Harold Goodwin was born on 5 June 1910, the son of Barnet and Rebecca Goodwin. He studied medicine at University College and St Bartholomew’s. He served in the RAMC throughout the war and on demobilisation specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, being registrar, RMO and subsequently senior registrar at Queen Charlotte’s, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. He was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital, London, and later to the Wessex Regional Hospital Board in Bournemouth, where he continued in general practice after retirement. He died on 26 February 2005.