Nathaniel Gould - Colonel

Biography

Sometime Lt. Colonel. Married (1752) to Frances Mary Buckworth (d. 1759). Married (1759) to Elizabeth Cochrane, Boswell's mother's cousin. He had two children from his first marriage, Fanny (b. ca. 1755) and Buckley (possibly b. 1752 in Weston, Somerset).

According to Boswell (LJ031262), Lt-Col Gould participated in the Affair of St. Cast. (Link)

Also known as

• Colonel Gould

Life with James Boswell

Boswell first met Nathaniel Gould on 03/12-62. During the following months he often dined with the Goulds, and enjoyed their company. Boswell especially seems to have taken a liking to the Colonel. (In LJ080163 Boswell describes the Colonel's charming indolence)

Notes

Research info

Nathaniel Gould's daughter, Fanny, is probably the Fanny Gould who married Lt-Gen Charles Horneck (Link) in Bath in 1790, and died in 1832 (Link). If this is the case, she is also the Fanny Horneck who married the poet Rev. Thomas Sedgwick Whalley (1746-1828) in 1812 (Link), and who was of extravagant habits, and came to him in debt to the extent of some
thousands, for which he found himself responsible.¹

Note 1: Knapp, Oswald G. (1914). The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821. p. 281

Mentioned in

Nathaniel Gould is mentioned in:

• London Journal 1762-1763