Sir Timothy Gooch, 13th Baronet
Sir Timothy Robert Sherlock Gooch, 13th Baronet MBE DL (7 December 1934 – 9 April 2008), of Benacre Hall, was a British army officer and landowner, with an estate of some 7,000 acres in Suffolk.[1]
He was a younger son of Colonel Sir Robert Gooch, 11th Baronet, KCVO DSO and Katharine Clerveaux, a daughter of Major General Sir Edward Chaytor. Commissioned into the Life Guards, he rose to the rank of major.[1][2]
In 1963, Gooch married Susan Barbara Christie, only daughter of Major General K. C. Cooper CB DSO OBE, and they had two daughters, Lucinda and Victoria. In 1999, he succeeded his older brother Sir John Gooch as baronet and as owner of the Benacre Hall estate,[1][2] running along the east coast of Suffolk from South Kessingland to Easton.[3]
Gooch died on 9 April 2008 and was succeeded as head of the family by a cousin, Brigadier Arthur Gooch.[1] However, he separated the 7,000-acre estate from the baronetcy, leaving it to his widow and daughters, rather than his heir,[3] who was then aged over seventy and also had only daughters.[2][4]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Gooch, Major Sir Timothy (Robert Sherlock), Who’s Who online edition by Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, accessed 6 May 2026 (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 Burke's Peerage, volume 2, 2003, page 1580
- 1 2 The Gooch family of Benacre Estate - A brief history, benacre.com, accessed 6 May 2026
- ↑ 'Gooch, Brig. Sir Arthur (Brian Sherlock Heywood)' in Who's Who (UK), online edition by Oxford University Press, accessed 25 May 2026 (subscription required)
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- ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
