Mount Gough

2. Polygata arillata, Hamilt.–Wight et Arn. Prod. vol. i. p.39. Very rare. A shrub on Mount Gough, and another on Mount Victoria (since destroyed by the Chinese), were all that had been seen.

1851, George Bentham, “Florula Hongkongensis: an Enumeration of the Plants collected in the Island of Hong-Kong, by J. G. Champion, 95th Reg., the determination revised and the new species described by George Bentham, Esq.”, in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, →OCLC, page 261

I was instructed to deliver the 6-inch How shells and cartridges to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough. I arrived at Aberdeen headquarters, where the lorries with loading parties and guards were waiting.

2009 [1941 December 20], Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54

Gough was buried in Dublin and an equestrian statue of him was erected in the Phoenix Park. It was later vandalised and moved to England. He was also commemorated by Mount Gough on Hong Kong island, which is now back in the hands of the Chinese.

2012, Joe O'Shea, “Sir Hugh Gough – Limerick's Opium Warlord”, in An Account of Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem: Concerning the affairs of the Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110