Hugh Gough

Hugh Rowlands Gough, (19 September 1905 – 13 November 1997) was an Anglican bishop. Early life Gough was born in Thandiani, Punjab, British India, into a clerical family, the son of the Rev. Charles Massey Gough and his wife, Lizzie Middleton. He was educated at Weymouth College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Clerical career He trained for ordination at the London College of Divinity and was made deacon in 1928 and ordained a priest in 1929. His first position was as a curate at St Mary's Islington (1928-1931). He was then successively perpetual curate of St Paul's Walcot, Bath (1931-1934), vicar of St James' Carlisle (1934-1939), Vicar of St Matthew's, Bayswater (1939-1946) as well as a chaplain in the British Armed Forces during World War II and (before his consecration to the episcopate) the vicar of St Mary's, Islington (1946-1948) and Rural Dean of Islington (1946-1948) and a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, London, in 1948.