68 The Gooch family. 



went to live near Benacre, eventually dying in London on 

 Feby. 27th, 1876, at the age of 78. He had sixteen children 

 of whom only four now survive. They all more or less 

 followed their father's love of sport. When at Stainton, Major 

 Cecil Gooch (93rd Highlanders) and Capt. Percy Gooch (92nd 

 Highlanders) used to hunt regularly from there, and later 

 fought in the Crimea and also through the Indian Mutiny. 

 Major Cecil Gooch married Miss Van Straubenzee, the 

 daughter of a house the name of which is much connected 

 with Northern sport, as has already been shown. Another 

 son, the Rev. Frank Harcourt Gooch, was ordained in 1865, 

 and regularly rode to hounds till his increasing weight 

 compelled him to give up the saddle. He still maintains his 

 interest in the chase, however, and follows either on foot or on 

 wheels. His only son, Captain R. F. R. Gooch, maintains the 

 old tradition of the family, and now hunts from Banbury, 

 where he keeps a big stud of hunters. He is well known with 

 the Bicester and Warwickshire as a first-flight man and as the 

 winner of many Point to Point Races both in those countries 

 and in the Belvoir. He was for some years A.D.C. to Sir W. 

 Ridgeway, in Ceylon, and there won the Governor's Cup two 

 successive years. A daughter of the late Rev. Wm. Gooch's, 

 in the person of Mrs. Bewicke-Bewicke, still lives in Yorkshire 

 at Linton Dale, near Doncaster. Her husband was the owner 

 of Coulby Manor, near Stockton, of which her son, General 

 Bewicke-Copley, is now owner. He resides at Sprotborough 

 Hall, near Doncaster, the family place. By a peculiar 

 coincidence the late vicar of Stainton was curate there before 

 Archbishop Harcourt gave him the living of Stainton. His 

 remains are interred at the pretty little Cleveland village where 

 he was so much beloved, from which he saw so much sport. 



