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Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (21 October 1681 – 17 December 1751) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749. Technically, Gooch only held the title of Royal Lieutenant Governor, but the nominal governors, Lord Orkney and Lord Albemarle , were in England and did not ...
Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1681–1751) Sir Thomas Gooch, 2nd Baronet (1675–1754) Sir Thomas Gooch, 3rd Baronet (c. 1721 –1781) Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Baronet (1745–1826) Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, 5th Baronet (1767–1851) Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, 6th Baronet (1802–1856) Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, 7th Baronet (1843–1872)
Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1727–1740) Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1737–1754, absentee) Acting Governor James Blair (1740–1741) (acting for Lt. Gov. Gooch while latter out-of-country) Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1741–1749)
Lady Rebecca Staunton Gooch (1685 – February 1775), also referred to as "Lady Gooch" and "Dame Rebecca Gooch", was an English noblewoman and wife of Sir William Gooch, the Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749.
Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1681–1751), governor of Virginia, 1727–1749 William Gooch (astronomer) (1770–1792), English astronomer on the Vancouver Expedition Topics referred to by the same term
Tiny Gooch (1903–1986), American all-around college athlete, attorney, and politician; U. L. Gooch (1923–2021), American aviator, aviation entrepreneur, and politician; Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1681–1751), colonial Governor of Virginia; William Gooch (astronomer) (1770–1792), English astronomer on the Vancouver Expedition
Gooch was Master of Gonville and Caius from 1716 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1717. He became successively Bishop of Bristol in 1737, Bishop of Norwich in 1738, and Bishop of Ely in 1747. In 1751 he inherited the title of baronet from his brother Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet. [2]
A church was constructed at York about 1638. In 1655, Maj. William Gooch, uncle of Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, was buried within the church walls. His armorial slab is one of the oldest interpretable tombstones in Virginia. The village was abandoned by the end of the 18th century.