Francis Gough, J.P.thePeerage.com (1594-1634) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland during the first half of the Seventeenth century.Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
Gough was born in Wiltshire and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 He was appointed Chancellor of Limerick in 1618; and consecrated Bishop of Limerick in 1626.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S. et al., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . He died on 29 August 1634."A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire" Burke, J.B. p446: London, Henry Colburn, 1845
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