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unusual facts about Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe



Alvingham Priory

In a few years the convent possessed lands in Alvingham, Cockerington, and Calthorp, and the churches of St. Adelwold, Alvingham, and St. Mary, Cockerington, which stood in the same churchyard, within the precinct of the priory, and the churches of St. Leonard, Cockerington, Cawthorpe, Keddington, and Newton.

Anne Calthorpe

Anne Calthorpe, Countess of Sussex (died 22 August 1579/28 March 1582), was the second wife of Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, who divorced her in 1555 on the grounds of her alleged bigamous marriage to Sir Edmund Knyvet, and her "unnatural and unkind" character.

Armistice of Mudros

It was signed by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and the British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos.

Charles Calthorpe

Calthorpe married firstly Winifred Toto, daughter of the Italian-born painter Anthony Toto, Serjeant Painter to Henry VIII and Edward VI.

Dai Llewellyn

The couple divorced after seven years in 1987, and Vanessa then married John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe.

Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe

From his second marriage with Grace Wakeling, he is the father of Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon (former wife of John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, and mother of Isabella Calthorpe and Cressida Bonas).

Neill Cooper-Key

They had two sons and two daughters; the second- but only surviving- son, (Kevin) Esmond Peter (1943-1985), married Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe, whose daughter by her second husband, property magnate and scion of baronets John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is the actress Isabella Calthorpe.

Occupation of Constantinople

In August 1919 John de Robeck replaced Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe with the title of "Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, and High Commissioner at Constantinople".

Roman military personal equipment

Calthorpe: A simple effective woollen t shirt underneath the tunic for sweat redusion

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

Robert Dunsmuir, M.E.C., of "Craigdarroch Castle," Victoria, British Columbia, and his wife, Joanna, daughter of Alexander White, Esquire, of Kilmarnock, Scotland.


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