Honorific-Prefix: | Lieutenant General |
Sir John Goodwin | |
Order: | 14th |
Office: | Governor of Queensland |
Term Start: | 13 July 1927 |
Term End: | 7 April 1932 |
Premier: | William McCormack Arthur Edward Moore |
Predecessor: | Sir Matthew Nathan |
Successor: | Sir Leslie Orme Wilson |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1871 |
Birth Place: | Kandy, Ceylon |
Death Place: | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
Nationality: | British |
Spouse: | Lilian Isabel Ronaldson |
Profession: | Military doctor |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Branch: | British Army |
Serviceyears: | 1893–1923 |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Unit: | Royal Army Medical Corps |
Commands: | Director General Army Medical Services (1918–23) |
Battles: | North-West Frontier First World War |
Mawards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in dispatches (3) Army Distinguished Service Medal (United States) Croix de guerre (Belgium) |
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin (24 May 1871 – 29 September 1960), known as Sir John Goodwin, was a British soldier and medical practitioner, who served as the Governor of Queensland from 1927 to 1932.
Goodwin was born on 24 May 1871 in Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a British Army surgeon father and an Australian mother. He was educated in England at Newton College, Devon, and undertook medical training at St Mary's Hospital, London where he graduated with a Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of Physicians in 1891.[1]
Commissioned a lieutenant in the British Army Medical Department, Goodwin was stationed in India where he saw active service on the North-West Frontier from 1897 to 1898 and was awarded to the Distinguished Service Order.
Goodwin served as Governor of Queensland from 13 July 1927 to 7 April 1932.