Personal History
Goodhue was born in London, Ontario, Canada in 1867 to Charles Frederic Goodhue, and was educated at London School in Ontario before being sent to Scotland to study at Merchiston Castle School. He matriculated to Caius College, Cambridge in 1885, competing his BA in 1890. After leaving Cambridge, Goodhue followed a medical career beginning his training at St Thomas' Hospital. Goodhue later took a position as Assistant House physician at the Hospital for Women at Soho Square, then Clinical Assistant at Evelina Children's Hospital. By 1898 he was practicing in Watford.
Goodhue enlisted into the Royal Fusiliers (23rd Sportsmen Battalion) in 1914 as a private. His profession was a physician being a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was sent to France in 1915. He was 48 years old when he enlisted having given his age as only 43. He was discharged as unfit for trench life due to his age (49) in 1916 with a 25% disability war pension.
After the War he retired to Budleigh Salterton in Devon.
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