Frederick William Jervis Goodhue (26 April 1867 – 30 December 1940) was a former
Scotland
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international
rugby union
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player. He played club rugby for
St. Thomas' and
London Scottish.
Personal history
Goodhue was born in
London
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,
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in 1867 to Charles Frederic Goodhue, and was educated at London School before being sent to
Scotland
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to study at
Merchiston Castle School
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. He matriculated to
Caius College
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, Cambridge in 1885, competing his BA in 1890.
After leaving Cambridge, Goodhue followed a medical career beginning his training at
St Thomas' Hospital
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. Goodhue later took a position as Assistant House physician at the Hospital for Women at
Soho Square
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, then Clinical Assistant at
Evelina Children's Hospital
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.
[ By 1898 he was practicing in Watford.
Goodhue enlisted into the ]Royal Fusiliers
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( 23rd Sportsmen Battalion) in 1914, when World War I
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began, as a private
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. 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
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in Devon.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Goodhue first came to note as a rugby player when at Cambridge, playing for the Cambridge University team. He won two sporting 'Blues', both in rugby in 1885 and 1886. On leaving Cambridge he joined St. Thomas' own rugby team while studying there, and continued his connection with rugby by turning out for London Scottish.
He later captained both the Barbarians and London Scottish rugby teams during the 1890s.
Provincial career
He played for West of Scotland District in their match against the East of Scotland District on 24 January 1891 in a 1 goal, 2 tries to 1 try win for the West district side.
In 1893 he was selected for East of Scotland District in the same match, but could not attend.
He was no doubt excused as he was selected for Middlesex
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to play against Yorkshire
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in the 1893 English County Championship
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. Five Scots were selected for Middlesex: Gregor MacGregor
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, George Campbell, William Wotherspoon, Robert MacMillan
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and Goodhue, all with London Scottish who played in the county. He played in that match, but Yorkshire won and then secured the championship.[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/18930131/046/0003]
International career
He played nine times for the Scottish national team, over 3 seasons; and was also a founder member of the first Barbarians
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rugby team of 1890.
References
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1867 births
1940 deaths
Canadian military personnel from Ontario
Canadian rugby union players
Sportspeople from London, Ontario
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Scottish rugby union players
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Royal Fusiliers soldiers
British Army personnel of World War I
Scotland international rugby union players
Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
Barbarian F.C. players
People educated at Merchiston Castle School
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Rugby union forwards
West of Scotland District (rugby union) players
Middlesex County RFU players