GOOGE, BARNABE (1540-1594).—­Poet and translator, b. at Lincoln, studied at both Camb. and Oxf.  He was a kinsman of Cecil, who gave him employment in Ireland.  He translated from the Latin of Manzolli The Zodiac of Life, a satire against the Papacy, and The Popish Kingdome by T. Kirchmayer, a similar work; also The Foure Bookes of Husbandrie of Conrad Heresbach.  In 1563 he pub. a vol. of original poems, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonnettes.

GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (1833-1870).—­Poet, was b. in the Azores, the s. of an officer in the army.  He went to Australia, where he had a varied career in connection with horses and riding, for which he had a passion.  He betook himself to the Bush, got into financial trouble, and d. by his own hand.  In the main he derives his inspiration (as in the Rhyme of Joyous Garde, and Britomarte) from mediaeval and English sources, not from his Australian surroundings.  Among his books are Sea-spray and Smoke-drift (1867), Bush Ballads (containing The Sick Stock-rider) (1870), Ashtaroth (1867).  In many of his poems, e.g. An Exile’s Farewell, and Whispering in the Wattle Boughs, there is a strong vein of sadness and pathos.

GORE, MRS. CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (MOODY) (1799-1861).—­Novelist, dau. of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was b. She m. a Captain Gore, with whom she resided mainly on the Continent, supporting her family by her voluminous writings.  Between 1824 and 1862 she produced about 70 works, the most successful of which were novels of fashionable English life.  Among these may be mentioned Manners of the Day (1830), Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb (1841), and The Banker’s Wife (1843).  She also wrote for the stage, and composed music for songs.

GOSSON, STEPHEN (1554-1624).—­Poet, actor, and satirist, b. in Kent, and ed. at Oxf., he went to London, and wrote plays, which are now lost, and pastorals; but, moved by a sermon preached at Paul’s Cross in 1577 during a plague, he deserted the theatre, and became one of its severest critics in his prose satire, The School of Abrose (1579), directed against “poets, pipers, players, jesters, and such-like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth.”  Dedicated to Sir P. Sidney, it was not well received by him, and is believed to have evoked his Apologie for Poetrie (1595).  G. entered the Church, and d. Rector of St. Botolph’s, London.

GOUGH, RICHARD (1735-1809).—­Antiquary, was b. in London, and studied at Camb.  For many years he made journeys over England in pursuit of his antiquarian studies.  He pub. about 20 works, among which are British Topography (1768), Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain (1786-99), an ed. of Camden’s Britannia, a translation of The Arabian Nights (1798), and various other treatises on archaeology, topography, and numismatics.