 After the War Gough-Calthorpe served as British Commissioner in the Ottoman Empire during a time of considerable political instability associated with the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.Born the son of Lieutenant-General Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe, by his marriage to Eliza Maria Chamier, His grandfather on his mother's side was the novelist Captain Frederick Chamier RN.Gough-Calthorpe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS "Britannia" on 15 January 1878.