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William Goodenough

Royal Navy Admiral (1867–1945)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Admiral
name	Sir William Goodenough
honorific_suffix
birth_date
death_date
birth_place	Portsmouth, England
death_place	Coulsdon, Surrey, England
allegiance	United Kingdom United Kingdom
serviceyears	1882–1930
rank	Admiral
commands
2nd Light Cruiser Squadron
Africa Station
Nore Command
branch	[[File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg	23px]] Royal Navy
battles
awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Member of the Royal Victorian Order
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spouse	Henrietta Margaret Stanley
father	James Graham Goodenough
relatives	Edward Stanley (father-in-law)
Venetia Stanley (sister-in-law)

2nd Light Cruiser Squadron Africa Station Nore Command

World War I
- Battle of Heligoland Bight
- Battle of Dogger Bank
- Battle of Jutland Member of the Royal Victorian Order Venetia Stanley (sister-in-law)

Admiral Sir William Edmund Goodenough (2 June 1867 – 30 January 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War I. He was the son of James Graham Goodenough.

Naval career

Goodenough joined the Royal Navy in 1882. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1905. He was given command of the cruiser HMS Cochrane in 1910 and of the battleship HMS Colossus in 1911.

He served in World War I and commanded the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from 1913 to 1916, participating in the battles of Heligoland Bight in August 1914, Dogger Bank in January 1915, and Jutland in May to June 1916. In the King's Birthday Honours of 3 June 1916, Goodenough was appointed an Additional Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.). He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 10 June.

After the War he became Superintendent at Chatham Dockyard and then, from 1920, Commander-in-Chief at the Africa Station. He was made Vice Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1923 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1924. He was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-camp to the King from 1929 to 1930. He retired in 1930.

In retirement Goodenough was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1930 to 1933. He died in 1945.

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"Archived copy".
[http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/William_Edmund_Goodenough The Dreadnought Project]
[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/GOODENOUGH1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]
[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_goodenough_w_e.html History of War]

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