Lord Gough was educated at Abberley Hall School and Winchester College, he served as an officer in the Irish Guards (Household Division, British Army), following in family tradition. Although he followed his father into the Guards, his most famous military forebear is undoubtedly Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. After leaving military service he worked as a stockbroker.

Cassian was born in 1962, the sixth of ten children. Educated at Ampleforth College and Henley Business Management College (Graduating with an MBA 2002), he was commissioned into the Irish Guards in 1982, serving in West Germany BAOR, Northern Ireland, London, Afghanistan with HALO trust in 1989, Berlin 1990, Oman, Egypt, Kosovo and Sierra Leone.…