His father Apollos Harrison Gouge, who died before 1914[2] and may have been born in
Yale, British Columbia in 1826 after being proved insolvent several times was in 1859 appointed the contractor for the railway line to Kapunda[3] then the pipeline from the Thorndon Park reservoir to the city[4] and built the
causeway between
Victor Harbor and
Granite Island.[5] He donated and installed a drinking fountain at the junction of
King William Street and
Currie/Waymouth streets.[6][7] The In 1861 an Act of Parliament was passed, granting him the right to build a railway from the Wallaroo mine to the Wallaroo jetty.[8]
He was a musician and singer, performing at a couple of benefits for the explorer
John McKinlay.[9][10]
He was in 1857 the first to manufacture something like
town gas in South Australia,[11] and owned a tiger[12] and an elephant.[13]
He married May Ann Walsh in 1852; in 1863 he was charged with deserting his wife.[14]
He exhibited a sketch Horse's Head with the
South Australian Society of Arts at Adelaide in 1863, possibly as a student of
Charles Hill.[15]
In the late 1860s he supervised construction of the Granite Island causeway for Borrow & Gouge, his father's contracting business.[16]
He worked as a land and commission agent in
Wallaroo, then from 1868 to 1877 at
Mannum, then in
Adelaide. In 1885 he was licensed as an assessor under the Land and Income Tax Act.[17]
He was appointed Public Actuary on 16 March 1894, and was responsible for creating the office and its procedures.[18]
He was a Fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society, and was elected a corresponding member of the Statistical Society of Paris, on the nomination of M. Bellom, engineer with the French Department of Mines, and M. Le Nasseur, the President of the Society.[17]
He married Emily Mills (c. 1846 – 19 June 1936) on 31 May 1870; they had no children.
^"South Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XL, no. 6681. New South Wales, Australia. 5 November 1859. p. 4. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Water Supplies". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LVI, no. 17, 217. South Australia. 20 December 1913. p. 6. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Personal". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LX, no. 18, 435. South Australia. 13 November 1917. p. 4. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"The Royal Exchange". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXXIX, no. 26, 131. South Australia. 26 September 1924. p. 7. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia. In 1908 the fountain was removed to the corner of West Terrace and Henley Beach Road
^"Drinking fountains". State Library of South Australia. 9 July 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
^"Personalities". Quiz and The Lantern. Vol. VIII, no. 398. South Australia. 8 April 1897. p. 6. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Performing Animals". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 25, 608. South Australia. 24 January 1923. p. 11. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Gouge, Herbert". Design and Art, Australia, Online. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
^"Victor Harbor". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LIII, no. 16, 291. South Australia. 3 January 1911. p. 9. Retrieved 20 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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ab"Concerning People". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXVIII, no. 20, 880. South Australia. 13 October 1913. p. 8. Retrieved 19 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.