Sir Victor Martin Reeves Goodman KCB OBE MC (14 February 1899 - 29 September 1967) was a British public servant and Clerk of the Parliaments from 1959 to 1963.[1]
He was educated at Eton College. He served in the First World War with the Coldstream Guards, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1919.
In 1920 he became a Clerk in the House of Lords. He became Judicial Taxing Officer in 1934,[2] Principal Clerk of the Judicial Office in 1946, Reading Clerk in 1949,[3] and Clerk Assistant in 1953.[4] He was appointed Clerk of the Parliaments in 1959 and retired in 1963.[5] [6]
From 1941 to 1945 he was Chief ARP and Security Officer of the Palace of Westminster.
From 1949 to 1963 he was a trustee of the British Museum. From 1963 until his death he was a trustee of the Natural History Museum.
He was appointed OBE in 1946, CB in 1951, and KCB in 1959.
In 1928 he married Julian Morrell, daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell; they had two sons and a daughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1946, and in 1948 he married Anstice Crawley. She died in 2001.[7]