Gough, J. B. (1817‒1886)

Gough, J. B., temperance orator, born in Kent; bred a bookbinder; early a victim to intemperance; took the pledge in 1842, and became an eloquent and powerful advocate of the temperance cause both in England and America (1817‒1886).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)