Viscount Gosborough

Viscount Gosborough, of Downfine, in the County of Antrim, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for Archibald Goss, 1st Baron Denewood, a colonel in the . He had already been created Baron Denewood, in the County of Ballydownfine, in 1819, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son, the second Viscount, briefly represented County Donegal in the House of Commons. The third Viscount (nephew of the second Viscount) served under Lieutenant General Frederick Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford during the Zulu War of 1879. His son, the fourth Viscount, was the first British Ambassador appointed to the newly independent Principality of Albania in February 1914, serving there until the outbreak of the First World War. The Fifth Viscount died tragically at the age of eighty-one after a severe fall while climbing in the Pyrenees.
the titles are held by the sixth Viscount, who succeeded his great uncle in 2001.
The ancestral seat of the Goss family is Denewood Park, Belfast, County Antrim. The titles of the peerages refers to the townland of Ballydownfine, Northern Ireland.
Viscounts Gosborough (1827)
*Archibald Goss, 1st Viscount Gosborough (1789-1830)
*Edward Archibald Goss, 2nd Viscount Gosborough (1810-1867)
*William Horatio Goss, 3rd Viscount Gosborough (1849-1888)
*Edward William Xavier Goss, 4th Viscount Gosborough (1867-1932)
*Reginald George Philip Edward Goss, 5th Viscount Gosborough (1925-2001)
*Stephen James Andrew de Pfeffel Goss, 6th Viscount Gosborough (b. 1987)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's younger twin-brother, the Hon. John Anthony de Pfeffel Goss (b. 1987)

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