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Benjamin Bloomfield Gough (20 January 1814 – 13 December 1893) was a nineteenth-century Anglican priest in the Church of Ireland.

Gough was born in County Tipperary to an Anglo-Irish family that had moved from Wiltshire to Ireland in the 17th century. He was the fourth son of Thomas Bunbury Gough, Dean of Derry, and Hon. Charlotte Bloomfield, granddaughter of Lord Chancellor Viscount Jocelyn. His uncles were Field-Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough and Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield. His elder brothers were Gen. Sir John Bloomfield Gough of the Indian Army, George Gough of the Bengal Civil Service, and Col. Thomas Bunbury Gough, who was killed in Battle of the Great Redan in the Crimean War.

He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1835 and Master of Arts in 1842.

Gough was the curate at Culdaff; Rector of Dunboe; of then the Archdeacon of Derry from 1846 until his resignation in 1849. He then held incumbencies at Urney and Maghera.

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v t e Archdeacons of Derry
Giolla Domhnaill O'Foramain Macraith O'Daighre Maelisa O'Daighre Geoffry O'Daighre Michael O'Cahan William Morse Magonius O'Donnell Laurence Donald O'Cahan John O'Gallagher Thomas Winter Owen M'Cawell John Richardson George Holland Edward Stanhope Jonathan Edwards Roger Ford Joseph Rothery Benjamin Bacon Louis Saurin Edward Golding Thomas Barnard Philip Smythe John Stanley Monck Lewis Burroughs Clotworthy Soden Newburgh Burroughs Trefusis Lovell Thomas Tipping Aveling Thomas Monsell Benjamin Gough John Hayden Arthur Edwards Charles Galway Edward Hamilton Thomas Olphert William Colquhoun John Adams William Holmes John Richardson Charlie Willoughby George Knowles Samuel Simpson Don McLean Robert Miller

v t e Church of Ireland dioceses
Province of Armagh	Armagh Clogher Connor Derry and Raphoe Down and Dromore Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
Province of Dublin	Cashel and Ossory Cork, Cloyne and Ross Dublin and Glendalough Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe Meath and Kildare

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