20 Dec 1720	17 Oct 1795	74
17 Oct 1795		5	John Gordon	4 Oct 1780	8 Jan 1843	62
8 Jan 1843		6	William Gordon	20 Oct 1830	12 May 1906	75
12 May 1906		7	Charles Edward Gordon	14 Apr 1835	3 Dec 1910	75
3 Dec 1910		8	Robert Charles Gordon	17 Apr 1862	30 Aug 1939	77
30 Aug 1939		9	John Charles Gordon	4 Jan 1901	1982	81
1982		10	Robert James Gordon	17 Aug 1932
GORDON of Newark-upon-Trent, Notts
21 Aug 1764	GB	1	Samuel Gordon		29 Apr 1780
29 Apr 1780 to     9 May 1831		2	Jenison William Gordon Extinct on his death	30 Sep 1747	9 May 1831	83
GORDON of Halkin, Ayr
12 Nov 1813	UK		See "Duff-Gordon"
GORDON of Northcourt, Isle of Wight
5 Dec 1818	UK	1	James Willoughby Gordon MP for Launceston 1830‑1831	21 Oct 1772	4 Jan 1851	78
4 Jan 1851 to     29 Jul 1876		2	Henry Percy Gordon Extinct on his death	21 Oct 1806	29 Jul 1876	69
GORDON of Jamaica, West Indies
19 Jul 1838	UK		See "Smith-Gordon"
GORDON-CUMMING of Altyre, Elgin
21 May 1804	UK	1	Alexander Penrose Cumming (later Cumming‑Gordon) MP for Inverness Burghs 1802‑1803	19 May 1749	10 Feb 1806	56
10 Feb 1806		2	William Gordon Gordon‑Cumming MP for Elgin Burghs 1831‑1832	20 Jul 1787	25 Nov 1854	67
25 Nov 1854		3	Alexander Penrose Gordon‑Cumming	17 Aug 1816	2 Sep 1866	50
2 Sep 1866		4	William Gordon Gordon‑Cumming	20 Jul 1848	20 May 1930	81
20 May 1930		5	Alexander Penrose Gordon‑Cumming	12 Sep 1893	23 Feb 1939	45
23 Feb 1939		6	William Gordon Gordon‑Cumming	19 Jun 1928	10 Jan 2002	73
10 Jan 2002		7	Alexander Penrose Gordon‑Cumming	15 Apr 1954
GORDON-CUMMING-DUNBAR of Northfield, Scotland
11 Apr 1700	NS		See "Dunbar"
GORE of Magherabeg, co. Donegal
2 Feb 1622	I	1	Paul Gore		Sep 1629
Sep 1629		2	Ralph Gore		c 1661
c 1661		3	William Gore		1700
1700		4	Ralph Gore MP [I] for Donegal Borough 1703‑1713, Donegal County 1713‑1727 and Clogher 1727‑1733; Chancellor of the Exchequer [I] 1717; Speaker of the House of Commons [I] 1729	1675	23 Feb 1733	57
23 Feb 1733		5	St. George Gore-St. George MP [I] for Donegal County 1741‑1746	25 Jun 1722	25 Sep 1746	24
25 Sep 1746		6	Ralph Gore, later [1764] 1st Baron Gore, [1768] 1st Viscount Belleisle and [1772] 1st Earl of Ross	23 Nov 1725	Sep 1802	76
Sep 1802		7	Ralph Gore	3 Dec 1758	25 Mar 1842	83
25 Mar 1842		8	St. George Gore	28 Apr 1811	31 Dec 1878	67
31 Dec 1878		9	St. George Ralph Gore	21 Sep 1841	17 Oct 1887	46
17 Oct 1887		10	Ralph St. George Claude Gore	12 May 1877	27 Mar 1961	83
27 Mar 1961		11	Ralph St. George Brian Gore	31 May 1908	28 Jun 1973	65
28 Jun 1973		12	St. George Ralph Gore	14 Dec 1914	13 Nov 1973	58
13 Nov 1973		13	Richard Ralph St. George Gore	19 Nov 1954	30 Oct 1993	38
30 Oct 1993		14	Nigel Hugh St. George Gore	23 Dec 1922	23 Sep 2008	85
23 Sep 2008		15	Hugh Frederick Corbet Gore	31 Dec 1934	12 Oct 2022	87
12 Oct 2022		16	Timothy Milton Corbet Gore	26 Nov 1969
GORE of Castle Gore, co. Mayo
10 Apr 1662	I	1	Arthur Gore		20 Dec 1697
20 Dec 1697		2	Arthur Gore MP [I] for Ballynakill 1703‑1713, Donegal Borough 1713‑1715 and Mayo County 1715‑1742	by Sep 1682	10 Feb 1741
10 Feb 1741		3	Arthur Gore He was subsequently created Earl of Arran in 1762 with which title the baronetcy remains merged	1703	17 Apr 1773	69
GORE of Belleek, Mayo
5 Dec 1868	UK		See "Knox-Gore"
GORE-BOOTH of Artarman, co. Sligo
			For information on the recent history of the Gore‑Booth family, see the note at the foot of this page
30 Aug 1760	I	1	Booth Gore	1712	22 Jul 1773	61
22 Jul 1773		2	Booth Gore		17 Jun 1804
17 Jun 1804		3	Robert Newcomen Booth (Gore-Booth from 30 Aug 1804)		23 Oct 1814
23 Oct 1814		4	Robert Gore-Booth MP for co. Sligo 1850‑1876; Lord Lieutenant Sligo 1868‑1876	25 Aug 1805	21 Dec 1876	71
21 Dec 1876		5	Henry William Gore-Booth	1 Jul 1843	13 Jan 1900	56
13 Jan 1900		6	Josslyn Augustus Richard Gore‑Booth	25 Feb 1869	14 Mar 1944	75
14 Mar 1944		7	Michael Savile Gore-Booth	24 Jul 1908	16 Mar 1987	78
16 Mar 1987		8	Angus Josslyn Gore-Booth	25 Jun 1920	26 Jan 1996	75
26 Jan 1996		9	Josslyn Henry Robert Gore‑Booth	5 Oct 1950
GORGES of Langford, Wilts
25 Nov 1611	E	1	Edward Gorges He was subsequently created Baron Gorges of Dundalk in 1620 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1712		c 1650
GORGES-MEREDYTH of Catharines Grove, Dublin
5 Sep 1787 to     Sep 1821	I	1	Richard Gorges-Meredyth MP [I] for Enniskillen 1768‑1776 and Naas 1787‑1790 Extinct on his death	7 May 1735	Sep 1821	86
GORING of Burton, Sussex
14 May 1622	E	1	William Goring MP for Sussex 1628‑1629		25 Feb 1658
Feb 1658		2	Henry Goring	c 1618	8 Jun 1671
8 Jun 1671 to     29 Feb 1724		3	William Goring Extinct on his death	c 1659	29 Feb 1724
GORING of Highden, Sussex
18 May 1678	E	1	James Bowyer		28 Feb 1680
28 Feb 1680		2	Henry Goring MP for Sussex 1660 and 1685‑1687, and Steyning 1661‑1679	1 May 1622	3 Apr 1702	79
3 Apr 1702		3	Charles Goring MP for Bramber 1689	c 1668	13 Jan 1713
Jan 1713		4	Henry Goring MP for Horsham 1707‑1708 and 1715, and Steyning 1709‑1715	16 Sep 1679	12 Nov 1731	52
12 Nov 1731		5	Charles Mathew Goring	15 May 1706	Aug 1769	63
Aug 1769		6	Harry Goring MP for New Shoreham 1790‑1796	26 Apr 1739	1 Dec 1824	85
1 Dec 1824		7	Charles Foster Goring	11 Jul 1768	26 Mar 1844	75
26 Mar 1844		8	Harry Dent Goring MP for New Shoreham 1832‑1841	30 Dec 1801	19 Apr 1859	57
19 Apr 1859		9	Charles Goring	2 Jun 1828	3 Nov 1884	56
3 Nov 1884		10	Craven Charles Goring For information regarding a dream experienced by this baronet's wife and subsequent events, see the note at the foot of this page	24 Oct 1841	14 Mar 1897	55
14 Mar 1897		11	Harry Yelverton Goring For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	19 Jul 1840	20 Aug 1911	71
20 Aug 1911		12	Forster Gurney Goring	19 Jun 1876	1 May 1956	79
1 May 1956		13	William Burton Nigel Goring	21 Jun 1933	1 Jan 2024	90
1 Jan 2024		14	Richard Harry Goring	10 Sep 1949
GOSCHEN of Beacon Lodge, Hants
17 Jan 1916	UK	1	Sir William Edward Goschen PC 1905	18 Jul 1847	20 May 1924	76
20 May 1924		2	Edward Henry Goschen	9 Mar 1876	7 Aug 1933	57
7 Aug 1933		3	Edward Christian Goschen	2 Sep 1913	8 Mar 2001	87
8 Mar 2001		4	Edward Alexander Goschen	13 Mar 1949
GOSCHEN of Durrington House, Essex
27 Jun 1927 to     7 Jul 1945	UK	1	Sir Harry William Henry Neville Goschen Extinct on his death	1865	7 Jul 1945	80
GOSTWICK of Willington, Beds
25 Nov 1611	E	1	William Gostwick	2 Dec 1565	19 Sep 1615	49
19 Sep 1615		2	Edward Gostwick	1588	20 Sep 1630	42
20 Sep 1630		3	Edward Gostwick	1619	24 Feb 1671	51
24 Feb 1671		4	William Gostwick MP for Bedfordshire 1698‑1713	21 Aug 1650	24 Jan 1720	69
Jan 1720 to     May 1766		5	William Gostwick On his death the baronetcy became either extinct or dormant		6 May 1766
GOUGH of Edgbaston, Warwicks
6 Apr 1728	GB	1	Henry Gough MP for Totnes 1732‑1734 and Bramber 1734‑1741	9 Mar 1709	8 Jun 1774	65
8 Jun 1774		2	Henry Gough (Gough-Calthorpe from 7 May 1788) He was subsequently created Baron Calthorpe in 1796 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1997	1 Jan 1748	16 Mar 1798	50
GOUGH of Synone and Drangan, co. Tipperary
23 Dec 1842	UK	1	Sir Hugh Gough He was subsequently created Viscount Gough in 1849 with which title the baronetcy remained merged until its extinction in 2023	3 Nov 1779	2 Mar 1869	89
GOUGH-CALTHORPE of Elvetham, Hants
1 Jul 1929	UK		See "Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe"
GOULD of London
13 Jun 1660 to     Jan 1664	E	1	Nicholas Gould MP for Fowey 1648‑1653 and 1659‑1660 Extinct on his death		23 Jan 1664
GOULDING of Millicent, co. Kildare
22 Aug 1904	UK	1	William Joshua Goulding	7 Mar 1856	12 Jul 1925	69
12 Jul 1925		2	William Lingard Amphlett Goulding	5 Oct 1883	20 Jun 1935	51
20 Jun 1935		3	William Basil Goulding	4 Nov 1909	16 Jan 1982	72
16 Jan 1982		4	William Lingard Walter Goulding	11 Jul 1940
GOULDING of Wargrave Hall, Oxon
25 Jun 1915	UK	1	Edward Alfred Goulding He was subsequently created Baron Wargrave in 1922 with which title the baronetcy then merged until its extinction in 1936	5 Nov 1862	17 Jul 1936	73
GOWER of Stittenham, Yorks
2 Jun 1620	E	1	Thomas Gower	c Jul 1584	c 1655
c 1655		2	Thomas Gower MP for Malton 1661‑1672	c 1605	3 Sep 1672
3 Sep 1672		3	Thomas Gower	c 1666	8 Oct 1689
8 Oct 1689		4	William Leveson-Gower MP for Newcastle under Lyme 1675‑1681 and 1689‑1691 and Shropshire 1681‑1685	c 1647	22 Dec 1691
22 Dec 1691		5	John Leveson-Gower He was subsequently created Baron Gower in 1703 with which title the baronetcy then merged. The baronetcy is now merged in the Dukedom of Sutherland	7 Jan 1675	31 Aug 1709	34
GRAAFF of Cape Town, South Africa
6 Feb 1911	UK	1	David Pieter de Villiers Graaff	30 Mar 1859	13 Apr 1931	72
13 Apr 1931		2	de Villiers Graaff	8 Dec 1913	4 Oct 1999	85
4 Oct 1999		3	David de Villiers Graaff	3 May 1940	24 Jan 2015	74
24 Jan 2015		4	de Villiers Graaff	16 Jul 1970
GRACE of Minchenden House, Middlesex
11 May 1795	GB	1	Richard Grace Gamon For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this baronetcy, see the note at the foot of this page MP for Winchester 1784‑1812	14 Aug 1748	8 Apr 1818	69
8 Apr 1818		2	William Grace		27 Jan 1841
27 Jan 1841		3	William Grace	6 Nov 1817	23 Mar 1887	69
23 Mar 1887		4	Percy Raymond Grace	11 Aug 1831	16 Aug 1903	72
16 Aug 1903		5	Valentine Raymond Grace	11 Jan 1877	3 May 1945	68
3 May 1945 to     16 Apr 1977		6	Raymond Eustace Grace Extinct on his death	6 Jan 1903	16 Apr 1977	74
GRAEME of Holly Grove, Berks
18 Dec 1783	GB		See "Hamond-Graeme"
GRAHAM of Braco, Perth
28 Sep 1625	NS	1	William Graham		c 1635
c 1635		2	John Graham		c 1646
c 1646		3	William Graham		c 1684
c 1684 to     c 1700		4	James Graham On his death the baronetcy became dormant but has since been assumed by the Dukes of Montrose	c 1661	c 1700
GRAHAM of Esk, Cumberland
29 Mar 1629	E	1	Richard Graham MP for Carlisle 1626 and 1628‑1629		28 Jan 1654
28 Jan 1654		2	George Graham	c 1624	19 Mar 1658
19 Mar 1658		3	Richard Graham, later [1681] 1st Viscount Preston	24 Sep 1648	22 Nov 1695	47
22 Nov 1695		4	Edward Graham, 2nd Viscount Preston	1679	1710	31
1710		5	Charles Graham, 3rd Viscount Preston	25 Mar 1706	23 Feb 1739	32
23 Feb 1739		6	William Graham	1730	21 Sep 1774	44
21 Sep 1774		7	Charles Graham	11 Nov 1764	26 Nov 1795	31
26 Nov 1795		8	Robert Graham	1 Nov 1769	27 Jan 1852	82
27 Jan 1852		9	Edward Graham	1 Jan 1820	27 May 1864	44
27 May 1864		10	Robert James Stuart Graham	2 Dec 1845	12 May 1917	71
12 May 1917		11	Montrose Stuart Graham	20 May 1875	16 Jan 1939	63
16 Jan 1939		12	Montrose Stuart Graham	4 Aug 1904	1975	70
1975		13	Ralph Wolfe Graham	14 Jul 1908	1988	79
1988		14	Ralph Stuart Graham	5 Nov 1950
GRAHAM of Norton Conyers, Yorks
17 Nov 1662	E	1	Richard Graham	11 Mar 1636	21 Dec 1711	75
Dec 1711		2	Reginald Graham	30 Jul 1670	20 May 1728	57
20 May 1728		3	Bellingham Graham	20 Aug 1702	1 Apr 1730	27
1 Apr 1730		4	Reginald Graham	16 May 1704	29 Oct 1755	51
29 Oct 1755		5	Bellingham Graham	14 Jun 1729	3 Oct 1790	61
3 Oct 1790		6	Bellingham Graham	c 1764	13 Apr 1796
13 Apr 1796		7	Bellingham Reginald Graham	4 Nov 1789	15 Jun 1866	76
15 Jun 1866		8	Reginald Henry Graham	22 Apr 1835	27 Dec 1920	85
27 Dec 1920		9	Reginald Guy Graham	28 May 1878	2 Jun 1940	62
2 Jun 1940		10	Richard Bellingham Graham	17 May 1912	29 Jan 1982	69
29 Jan 1982		11	James Bellingham Graham	8 Oct 1940
GRAHAM of Gartmore, Stirling
28 Jun 1665	NS	1	William Graham		Dec 1684
Dec 1684 to     12 Jul 1708		2	John Graham Extinct on his death		12 Jul 1708
GRAHAM of Netherby, Cumberland
15 Jan 1783	GB	1	James Graham MP for Ripon 1798‑1807	22 Apr 1761	13 Apr 1824	62
13 Apr 1824		2	James Robert George Graham MP for Hull 1818‑1820, St. Ives 1820‑1821, Carlisle 1826‑1829 and 1852‑1861, Cumberland 1829‑1832, Cumberland East 1832‑1837, Pembroke 1838‑1841, Dorchester 1841‑1847 and Ripon 1847‑1852; First Lord of the Admiralty 1830‑1834 and 1852‑1855; Home Secretary 1841‑1846; PC 1830	1 Jun 1792	25 Oct 1861	69
25 Oct 1861		3	Frederick Ulric Graham For further information on this baronet, see the note at the foot of this page	2 Apr 1820	8 Mar 1888	67
8 Mar 1888		4	Richard James Graham For information on the death of his widow, see the note at the foot of this page	24 Feb 1859	26 Aug 1932	73
26 Aug 1932		5	Frederick Fergus Graham MP for Cumberland North 1926‑1935 and Darlington 1951‑1959; Lord Lieutenant Cumberland 1958‑1968	10 Mar 1893	1 Aug 1978	85
1 Aug 1978		6	Charles Spencer Richard Graham Lord Lieutenant Cumberland 1983‑1994	16 Jul 1919	11 Jul 1997	77
11 Jul 1997		7	James Fergus Surtees Graham	29 Jul 1946
GRAHAM of Kirkstall, Yorks
3 Oct 1808	UK	1	James Graham MP for Cockermouth 1802‑1805 and 1806‑1812, Wigtown 1805‑1806 and Carlisle 1812‑1825	18 Nov 1753	21 Mar 1825	71
21 Mar 1825		2	Sandford Graham MP for Aldeburgh 1812 and Ludgershall 1812‑1815, 1818‑1826 and 1830‑1832	10 Mar 1788	14 Sep 1852	64
14 Sep 1852		3	Sandford Graham	21 Feb 1821	2 May 1875	54
2 May 1875		4	Lumley Graham	1828	25 Oct 1890	62
25 Oct 1890 to     9 May 1895		5	Cyril Clerke Graham Lieutenant Governor of Grenada 1875‑1877 Extinct on his death	6 Mar 1834	9 May 1895	61
GRAHAM of Larbert House and Househill, Stirling
4 Dec 1906	UK	1	John Hatt Noble Graham	14 Aug 1837	25 May 1926	88
25 May 1926		2	John Frederick Noble Graham	25 Jul 1864	25 Nov 1936	72
25 Nov 1936		3	John Reginald Noble Graham VC For further information regarding the award of this baronet's Victoria Cross, see the note at the foot of this page	17 Sep 1892	6 Dec 1980	88
6 Dec 1980		4	John Alexander Noble Graham	15 Jul 1926	11 Dec 2019	93
11 Dec 2019		5	Andrew John Noble Graham	21 Oct 1956
GRAHAM of Dromore, co. Down
23 Jan 1964	UK	1	Sir Clarence Johnston Graham	8 May 1900	22 Dec 1966	66
22 Dec 1966 to     2 Nov 2020		2	John Moodie Graham Extinct on his death	3 Apr 1938	2 Nov 2020	82
GRAHAM-MONTGOMERY of Stanhope, Peebles
16 Jul 1801	UK		See "Montgomery"
GRAHAM-MOON of Portman Square, London
4 May 1855	UK		See "Moon"

	Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd baronet
	Sir Francis died as a result of injuries that he received when alighting from a train, as reported in The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle on 4 May 1878:-
	We regret to record the death, under very painful circumstances, of Sir Francis Goldsmid, M.P. for Reading, which occurred on Thursday night. Sir Francis was a passenger by the Southampton train on the South-Western Railway, due in London at 7.53. On arriving at Waterloo Junction, the hon. baronet proceeded to alight, and in doing so slipped down between the train and the platform. The train had not quite stopped, and the unfortunate gentleman was dragged along with it for some yards. On being extricated it was found that his foot was badly crushed, and that he had sustained other injuries. As speedily as possible he was placed on a stretcher and removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where his case received every attention at the hands of the house-surgeon, Mr. Makin. In addition to the injury to his foot, it turned out that his chest had also been much crushed and the ribs fractured. From these injuries and from the shock to the system, death resulted within 40 minutes of his admission to the hospital. Before his death he stated to the house-surgeon that when he alighted from the train he thought it had stopped, inasmuch as one of the officials had opened the carriage door for him … Sir Francis stated by "Debrett" to have been the first member of the Jewish faith called to the English Bar, and also the first person of that religion who was made a Q.C.
	The Goldsmid family appears to have suffered more than its fair share of violent deaths over the years - indeed, the article below suggests the existence of a family curse. This article is taken from the Southland Times [published in Invercargill, New Zealand] on 24 September 1878, possibly reprinted from The London Mayfair.
	… We have had brought under our notice some curious facts in connection with the private history of the distinguished family of which the late baronet was the head. It is a tradition in the family, and generally with the Jews settled in England, that for nearly a hundred years a fatal spell has overhung the Goldsmids; and we are bound to say that, in a manner which is doubtless a coincidence but it is nevertheless remarkable, the spell has not failed to work through several generations.
	It appears … that during the latter part of the eighteenth century there lived in London a Jewish Rabbi alleged to be gifted with those magical powers many instances of which are to be found recorded in the Old Testament. This seer was known as Rabbi de Falk. He performed many deeds of wonder which might reasonably excite the professional jealousy of Messrs Maskelyne and Cook; but what we are chiefly concerned with is his connection to the Goldsmid family. When he died he left to Mr. Aaron Goldsmid, great-grandfather of the late baronet, Sir Francis, a sealed packet, with strict injunctions that it should be carefully preserved, but never opened. By way of enforcing this request he informed the old Dutch merchant who founded the Goldsmid family in England that if his injunctions were obeyed he and his descendants would bask in the sun of prosperity till the coming of the Messiah. If his injunctions were disregarded, ill-fortune would finally overtake each successive representative of the race. Old Aaron Goldsmid kept the packet, holding it sacred for some years, but finally, in an evil moment, curiosity overcame his reverence for the dead kabbalist and he opened the packet. A few hours after he was found dead [in 1782]. On the floor near him were the contents of the package which proved to be a small piece of parchment covered with hieroglyphics and cabbalistic figures.
	At the time of his death, Aaron Goldsmid had founded a great fortune and a prosperous family. Amongst the latter he divided his wealth. Two of the sons - Benjamin and Abraham - entered upon business as money brokers, and speedily established a colossal connection. They were omnipotent on the Stock Exchange [and] were popular in the country … Like all his family, Benjamin was a man of boundless generosity and judicious philanthropy. He founded a Naval College, and was never tired of exercising private liberality. But as he advanced in life he began to feel the curse of the kabbalist. He grew despondent, scented ruin from afar, and, on the 15th of April, 1808, being fifty-five years of age, honored, powerful, and esteemed - he died by his own hand.
	Brother Abraham was now left to represent and guide the fortunes of the Goldsmid family. For five years he managed with accustomed success the great business of Goldsmid Brothers and in 1810 he joined the house of Baring in contracting for a Ministerial loan of fourteen millions. The bears came down on the fold of the loan and succeeded in depreciating the scrip. These were circumstances which came in the usual way of business and would, a few years earlier, have been met with the skill, firmness, and infinite resource which had already lifted Abraham to the front rank of financiers. But the curse of the kabbalist was upon him. He shrank from an encounter with adverse circumstances. He hesitated, blundered, and - always losing - presently sank into a fit of despondency from which it was impossible to arouse him. A sum of half a million had to be forthcoming on the 28th September, 1810. In the state of the market, Abraham Goldsmid did not know where to put his hand on the money. He shrank from the impending disgrace, and when the hour struck at which the cash was due, it was discovered that Abraham Goldsmid had paid another and still more terrible debt, for he was dead [having shot himself through the head while in his garden].
	After this the Goldsmids fell from high estate in the city; but not for long. A greater than Aaron or Benjamin arose in the person of Isaac, a nephew of Benjamin and grandson of the founder of the English house. Isaac entering into business in the city, speedily amassed a fortune, and became known as one of the greatest financiers in the world. Having made his own fortune he maintained the family reputation for aiding in good works, and became largely engaged in philanthropic and educational undertakings … At sixty years of age he retired from business, having heaped up enormous wealth and secured the honour of an English baronetcy and a Portuguese peerage. He seems, among other good things to have staved off the curse of the defunct de Falk, and though he sunk into childishness during the last years of his life, that is a calamity which poor humanity is subject to when it sees fourscore.
	But with the next heir the curse showed itself with added malignity. The late baronet, Sir Francis, was the son of Sir Isaac, and everybody knows how he was struck down by the accident at the Waterloo Station on the 3rd of May. Whether the accident was due to defective arrangements on the part of the railway company, or whether the unappeased manes [i.e. the spirits of the dead] of the mysterious Rabbi still remained unsatisfied, we leave to the judgment of the intelligent reader.
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Salomons (later Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons) created in 1869
	From the London Gazette of 8 October 1869 (issue 23544, page 5446):-
	The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto David Salomons, of Broom Hill, in the parish of Tunbridge, in the county of Kent, and of Great Cumberland-place, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. one of the Aldermen of the City of London, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainder, in default of such issue male, to his nephew David Lionel Salomons, Esq. and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Gooch created in 1746
	From the London Gazette of 1 November 1746 (issue 8585, page 1):-
	The King has been pleased to grant unto William Gooch, Esq; and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten; and in Default of such Issue, to his Brother the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Bishop of Norwich, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, the Dignity of a Baronet of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
	Sarah Annie, Lady Gooch, wife of Sir Francis Robert Sherlock Lambert Gooch, 8th baronet
	On 16 July 1872, Sarah Annie Sutherland married Sir Francis Robert Sherlock Gooch, 8th baronet. A fortnight after the marriage, she gave birth to a son who died at the age of four months. Lady Gooch was the central player in a very sad story of attempted fraud.
	In November 1878, she and a nurse named Ann Walker were charged with conspiracy to defraud her husband by passing off a child as being his, when it was not the case. The following account of the subsequent trial is taken from the North Wales Chronicle of 14 December 1878:-
	… it appears that Lady Gooch was apprehensive that her "lord and master" was not destined to walk this terrestrial sphere for a very long period, and that by his death his income would fall into a collateral branch of the family, leaving to Lady Gooch an empty title. Her ladyship was childless, and the only pledge which she had given to the world had been called away in its infantile years. Sir Francis mourned the loss of his child, and grieved much that he had no son and heir. Lady Gooch, according to the evidence of her friends, seems to have imagined that Sir Francis treated her somewhat coldly because she bore him no "bonny bairn" to cheer his paternal eye, and accordingly a strange fancy took possession of her mind. A child she would have, if she even adopted one, and she fancied that she could persuade Sir Francis that the happy day had arrived when he could once more call himself "father". For this purpose she simulated pregnancy; but Sir Francis was evidently incredulous, and was little inclined to put faith in the "interesting condition" of his wife. Her ladyship was not daunted by her husband's incredulity, and she appears to have entered into a conspiracy with herself to further her ends. She journeyed to an infants' home in Great Coram-street, and made application for a child. She was indifferent whether it was a boy or a girl, and stated that she wanted a child in order to win back the affection of her husband. She wished to adopt a child, and as her social position appeared to be a guarantee of its being properly cared for, the proprietress of the infants' home arranged to procure her one. Henceforth the idea of having a child appears to have haunted and distorted the mind of the poor lady. She mentioned it to her companion, her servants, her medical advisers, and almost to every one she met, informing one and all that she was about to be confined. Her companion told her of the foolishness of the ideas she was labouring under, pointed out to her that she was nursing a delusion, and that, in fact, she was rendering herself liable for fraud. The medical gentlemen informed her that they could take no part in a conspiracy, and strongly advised her to disabuse herself of the belief that she could impose a stranger's child upon her husband as her own. To all these warnings and counsels Lady Gooch turned a deaf ear, and followed out her foolish intentions. She hired a nurse, purchased baby linen, and took special apartments in the Grosvenor Hotel. The long expected prodigy was procured, smuggled into the hotel, and Lady Gooch went through the farce of professing to have become a mother according to the laws of nature. A medical gentleman was sent for, and asked to certify that the child was born to Sir Francis Gooch. He laughed, and informed her ladyship that the child was over a fortnight old. Her ladyship's maid was requested to telegraph the birth of a son to Sir Francis. She very wisely declined, and Lady Gooch, her nurse and adopted infant were left to carry on an evident farce. Meanwhile Sir Francis had put the law in operation, and poor Lady Gooch was awakened from her maternal imaginings by being summoned to the police court on a charge of conspiring to palm off a strange child on her husband as his own. The prosecution charged Lady Gooch with having expressed a determination to have a son in order that, at the death of her husband, she might not be left destitute, as the son would become a ward in Chancery, and a large allowance would be made for the child and mother during its infancy. It was also alleged that her ladyship was anxious to procure a son so as to prevent the estates passing to another branch. The defence admitted that the statements of Lady Gooch were false, and very naturally suggested that her conduct and explanation to the doctors, to her companions, and others, left it quite clear that her tale was sure to be discovered as an imposition. The prosecution at the closure of the police court proceedings, begged the magistrate not to proceed any further with the case, as Sir Francis was satisfied that the evidence before the Court would effectually prevent Lady Gooch from palming off the strange child on her husband, that the child was sent back to the institution, and that they sought no criminal issues. The magistrate, however, deemed it his duty to send the case for trial [with the result that the grand jury threw out the bill]. There can be little doubt that Lady Gooch was fostering a weird hallucination, that her punishment is already severe, by the fact that she has been evidently awakened to a true sense of her folly, that the ends of justice have been obtained, and that the position of Lady Gooch in the future, under the most favourable circumstances, will be of itself a punishment more than commensurate with her folly.
	In March 1879, Lady Gooch sued her husband for divorce on the ground of his adultery. Sir Francis denied the adultery and when the case was called, the Court was told that an arrangement had been reached between the parties, and as a result, the case did not proceed. Lady Gooch died some seven months later, on 28 October 1879. No age is given for her in any of the death notices, but I doubt whether she would have reached her 30th birthday. She was correct in believing that her husband was not destined to live a long life - he died 13 August 1881, aged 30.
	Sir John Dinely Goodere, 2nd baronet and Sir Samuel Goodere, 3rd baronet
	From the Newgate Calendar:-
	Sir John Dinely Goodere succeeded his father, Sir Edward, in the possession of an estate of three thousand pounds a year, situated near Evesham in Worcestershire. His brother Samuel, was bred to the sea, and at length was advanced to the rank of captain of a man-of-war.
	Sir John married the daughter of a merchant and received twenty thousand pounds as a marriage portion. But mutual unhappiness was the consequence of this connection, for the husband was brutal in his manners, and the wife perhaps not strictly observant of the sacred vow she had taken; for she was too frequently visited by Sir Robert Jasen; and after recriminations between the married pair, Sir John brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas for criminal conversation [i.e. adultery], and five hundred pounds' damages were awarded by the jury.
	Sir John's next step was to indict his lady for a conspiracy, and, a conviction following, she was fined and imprisoned for a year in the King's Bench. He likewise petitioned for a divorce; but the matter being heard in the House of Lords, his petition was thrown out.
	Sir John having no children, Captain Samuel Goodere formed very sanguine expectations of possessing the estate; but finding that the brother had docked the entail in favour of his sister's children, the Captain sought the most diabolical means of revenge for the supposed injury.
	While the Captain's vessel lay in the port of Bristol, Sir John went to that city on business; and being engaged to dine with an attorney, named Smith, the Captain prevailed on the latter to permit him to make one of their company, under pretence of being reconciled to his brother. Mr Smith consented, and used his good offices to accommodate the difference, and a sincere reconciliation appeared to have taken place.
	This visit was made on the 10th of January, 1741 [Old Style; 23 January New Style], and the Captain, having previously concerted his measures, brought some sailors on shore with him, and left them at a public-house, in waiting to seize the baronet in the evening. Accordingly, when the company broke up, the Captain attended his brother through the streets, and when they came opposite the public-house the seamen ran out, seized Sir John and conveyed him to a boat that had been appointed to wait for his reception. As soon as the victim was in the boat he said to his brother "I know you have intention to murder me, and if you are ready to do it, let me beg that it be done here without giving yourself the trouble to take me on board." To which the Captain said "No, brother; I am going to prevent you rotting on land; but however, I would have you make your peace with God this night."
	Being put on board, Sir John appealed to the seamen for help; but the Captain put a stop to any efforts they might have made to assist him, by saying that he was a lunatic, and brought on board to prevent his committing an act of suicide.
	[Matthew] Mahony and [Charles] White now conveyed him to the purser's cabin, which the Captain guarded with a drawn sword, while the other villains attempted to strangle him with a handkerchief which they found in his pocket, the wretched victim crying out "Murder!" and beseeching them not to kill him, and offering all he possessed as a compensation for his life. As they could not strangle him with the handkerchief the Captain gave them a cord, with which Mahony dispatched him, while White held his hands and trod on his stomach. The Captain now retired to his cabin, and on the murder being committed the perpetrators of it went to him and told him "the job was done"; on which he gave them money, and bade them seek their safety in flight.
	The attorney with whom the brothers had dined having heard of the commission of a murder, and knowing of the former animosity of the Captain to his brother, immediately conjectured who it was that had fallen a sacrifice; on which he went to the Mayor of Bristol, who issued his warrant to the water-bailiff, who, going on board, found that the lieutenant and cooper had prudently confined the Captain to his cabin.
	The offender, being brought on shore, was committed to Newgate, and Mahony and White, being taken a few hours afterwards, were lodged in the same prison. At the sessions held at Bristol on the 26th of March, 1741, these offenders were brought to trial, and, being convicted on the fullest evidence, received sentence of death. They were hanged near the Hot Wells, Bristol, on the 20th of April, 1741, within view of the place where the ship lay when the murder was committed.
	Sir John Dineley-Goodere, 5th baronet
	The following is extracted from The Emperor of the United States of America and Other Magnificent British Eccentrics by Catherine Caufield (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981)
	Sir John's primary object in life was the retrieval of £300,000 which he believed, on no very good authority, could be his for the relatively small expense of a lawsuit. By 1770 his position had become desperate. He was forced to sell what was left of the family estate at Burhope in Herefordshire and decided to get the money he needed to pursue his claim through the courts by marrying a rich woman.
	Friends had managed to procure him a pension as a Poor Knight of Windsor and it was from the illustrious address of Windsor Castle that he began his campaign. The ancient and honourable name of Dinely was worth, he reckoned, a dowry of at least £10,000. But should the lucky woman he chose to marry be young and pretty he might lower his price by £500. He studied the market closely and made a list of eligible women, with notes on their fortunes, faces and figures.
	He lived very simply while at Windsor, saving what money he had for his thrice-yearly visits to London. These he announced by means of advertisements placed in the fashionable papers, replies 'to be left at the Admiralty coffee-house till called for, post-paid or your letter will not be received'. His reputation spread and it was not long before Sir John was surrounded by women whenever he appeared at the theatre or at Vauxhall Gardens, his two favourite haunts. Dressed in faded velvet breeches, a coat and waistcoat of a cut popular years before, and a powdered wig which was secured to his head by means of a chin strap, he cut a conspicuous, if not a dashing, figure.
	As soon as he spied a likely candidate for matrimony, Sir John would approach her, bow deeply, and without a word present her with a piece of paper from a stock which he carried with him, setting forth the terms of his romantic proposition. His search for a wife continued without success until his death. More than once he discovered that the object of his affections was a man in disguise, but neither practical jokes nor his years of failure discouraged him from continuing his search.
	A typical advertisement, published in the Ipswich Journal on 21 August 1802, reads as follows:-
	To the angelic fair of true English breed: - worthy notice. Sir John Dinely, of Windsor Castle, recommends himself and his ample fortune to any angelic beauty of good breed, fit to become, and willing to be, a mother of a noble heir, and keep up the name of ancient family, ennobled by deeds of arms and ancestral renown. Ladies at a certain period of life need not apply, as heirship is the object of the mutual contract offered by the ladies' sincere admirer, Sir John Dinely. Fortune favours the bold. Such ladies as this advertisement may induce to apply, or send their agents (but not servants or matrons) may direct to me at the Castle, Windsor. Happiness and pleasure are agreeable objects and should be regarded as well as honour. The lady who shall thus become my wife will be a Baronetess, and rank accordingly as Lady Dinely of Windsor. Goodwill and favour to all ladies of Great Britain; pull no caps on his account, but favour him with your smiles, and paeans of pleasure await your steps.
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	A more comprehensive account of Sir John appeared in the Australian monthly magazine Parade in its issue for December 1970:-
	In the closing years of the 18th century one of the sights of the ancient royal town of Windsor was the daily perambulation through the streets of Sir John Dinely Goodere, baronet, in search of a wife. With a penny loaf in one pocket of his shabby coat, a battered cocked hat on his bewigged head and a bundle of leaflets in his hand, Sir John set out each morning from his pensioner's quarters in Windsor Castle. Every time he met an unattached woman, "be it a tittering girl of 16 or a personable widow", the elderly baronet made a courtly bow and pressed upon her one of his leaflets. The papers were addressed to "the angelic fair of the true British breed" and cordially invited the recipient to consider the enormous advantages of becoming Lady Dineley Goodere. Not only would she have the honour of providing an heir for the house of Goodere, but her money would enable Sir John to claim an inheritance of £375,000 out of which he had been cheated long ago. However, the ladies of Windsor resisted all the baronet's blandishments and Sir John was doomed to end his eccentric existence still heirless and unmarried. And with him ended a family whose record of murder, madness and tragedy wrote one of the most lurid chapters into the annals of the English aristocracy.
	The first to achieve notoriety was Sir Edward Goodere, squire of Burhope, in Herefordshire, who was born about 1660 and wed the heiress of the Dineley estates in the neighbouring county of Worcestershire. Sir Edward, a man of black temper and ferocious family pride, claimed to be descended from the Plantagenets and spent most of his life in quarrels and law suits. He was celebrated for riding his horses to death on the hunting field, beating his servants like dogs, and for his enormous feats of eating, drinking and physical strength.
	He also developed an insane hatred for his three sons, all of whom died violently - the eldest in a duel, the second by murder, and the third on the gallows. After the duel swept away his eldest heir in 1708, Sir Edward was left with John, a drunken wastrel, and his younger brother, Samuel, an officer in the Royal Navy. Captain Samuel Goodere, in keeping with the family tradition was a half‑crazy tyrant, who drove his seamen to the verge of mutiny before he was court-martialled and dismissed his ship in 1719. For some years, Sir Edward and his precious pair of sons managed to patch up their feuds until Samuel ran off with, and married, a farmer's penniless daughter about 1725.
	Disowned by his outraged parent, Samuel applied to return to active naval service. After some delay because of his previous record, he was given command of another ship. He had just narrowly escaped a second court-martial for negligence and brutality when, in 1739, news of his father's death sent him hurrying ashore to claim his share of the Goodere inheritance. To his fury, he found that the new baronet, his brother John, had already mortgaged most of the estate to the hilt and was rapidly losing the rest in an orgy of gambling and dissipation. Since John had no children, Captain Samuel was his heir, but it was obvious that after a few more years of the baronet's spendthrift wildness there would be nothing to inherit. The only solution was to get rid of Sir John as quickly as possible. Coldly and deliberately, the captain began planning his brother's murder. [Then follows a description of John's murder and Samuel's subsequent hanging - for further details, see the note immediately preceding this one.]
	Samuel left 12-year-old twin sons, Edward and John, of whom Edward became the new baronet because he first saw the light of day a few minutes before his brother. Left with only the remnants of a once princely estate, the boys were reared in obscurity by a guardian at the decaying old mansion of Burhope, in Herefordshire. Before long the fatal streak of madness appeared in both of them - mere eccentricity in John, but soon degenerating into violent mania in his elder brother.
	Eventually, Sir Edward was locked up in a private asylum, where he spent his days inventing flying machines, trying to teach ducks to speak, and writing letters to his "imperial cousin", the Emperor of China. He died in 1761, and Sir John Dinely Goodere, aged 32, became the last and perhaps the most celebrated of all the baronets of his noble house. Nine years later, with not even the ancestral home of Burhope left from the wreck of his fortune, Sir John settled in Windsor, where he lived for the rest of his days.
	At first he was only a minor curiosity, a solitary figure, who emerged from his cheap lodgings only to make his daily purchases of bread, milk and farthing candles. He shunned company, and if anyone entered a tavern where he was taking a lonely dram of brandy, he would immediately pour the liquor on the floor and hastily shuffle out. Yet, with the passing years, the recluse of Windsor blossomed into a character whose eccentricities attracted visitors from all over the neighbourhood and as far away as London.
	Summer and winter, he appeared in a large, tattered old cloak "from which appeared a pair of incredibly skinny legs encased in dirty silk stockings and ending in large wooden shoes". In one hand he brandished a voluminous umbrella to beat off the jeering boys who followed him about; in the other hand was usually a half‑gnawed loaf of bread. On royal occasions, when King George III came to reside in Windsor Castle, the baronet was always in front of the loyal subjects who gathered at the castle gate to welcome the sovereign. Then Sir John would be clad in an embroidered coat "of incredible antiquity", velvet breeches, a silk waistcoat and a great powdered wig that concealed half his face.
	He also became more sociable and, instead of avoiding company, would stop people in the street and harangue them at tedious length about his illustrious ancestry. At various times he claimed to be descended from Julius Caesar, King Arthur of the Round Table, the ancient Princes of Wales, and William the Conqueror. Eventually he was obsessed with the notion that he had been cheated out of the vast Dinely estates of his grandmother, which he calculated were now worth, with compound interest, at least £375,000.
	Too poor to start law suits, he badgered the government with petitions until at last one of them came to the notice of the Prime Minister, Lord North. North charitably arranged for the baronet to be enrolled among the "poor knights of Windsor", the little band of royal pensioners who were given food and lodging within the castle walls. It was then that the 50-year-old Sir John Goodere launched on the famous wife-hunting campaign that was to convert him from a local oddity into a national celebrity. One of his objects was to raise money to prosecute his law suits. But much more important was the necessity to provide himself with an heir so that the name of Goodere should not become extinct.
	The baronet began his quest modestly enough by stopping any presentable single woman in the streets of Windsor and politely asking her to visit his quarters and discuss matrimony. When all these proposals were rejected with bursts of laughter, expressions of outraged modesty or threats to call the constables, Sir John took more elaborate measures. He had pamphlets printed, in which he pointed out to "all virtuous and single ladies of fashionable degree or otherwise", the inestimable advantages of becoming Lady Goodere.
	The recipients were invited to meet Sir John at a pastrycook's shop in Windsor, where he would be in attendance for three hours a day to receive their applications. Those too shy to keep an assignation in a public shop might send a discreet agent to the poor knights' quarters in the castle, where Sir John would consider their proposals.
	Next, the frustrated baronet was reduced to advertising in the London newspapers, announcing that on one evening each month he would appear in the Vauxhall Gardens to "attend to any supplications by the fair sex". The only result was that he was driven nearly mad by crowds of jeering trollops, threatened with a duel by a jealous lover, and chased out of the gardens beneath a hail of rubbish.
	Meanwhile, sightseers came from all over Britain to enjoy the spectacle of the celebrated Sir John Goodere on his endless rounds in search of a wife. Crowds trailed him through the streets, obscene ballads were sung about him, and even King George complained that "the damned old crow" aroused more excitement in the town than the monarch himself.
	But matrimony continued to elude the baronet for the rest of his days. In November 1809 he died, still wifeless, in Windsor Castle. And with him the crazy and tragedy-haunted family of Goodere came to an end.
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Goold created in 1801
	From the "London Gazette" of 4 July 1801 (issue 15382, page 754):-
	The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to … Francis Goold, of Old Court, in the County of Cork, Esq; with Remainder to the Heirs Male of the Body of his Father George Goold, late of Old Court, in the said County of Cork, Esq; deceased.
	Sir James Stephen Goold, 4th baronet and his brother, Vere Thomas St. Leger Goold
	According to an article which appeared in the Adelaide [South Australia] Advertiser on 9 September 1907, Sir James's younger brother, Vere Thomas St. Leger Goold, claimed the baronetcy, notwithstanding the fact that his older brother was still alive at the time. In any event, Sir James Goold also had three sons and two grandsons, each of whom took precedence in the line of succession. It should also be pointed out that Sir James Goold and his family lived in South Australia at the time the article was published, and the paper would therefore be expected to have a better knowledge of the family than most.
	The article states that:-
	How [Vere] Goold claimed his title to his brother's baronetcy, though Sir James Stephen Goold is still alive, forms a curious narrative. Even if Sir James were dead, Vere Goold would not be justified in using the title of 'Sir Vere', as there are three sons and one [actually two] grandsons of his brother who would take precedence of him. The family of the baronet are all residing in Australia, but are not in a position to "keep up" the title.
	In 1900 a paragraph appeared in Canadian and Australian papers, stating that in consequence of the death of the holder of the title, Mr. Vere St. Leger Goold, of Montreal, had succeeded to it. The only foundation for the story was the fact that a brother named Frederick Edward Michael Goold, who came between James Stephen and Vere St. Leger, died in a hospital in Australia, leaving no heirs. [While this person does not appear in Burke's Peerage, he is shown as the heir to the baronetcy in the 1899 edition of Dod's Peerage, even though each of Sir James's three sons had been born by that time - but this was not known to the editors of these peerage reference works.]
	Vere St. Leger appears to have fastened on this fact, and circulated a statement that it was the elder brother, holder of the title, who had died without family. In May, 1901, he wrote to the editors of the leading books of reference, telling them of his brother's death. While professing anxiety not to use the title "until proofs come to hand", he said he would like to establish his position as baronet, "for my wife's sake". He also informed the editors that he had no children, and that he travelled about a good deal. His friends, he explained, wished to call him 'Sir Vere', but he told everyone that it would be "somewhat premature" to do so. He wound up by ingenuously stating that he had not seen or heard anything of his brother, James Stephen Goold, since the year 1863 [the year James Stephen Goold migrated to Australia].
	This last statement was denounced the following year by the real baronet, Vere St. Leger's elder brother, as a falsehood. He had also seen the newspaper paragraphs and he wrote to the editors to inform them that, while he was not in a position to keep up the title, he still wished to preserve the rights of his three sons and any children they might have. As for his brother's statement that he had not seen or heard of him since 1863, he settled the question by showing that he had been in frequent communication with him since 1897 on the question of the use of the title.
	In subsequent letters Sir James Stephen Goold alleged that Vere St. Leger actually wrote to him offering him £100 if he would sign a document "waiving his claim", and the claims of his children, to the title. The money was never sent, and the document, if it had been signed for this consideration would have been worth nothing. It is not in the power of anyone to abandon a title in that fashion.
	When Sir James Goold died in August 1926, the [Melbourne] Argus reported, in its edition of 10 August 1926, that:-
	Sir James Stephen Goold, an Irish baronet [sic - it is a baronetcy of the United Kingdom], died yesterday at a mental hospital. [I understand, however, that Sir James had suffered a stroke, so the reference to a mental hospital may be somewhat misleading - it is more likely that he died in some form of sanatorium or nursing home.] Sir James Goold, who was born on October 13, 1848, succeeded his uncle, the third baronet, in 1893. He was for many years and until 13 years ago a railway ganger at Gladstone, South Australia. He never used his title … Sir James Goold had maintained for 44 years the secret of his association with a titled family, but in August 1907, a cable message announced that a Vere Goold and Mrs. Goold had murdered Madame Emma Levin at Monte Carlo. [Vere] Goold said that he had a brother, a baronet, in South Australia …
	The murder referred to above was one of most sensational newspaper stories of 1907. On 6 August of that year, a middle-aged couple arrived at Marseilles by train from Monte Carlo. The man gave a railway porter a luggage ticket and asked him to forward a trunk via goods train to Charing Cross Station in London, to be left there until called for. The trunk was placed on a truck and driven towards the goods station, but on the way, it was noticed that blood was leaking from a corner of the trunk. The porter reported the matter to the police, and when the trunk was opened, they found the body of a woman, whose head and legs had been severed. It was an easy matter to trace the middle-aged couple, since the porter had overheard them hiring a cab to take them to a hotel, whose name he had remembered. The police immediately proceeded to the hotel and arrested the couple, and seized their other luggage. In one of their trunks, the police found the missing head and legs.
	At their subsequent trial the prisoners, Vere St. Leger Goold and his wife Violet Goold, formerly Girondin, denied murdering Emma Levin, but admitted to dismembering her body. Evidence was brought before the court which showed that Emma Levin was a wealthy woman who possessed a valuable collection of jewellery. In addition, it was shown that she had lent money to the Goolds, and had been pressing them for repayment. Finally, on 4 December 1907, the Court found both of the Goolds to be guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced Vere Goold to life imprisonment, while Mrs. Goold was sentenced to death. Vere Goold died in prison on Devil's Island, the French penal settlement off the coast of South America in September 1909 (one report suggests that he committed suicide). His wife's death sentence was later commuted to life in prison, where she died in January 1914.
	The reason for the commutation of Mrs. Goold's death sentence may perhaps be found in the following report which appeared in The Washington Post on 24 December 1907:-
	Mme. Vere Goold has produced consternation in the principality of Monaco by exercising an ancient right of a condemned person and demanding that she be beheaded in the plaza, which is the flower and tree decorated space in front of the Casino at Monte Carlo.
	Ever since the trial of the Goolds for the murder of Emma Levin, the Prince of Monaco has dreaded some such possibility as this. The persistent policy of this ruler has been to keep away, to cover up, anything that might frighten the nervous sensibilities of the patrons of the gambling establishments.
	The idea of an execution in Monte Carlo was horrifying enough, but now this terrible woman demands to be killed in public and that the guillotine be set up in front of the Palace of Chance.
	She and her husband have appealed against their sentences - his that of hard labour for life and hers that of the headsman - and in view of the woman's plea for a final public appearance it is possible the appeal will be granted.
	Meanwhile the Goolds are locked up in the Monaco prison. Goold has sent a farewell message to his friends in Ireland and England, and will be shipped to Cayenne, French Guinea [sic for Guiana], if the sentence be carried out. He has also sent loving messages to the cell of his wife, but she refuses to read them and declares she wants nothing more to do with "that lazy drunkard".
	While researching this note, I made a courtesy phone call to the current baronet, Sir George William [Bill] Goold, who lives in Sydney. Not only was Bill familiar with most aspects of the stories of Sir James Stephen Goold and Vere St. Leger Goold, but he was also aware of some information that was unknown to me. He very kindly sent me a copy of a pamphlet entitled St. Leger Goold; A Tale of Two Courts written by Alan Little and published by the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum in 1984. The two courts referred to in the title of the pamphlet are the court which convicted Vere Goold of murder, and also the tennis courts at Wimbledon, where Goold was a champion player, being the runner-up in the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1879, the same year that he won the Irish championship.
	The Gore-Booth baronetcy
	The following article, which is headed "The sorry fate of the House of Gore-Booth" appeared in The Sunday Times of 25 October 1970. The article was written by Anne ['You are the Weakest Link'] Robinson. On the face of it, the Gore-Booth family appear to have been the victims of, at the least, official incompetence, or, at worst, corruption.
	Lissadell House, County Sligo, is the ancestral home of the Gore‑Booth family. The Gore‑Booths, who share common ancestry with the Earls of Arran and the Barons Harlech, have been lords lieutenant, high sheriffs, justices of the peace, soldiers, sailors and civil servants. The sons went to Eton and Rugby, Oxford and Cambridge, and served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Dragoons, the Irish Guards, the Scots Fusilier Guards and the Royal Navy.
	Lord Gore-Booth rose to head the British diplomatic service. Constance Georgina Gore‑Booth, the Countess Markievicz, fought alongside the rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1916, was the first woman elected to the British Parliament and was the first Irish Minister for Labour. Yeats was a close friend, a regular visitor to Lissadell, an admirer of the sisters:
	"The light of evening, Lissadell,
	Great windows open to the south,
	Two girls in silk kimonos, both
	Beautiful, one a gazelle."
	[These are the opening lines of Yeats's poem "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz."]
	Lissadell, one of Ireland's great houses, and the Gore-Booths, one of its great families, are now in sad decline. The avenue to the once-magnificent Georgian house is lined with potholes. The garden is overgrown, the greenhouses are shattered and empty, the stables beyond repair. The roof of the main block leaks badly and the paintings show patches of mildew. In two tiny bedrooms and a cramped kitchen live Angus Josslyn, the heir presumptive to the family baronetcy, and his sisters, Miss Gabrielle and Miss Aideen. They scratch a living showing visitors over the estate at 3s a head. In winter they sit round the kitchen stove because they cannot afford a coal fire.
	The Gore-Booths claim the trouble they are now in is not of their own making. They tell an alarming story of a 14-year battle against the Irish legal establishment, of political pressures, mismanaged accounts, vanishing forests, unusual business practices, missing funds, and threats of prison as, in front of their eyes, their father's legacy was allowed to be whittled away by the very people appointed in law to protect it.
	Their account sounds like a 19th-century melodrama, yet in Sligo few doubt that it is true. "The Gore‑Booth business," said a neighbour last week, "is one of the great Irish scandals of the century."
	The decline in the fortunes of the Gore-Booth family began with the death in 1944 of the 6th baronet, Sir Josslyn. Sir Josslyn, one of the founders of co-operative dairy societies throughout Ireland and a man of strong social conscience, had steadily built up the 2,670-acre estate, concentrating on commercial timber. His idea was that forests coming progressively into production would take care of his death duties without ruining his family and without the need for dismissing any of the estate workers.
	Sir Josslyn had eight children, four boys and four girls. Two sons, Hugh, the second, and Brian, the third, were killed in action during the war. The youngest, Angus, has had periods of absent-mindedness. The eldest, Sir Michael Savile, 7th baronet, is in a Yorkshire nursing home suffering from mental illness. Sir Michael was already ill when his father died, and incapable therefore of managing the estate.
	Accordingly, the Irish Government, through the Solicitor-General for wards of court (the Irish equivalent to the official solicitor) stepped in and made Sir Michael a ward. The Solicitor-General thus became responsible for administering the financial affairs and the property of Sir Michael. As well, three trustees were appointed and were to be consulted on any major issues concerning the estate.
	The day-to-day management was left in the hands of Miss Gabrielle, and under her care, during the early years of this arrangement, the estate ran profitably. Then, in 1952, trouble began.
	In that year, Mr. Gerald Maguire became the new Solicitor-General for wards of court. Mr. Maguire, who came from a family of lawyers, had his own ideas of how the estate should be run. They did not coincide [with] those of Miss Gabrielle and by 1955 the family had a bank overdraft of some £20,000. There are two versions of how this occurred. Mr. Maguire said that Miss Gabrielle had no idea of how to manage Lissadell and her incompetence had caused the loss.
	Miss Gabrielle says that although the timber trade went through a depressed period at this time, the real reason for the loss was that Mr. Maguire would not allow her enough money from the family funds to pay reasonable wages, and that Mr. Maguire's unusual accounting methods made it hard to keep track of the progress of the business. She says, for example, that in September, 1954, the timber firm of McAinsh and Company paid £5,750 for timber it had felled on the estate. When Miss Gabrielle received the 1954 accounts there was no sign of this amount. After representation to Mr. Maguire, the figure was inserted and the accounts altered accordingly.
	This incident led to a further deterioration in relations and Miss Gabrielle when Mr. Maguire sacked her and appointed a new manager. However, when the new man turned up at Lissadell to take charge, 41 out of the 53 workers on the estate refused to serve under him unless the Gore‑Booths ordered them to do so. Mr. Maguire replied by dismissing them.
	Miss Gabrielle announced that she was not going to let loyal workers be sacked in this manner and said that if Mr. Maguire would not pay their wages then she would. She began selling crops and timber from the estate to raise the money. Mr. Maguire took to the law. He appealed to the High Court in Dublin and succeeded in obtaining an injunction restraining the Gore‑Booths "from selling, removing or disposing" of any of the property at Lissadell.
	This produced a stalemate. Interest was mounting on the £20,000 overdraft (it has now reached £40,000) and the estate began to deteriorate. Miss Gabrielle's idea of how to solve the problem was that Mr. Maguire should release enough of her brother's capital to pay off the overdraft and start afresh. Mr. Maguire saw another, more direct, solution and on October 5, 1956, moved to apply the coup de grace. He applied to the High Court for an order to allow him to sell Lissadell to the Land Commissioner.
	The President of the High Court, Mr. Justice Cahir Davitt, granted the application and made an order for the sale, in which it was said that the trustees of the Gore‑Booth estate had agreed to such a sale. Since the trustees were Sir Michael's uncles, Major Michael Nicholls and Mr. Mordaunt Gore‑Booth, this came as a surprise to Miss Gabrielle and her family and they immediately sent telegrams to the uncles asking if this was so. Both uncles replied rather testily that not only had they not given consent to the sale of Lissadell but they had not been consulted. The family made representations to Mr. Justice Davitt with this evidence and the order for the sale was rescinded.
	These events had caused something of a stir in Ireland. Mr. Justice Davitt is the son of one of Ireland's great national leaders, Michael Davitt, founder of the Land League, which, in the nineteenth century, broke the power of landlords in Ireland and enabled tenant farmers to become owners of their own holdings. But Irish newspapers hesitated to tackle the story. "It was a political hot potato," a Dublin reporter said last week. "Firstly, it's Government policy to break up the old large estates, and secondly no one wanted to take on a story where everyone involved had such good connections."
	Mr. Maguire's next move set County Sligo talking. He decided to sell some Lissadell cattle and sent an agent and three men to collect them. Just as a precaution he also sent a police escort. This column was met by a determined Miss Gabrielle and Miss Aideen who appeared to be trying to drive the cattle away by waving their arms. Mr. Maguire went straight to the High Court and asked that the sisters be sent to jail for contempt. In evidence Miss Gabrielle denied that she had been trying to drive the cattle off. Knowing Mr. Maguire's accounting methods, she had, she said, merely been trying to count the cattle before they were sold. The judge said the whole thing was a trivial matter and dismissed the application.
	The battle between Mr. Maguire and the Gore-Booths continued. Mr. Maguire took over the management of the estate himself and obtained an injunction restraining the Gore‑Booths from interfering with him. He followed the injunction a week later with an eviction order, but this was suspended indefinitely so long as the family refrained from interfering. The threat of losing their home was an effective check and the Gore‑Booths were able to do nothing when a new manager was installed on the estate and felling of large areas of woodlands began.
	The felling of the trees continued with a curious change in the method of selling the timber. Normal practice had been to offer the forests for sale by tender. Merchants would be given details of the woods, allowed to inspect them, and then invited to make a bid. This suddenly ended. McAinsh and Company, one of the regular bidders under this system, was not invited to tender any more and as a result closed its saw-mill in the area.
	To replace the tender system a new arrangement was worked out with the now defunct timber firm of D.G. Somerville. Under an agreement with the Solicitor-General for wards of court, Somervilles would fell a section of woodland, measure the timber and then make an offer. This peculiar system is not generally known in the timber trade.
	The Gore-Booths, upset at the whittling down of the estate, made repeated requests through their own solicitor for a statement of the family affairs. In 1960 Mr. Maguire died and the new Solicitor-General for wards of court gave permission for the family to be given revenue statements for the sale of timber for the previous five years. The family received a sheet of paper with the figure £16,390. No details whatsoever were supplied. (Again the Solicitor-General's office appeared to have had a problem with their figures. D.G. Somerville, to whom the timber had been sold, independently gave Miss Gabrielle a total of £16,219.)
	The Gore-Booth family challenged this. Miss Gabrielle has spent months tramping the estate to measure woodland and count tree-stumps and has documented in great detail a claim against the Solicitor-General totalling £234,000.
	For example, Miss Gabrielle claims that between 1956 and 1960 the manager sold timber from 153 acres of top quality woodland. Mr. John Plant, the former manager of Somervilles, puts the value of the timber at £925 an acre. A timber expert last week gave a more conservative estimate of £500. Even calculated on the lower price the return should have been in the region of £76,000. The amount could have been more. The Forestry Department can only produce felling licences for 95 acres. The remaining 58 acres were felled without reference to the Department which has therefore, no record of the number of the trees chopped down on these sections. Later in 1960, after Somervilles went into liquidation, Mr. Plant bought on his own behalf £9,000 worth of standing timber from Lissadell. The amount entered for this transaction in the official accounts which the family received was £1,931.
	In 1961 the Gore-Booths took their case to the High Court. It was four years before Mr. Justice Davitt delivered his judgment. He stated that his investigations into the accounts and balance sheets provided by the Solicitor-General of wards of court showed nothing wrong. The family appealed but discontinued their action when they ran out of funds.
	In 1967, the new President of the High Court, Mr. Justice O'Keefe, made a further order for the Lissadell estate, excluding the house, to be sold to the Land Commission. The two uncles who had been trustees had died. The new trustee, the Bank of Ireland, owed about £40,000 from the estate, gave its consent to the sale. A bid by the family to oppose the order was unsuccessful and Lissadell was sold for £77,000. Miss Gabrielle has appealed to the Attorney-General of Ireland for an inquiry. Her chances are not bright. The present Solicitor-General for wards of court, Mr. Daniel Coughlan, said last week:- "I feel that little can happen unless a claim is put through the courts, and that has already been done."
	Lord Mountbatten, who owns a nearby estate and sympathises with the Gore-Booths' difficulties, now employs Miss Gabrielle as his manager and regards her as highly competent. With the income from this, and takings from visitors, Miss Gabrielle, Miss Aideen and Mr. Angus hope to hold out at Lissadell until the Attorney-General makes his decision. Miss Gabrielle said yesterday:- "It's our last chance. We have no money for further legal fees." If their last chance fails then within a year the estate will be split into small parcels and sold. If this happens, Lissadell, and with it a bit of Irish history, will cease to exist.
	Eventually, in 2003, Lissadell House was sold to a private couple for €3 million. The new owners spent large amounts in restoring the house and gardens, and continued to allow public access to the house, but they limited public rights of way over the estate, including a right of way to a popular beach bordering the grounds. In December 2010, after Sligo County Council had voted to preserve the public rights of way, the Irish High Court ruled in favour of the Council and the public rights of way were restored.
	Agnes Goring, wife of Sir Craven Charles Goring, 10th baronet
	Lady Goring is the central character in one of the stories included in Lord Halifax's Ghost Book [Geoffrey Bles London 1936], a collection of ghost stories compiled by Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax. When I first set out to write this note, I believed that the note would consist only of Lady Goring's story, but, upon digging a bit deeper, the note "growed like Topsy". Firstly, the story of Lady Goring's dream:-
	One night Lady Goring distinctly saw in a dream an old house, which was quite unfamiliar to her. She knew that someone was with her and that she was visiting this house for a purpose; and when she got inside, one special room was fixed in her mind. First, it had a very curious frieze near the ceiling; then the latticed windows were of a peculiar, long, narrow shape and were connected by a striking moulding. In her dream she saw an elderly woman sitting hunched up in an armchair by the fire; but a moment later her attention wandered from her to the door, which was softly opening. She saw a man enter, steal up quickly to the elderly woman, who was apparently asleep, suddenly produce a pistol, place it close to her temple, and fire. When his victim fell over, the murderer tried to arrange the pistol so that it might appear as if it had fallen from her hand. He then noiselessly left the room, shutting the door after him, but a few moments afterwards reappeared and made some further alterations in the position of the dead woman and the pistol. Having done so, he went away and did not return. Lady Goring saw his face so plainly in her dream that it became fixed in her memory.
	In course of time she and her husband, Sir Craven, wished to rent a house, and inspected various properties, among others an old manor in Cheshire. The moment Lady Goring entered the manor she felt that the place was strangely familiar to her. Then the truth flashed upon her. "I have never been here in my life, " she told herself, "but it is the house of my dream."
	At that moment the caretaker said, "This door on the right leads to the drawing-room"; where-upon Lady Goring corrected her, saying, "I am sure that you must mean the dining-room."
	The caretaker apologised and replied, "Did I say the drawing-room? I meant to say the dining-room."
	As soon as she opened the door, Lady Goring recognised the remarkable frieze, the latticed windows and the peculiar moulding. There was also a chair near the fireplace.
	The caretaker, on being asked for some information about the house, told the Gorings that the last tenant had not stayed very long and that the family previously in possession had been foreigners. She thought they were Austrians or Swiss. There were three of them, a gentleman, his wife and his mother-in-law. There had been a sad tragedy in their time because the old lady had shot herself. After this, the husband and wife had gone away to foreign parts and the house had been shut up for some time.
	Lady Goring did not take the house, but some months later, as she was walking down Regent Street and idly looking in at the shop windows, she came to a standstill opposite the Stereoscopic. What had stopped her was a photograph in the window. "Why!" she exclaimed to herself, "there is the murderer of my dream." On going into the shop and enquiring who the man in the photograph might be, she found that it was Tourville, who was then being tried for the murder of his second wife in the Tyrol.
	While it is impossible to say whether Lady Goring's dream ever actually occurred, there is no doubt at all that the death described by Lady Goring took place, and that in the manner of the dream. The following article appeared in The Manchester Guardian of 25 September 1876:-
	In April 1868 there appeared the following in the Warrington Guardian, under the head "Fatal Pistol Accident at Lymm: A Lady Shot by her Son-in-Law." - On Saturday morning last Mrs. Elizabeth Brigham, who resided at Foxley Hall, Lymm, was killed by the discharge of a revolver pistol, which her son-in-law, Mons. Perreau, had been engaged in cleaning. The deceased lady was the widow of the late Dr. Brigham, and had been many years resident at Foxley Hall. A great deal of excitement was occasioned in the neighbourhood immediately the melancholy occurrence became known; and rumours were circulated as to the act having been done designedly. At the inquest held before Mr. James Nicholson, coroner, the whole of the facts were minutely inquired into, and all cause for suspicion was set at rest, when, after an investigation of five hours, the Jury returned a verdict of accidental death. [It should be noted that Lymm is in Cheshire, and therefore Lady Goring's mention of an "old manor in Cheshire" fits very nicely with "Foxley Hall, Lymm". The evidence becomes even stronger as the report continues …]
	The sequel to this Lymm "accident" appears in the French correspondent's column of the Standard of Friday, as follows:- "A tragic event has just occurred at the Stitzer-Joch, in the Tyrol. A lady of English birth, Madame de Tourville, was found dead at the foot of a rock. Her husband stated that she had been seized with a sudden giddiness and had fallen down the precipice. Rumours, however, got afloat that her death was not the result of an accident, but of crime. An inquiry held by the authorities resulted in a verdict of not proven. The matter then entered on a new phase. The English police, whose suspicions were aroused, gathered fresh information about the husband. Henri de Tourville had previously passed under the name of Henri Perreau. His first wife was a woman of ailing constitution. One day Perreau happened to be alone with his mother-in-law, and was showing her the mechanism of a revolver. As ill-luck would have it the weapon was loaded and a barrel went off, which killed the lady. His wife died soon after, and Perreau inherited £40,000 sterling. Perreau was not prosecuted, but the police thought it their duty to keep an eye on him. He afterwards changed his name to De Tourville, and in November 1875, married a second wife with a fortune of £70,000, and persuaded her to make a will in his favour. They then went travelling, and did not return to England. TheTagblatt of Innsbruck, which gives these details, does not say whether the Austrian police have taken any steps in consequence of the information furnished by the English detectives."
	Mrs. de Tourville was killed on 16 July 1876. After her death and the subsequent inquiry held by the authorities in Austria, de Tourville had returned to England, where, in late October 1876, he was arrested on an extradition warrant and charged with murder. He was subsequently extradited to Austria, where he stood trial in June/July 1877, at which trial he was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, but this sentence was later commuted to 18 years' hard labour. During much of the 1880s, de Tourville's name was often before the English courts as he sought to receive the moneys that had been left to him under the wills of his two former wives. These cases were further complicated by the existence of an alleged son by his first marriage who had disappeared, and the possibility that this son was identical with a body found washed up on a beach in Naples in 1885. According to a number of reports in American newspapers de Tourville died in prison in February 1890, the reporting of which led the papers to provide their readers with a summary of de Tourville's history. The following summary appeared in 'The Washington Post' of 24 February 1890. In some respects it differs from the outline shown above, but it also contains some new information/allegations:-
	One of the most remarkable criminals of modern times has just brought his life to a close in the Karlau Prison, at Graz, Austria. A Frenchman of low birth, yet of exceedingly handsome appearance and still more charming manners, he caused himself to be naturalized in England under the name of "Count Henry de Tourville". It is not customary for the clerks who register the naturalization papers to inquire into the rights or legality of a foreign title borne by a candidate for British citizenship, and no difficulty is made about registering aliens under any nobiliary designation which they may assume for the occasion. The title figuring upon the naturalization papers, with the stamp and seal of the British government appended thereto, is regarded by the uninitiated both at home and abroad as having received the official confirmation, sanction, and recognition of Queen Victoria, and from that time forth is considered what one might describe as a legal tender.
	With the assistance of the title thus obtained, "Count de Tourville", who was the type of the polished and highly-cultured adventurer, spread his net in the provincial cities of the midland counties, and succeeded in capturing the affections of a wealthy heiress of the middle classes. His married life was, however, of short duration, for his wife died abroad from the effects of powdered glass put in her food and drink. His mother-in-law, who suspected his share in her daughter's death, and who, with true mother-in-law-like method, lost no opportunity in insinuating her belief on the subject, was "accidentally" shot through the brain by him while he was cleaning a pistol. It should be added that the only reason why the old lady exposed herself to the danger of travelling about with the pseudo Count was for the purpose of protecting the life and interests of her little grandson, the sole issue of the marriage, and on whom the fortune of the murdered woman was settled.
	Within a short time after the death of de Tourville's mother-in-law the house in which his little three-year-old boy was residing mysteriously caught fire and the child barely escaped with his life. The circumstances of the case were so peculiar that the marriage trustees determined to take possession of the infant. De Tourville did not venture to protest or face the music of a law court on the subject, for he realized that, although the evidence against him was not sufficient to secure a conviction, it was quite sufficient to ruin any further matrimonial chances in England. The boy is now a young man of about twenty. With the sanction of his guardians he has assumed his mother's in lieu of his father's name, and next year he will attain his majority and will be placed in possession of his fortune.
	Scarcely a year had elapsed after the attempt to burn his little boy when de Tourville succeeded in obtaining the hand of a wealthy widow residing at Birmingham. Her name was Madeline Miller, and her fortune amounted to about $200,000, her age, however, being fifty-seven; that is, fifteen years older than de Tourville's. The latter was exceedingly relieved to discover that she had no near relatives. The wedding took place at Birmingham in June, 1876, and the honeymoon was spent in the Austrian Tyrol. On the 16th of July the couple proceeded to make an excursion up the mountain known as the Stillfer Joche. Shortly after nightfall he returned alone to the hotel at Vozen, and declared amid great protestations of grief that his wife had fallen over a precipice and had been killed. The mangled remains of the poor lady were found on the following day, and so sincere did de Tourville's sorrow appear that no suspicion arose at the time [this is totally at odds with other reports, which state that de Tourville's reaction to his wife's death was that of total nonchalance, which gave rise to the initial police suspicion of his guilt]. The inquest was of the most perfunctory nature, and the burial took place in the Protestant Cemetery here. Immediately afterward de Tourville left for England and assumed possession of his wife's fortune without difficulty.
	Within a few days after his departure, however, rumours began to circulate about Meran concerning certain peculiar features in connection with the accident. In the first place, a Vienna lawyer named Dr. Markreiter who was stopping at Vozen at the time, and who was an enthusiast on the subject of mountaineering, drew attention to the fact that the upper portion of the precipice at the foot of which she was found was of a slope so very gradual and gentle from the road that it was impossible that any one could have slipped from the path and been straightway precipitated into the abyss. It was manifest that the unfortunate woman's body must have been dragged almost to the edge of the lower section of the precipice in order to have fallen into the abyss. The suspicions thus engendered were further corroborated by the servants of the hotel and by the knowledge that the "Countess" had been considerably older and richer than her husband.
	So serious did the presumption of foul play become that by order of the local justice the body of the lady was exhumed and subjected to a careful autopsy. From this it resulted that several wounds were found on the body which could not have been produced by the fall. In view of these circumstances a warrant of arrest was issued against de Tourville, and the authorities here were requested to take the necessary steps for procuring his extradition from England. He was arrested in London by a Scotland Yard detective by the name of Clark and taken before Magistrate Vaughn at the Bow-street police court, with a view to his extradition. Considerable difficulty was experienced, for the question arose whether he was an English subject, and whether, as a Frenchman, the English authorities possessed the right to extradite him. The validity of his naturalization was open to question, since he admitted and was able to show that he had been citizenized [ugh!] by England under a false name, namely, that of de Tourville. Finally, he was turned over to the Austrian authorities.
	One of the most extraordinarily dramatic trials of modern times now took place. One of the most sensational incidents occurred when de Tourville denied having shot the mother of his first wife. The London detective, Clark, then stepped into the witness box, opened his bag, and extracted therefrom the skull of the old lady, perforated by the bullet. Another equally striking feature was when the entire court adjourned to witness the scene of the accident in the mountains. Judges, jury, counsel, prisoner, police, newspaper reporters, drove up in a long file of carriages to the spot where de Tourville claimed that his wife had fallen. A dummy figure of life size was taken along for the purpose of demonstrating the impossibility of the body having fallen from the roadway down the precipice without having been dragged a considerable distance. When the court returned to Vozen at the conclusion of this unique mountain excursion, de Tourville was condemned to death. On appeal, in view of the circumstantial nature of the evidence, the sentence was commuted to one of penal servitude for twenty years.
	The first portion of his imprisonment was spent in the penitentiary at Cape d'Istria, whence he was moved to that of Gradisca. While at Gradisca he almost succeeded in effecting his escape by bribing two wardens with gold that had been smuggled into his possession in the hollow of a flatiron. On the discovery thereof he was immediately removed to the Karlau, near Graz, which is the most gloomy and terrible of all Austrian prisons. It was there that he died a fortnight ago after sixteen [sic] years of incarceration.
	Sir Harry Yelverton Goring, 11th baronet
	The following article appeared in the New Zealand Inangahua Times on 4 May 1897.
	Inangahua is a region on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. The newspaper was published in the town of Reefton, reputedly the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to be lit by electricity, although Tamworth in New South Wales also claims this honour.
	Mr. Henry Yelverston [sic] Goring, formerly of [New] Zealand, at present at Tamworth [a nice coincidence], in Staffordshire, has just succeeded to the family baronetcy. It appears (writes our London correspondent under date March 29th) that on Thursday he received a telegram from a friend in Lichfield congratulating him on his title, and referring him to the obituary notices in that day's Times. "I said to my wife," remarked Sir H. Y. Goring, "I doubt my friend is hoaxing me, but anyhow I'll go to the public reading room and see the paper. So after I had my dinner I went, and read the notice of the sudden death of my cousin, Colonel Sir Charles Goring. I had never anticipated a fatal termination to his illness, particularly as he was of the same age as myself, and had not gone through the many hardships that I have."
	The new baronet says he went out with his father to New Zealand, where his father became private secretary to Sir George Grey, the then Governor, and continued to act in that capacity to the succeeding Governors for 30 years, when he retired on a pension. The present baronet could find nothing to do, and went to Sydney to look for work. Not getting any, he joined the First Battalion 12th Suffolk Regiment in 1860. He had no friends in the regiment, and the promotion he got was simply on his merits. He was made sergeant at Sealcot (India) in 1869. In 1872 he returned Home and retired in 1886 on a pension of 25/6 per week. As he had a large family he entered the tobacco business, and has been in it for seven years.
	Asked if he would stay in Tamworth, the baronet said: "I feel quite satisfied with my present position, so far as it goes. I am quite comfortable, and did not want this thing at all - this honour which has been put upon me without my wish. I did not expect that I should ever come into it. But I always thought my son would get it some day. He is in New Zealand, managing a sheep ranch." Just then an old lady came in for her "pennyworth 'f snuff", which the baronet duly served to her.
	The special remainder to the baronetcy of Grace (originally Gamon) created in 1795
	From the London Gazette of 7 April 1795 (issue 13768, page 319):-
	The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the Kingdom of Great Britain to Richard Gamon, of Minchenden House in the County of Middlesex, Esq; with Remainder to Richard Grace, of Rahin in the Queen's County and Kingdom of Ireland, Esq; and his Issue Male.
	Sir Frederick Ulric Graham, 3rd baronet [GB 1783]
	A dramatic incident in the life of Sir Frederick was reported in The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser on 7 November 1868:-
	An extraordinary case of threatening to shoot Sir Frederick Graham, Bart., of Netherby, comes to us from Longtown. It appears that Sir Frederick Graham and five other gentlemen were out shooting, when a young man named Isaac Sanderson, the son of a respectable yeoman, came up to them with a dog and gun. Sir Frederick sent a man to see what Sanderson wanted, upon which the latter went up to Sir Henry Vane, and asked him for some gun-caps, as he said he was going to shoot with the party. The head-keeper took the gun from Sanderson, who then became very violent, assaulting one of the keepers, and threatening Sir Frederick, whom he said he would kill. He was then taken away to the Longtown Police-office. In the police cell the prisoner smashed everything within his reach. He said he would fight Sir Frederick with any weapon he chose; and he said he ought to have given him the satisfaction of a gentleman. Next day he was brought before the Longtown magistrates and bound over, himself in £100, and two others in £50, and was committed to gaol until the sureties were provided. These were provided, and on the day after his release from prison the young man appeared again at Longtown, and, from his conduct, the police-sergeant felt it to be his duty to re-arrest him. He was taken to Carlisle, and there brought before a special session of justices, by whom he was committed for seven days, in order that his mental condition might be ascertained. The authorities at Carlisle have since decided to communicate with the Home Secretary with a view to his removal to an asylum.
	Florence, Lady Graham, widow of Sir Richard James Graham, 4th baronet [GB 1783]
	Lady Graham died from her injuries after she had been knocked down by a London tram, as reported in the London Daily Telegraph of 6 January 1934:-
	Florence Lady Graham, of Catherine-street, Buckinghamsgate, was knocked down by a tramcar on the Victoria-embankment yesterday and was taken to Westminster Hospital with serious head injuries. It was stated last night that she was unconscious and critically ill. It was impossible to move her for an X-ray examination.
	Lady Graham, who is about 70, was taking her customary morning walk with her granddaughter, aged nine, and a dog. They stopped to cross the road, and Lady Graham asked the child to pick up the dog. The child did so, and Lady Graham started to cross the road, apparently unaware that a tramcar was approaching.
	The child did not see the accident. She was cared for by a policewoman.
	Lady Graham is a daughter of the late Mr. J. Carter-Wood. In 1892 she married Mr. James Reginald Graham, who died in 1910. In 1927 she married, as his third wife, his brother, Sir Richard James Graham. Sir Richard died in 1932.
	Lady Graham's injuries were too severe for her to survive. An inquest was held which was reported in the Daily Telegraph of 10 January 1934:-
	The death of Florence Lady Graham, of Catherine-street, Buckinghamsgate, who died at Westminster Hospital after being knocked down by a tramcar on Victoria Embankment, on Friday, was inquired into by the Westminster coroner yesterday.
	Stoker Cyril Cadman, H.M.S. Crescent, of Gillingham, said he was on Victoria Embankment and saw Lady Graham step off the pavement on the river side. "She did not seem to look either way," he said, "but stepped across the road on to the tram track. When the tram was about 15ft away she stopped. Someone shouted to her to get out of the way, and as the tram was pulling up it struck her." Stoker Cadman added that the driver of the tram sounded his bell and shouted.
	Alfred Bennet Houghting, motorman, of Stockwell, said that Lady Graham was about eight yards away when she stepped on to the track. "I shouted and applied my brake," he added, "but she went into my buffer."
	Mr R.P.G. Vivian, of Stone Hall, Balcombe, a stepson, told the coroner that Lady Graham had her granddaughter with her and also a little dog. "It was, I think," he said, "her anxiety about her little dog, which she stopped to pick up, that made her hesitate."
	The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and exonerated the driver.
	Sir John Reginald Noble Graham VC, 3rd baronet [UK 1906]
	Graham was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1917. The citation in the London Gazette (Supplement 30284, page 9532 dated 14 September 1917) reads:-
	Lt. John Reginald Noble Graham, Arg. & Suth'd Highrs [Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders], attd. M.G.C. [attached to the Machine Gun Corps]
	For most conspicuous bravery, coolness and resource when in command of a Machine Gun Section.
	Lt. Graham accompanied his guns across open ground, under very heavy rifle and machine gun fire, and when his men became casualties, he assisted in carrying the ammunition.
	Although twice wounded he continued during the advance to control his guns and was able, with one gun, to open an accurate fire on the enemy, who were massing for a counter-attack. This gun was put out of action by the enemy's rifle fire, and he was again wounded. The advancing enemy forced him to retire, but before doing so he further disabled his gun, rendering it useless.
	He then brought a Lewis gun into action with excellent effect till all the ammunition was expended. He was again severely wounded, and forced through loss of blood to retire.
	His valour and skilful handling of his guns held up a strong counter-attack which threatened to roll up the left flank of the Brigade, and thus averted what might have been a very critical situation.

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