John Goodwin (governor)

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix = Sir
name = John Goodwin
honorific-suffix =
KCB, KCMG, DSO

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order = 14th
office = Governor of Queensland
term_start = 13 July 1927
term_end = 7 April 1932
lieutenant =
monarch = King George V
predecessor = Sir Matthew Nathan
successor = Sir Leslie Orme Wilson
birth_date = birth date|1871|5|24|df=y
birth_place = Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
death_date = death date and age|1960|9|29|1871|5|24|df=y
death_place = Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
nationality = flagicon|UK British
spouse = Lilian Isabel Ronaldson
relations =
children =
residence =
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occupation =
profession = Military doctor
religion =


footnotes =
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin KCB, KCMG, DSO (24 May 1871 – 29 September 1960), known as Sir John Goodwin, was a British soldier and medical practitioner, who served as the Governor of the Australian state of Queensland between 1927 and 1932.

Goodwin was born in 1871 in Kandy, Ceylon to a British Army surgeon father and an Australian mother. He was educated in England at Newton College, Devon, and undetook medical training at St Mary's Hospital, London where he graduated with a Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (M.R.C.S.) and Royal College of Physicians (L.R.C.P.) in 1891.Paul D. Wilson, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090048b.htm Goodwin, Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman (1871 - 1960)] , "Australian Dictionary of Biography", Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 49-50.]

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.

Governor of Queensland

Goodwin served as Governor of Queensland from 13 July 1927 to 7 April 1932.

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