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.Gooch, Major Sir Timothy (Robert Sherlock), Who’s Who online edition by Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, accessed 6 May 2026
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.Burke's Peerage, volume 2, 2003, page 1580
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, running along the east coast of Suffolk from South Kessingland to Easton.
Gooch died on 9 April 2008 and was succeeded as head of the family by a cousin, Brigadier Arthur Gooch. However, he separated the 7,000-acre estate from the baronetcy, leaving it to his widow and daughters, rather than his heir,The Gooch family of Benacre Estate - A brief history, benacre.com, accessed 6 May 2026 who was then aged over seventy and also had only daughters.'Gooch, Brig. Sir Arthur (Brian Sherlock Heywood)' in Who's Who (UK), online edition by Oxford University Press, accessed 25 May 2026
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