Francis Goodricke (1621 – 18 August 1673) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1673. Goodricke was the son of Sir Henry Goodricke, of Great Ribston, Yorkshire. He was called to the bar at

Lincoln's Inn The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...

. In April 1659, Goodricke was elected Member of Parliament for Aldborough in the Third Protectorate Parliament.History of Parliament Online - Goodricke, Francis
/ref> In 1660, he was elected MP for Aldborough in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Aldborough in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1673. Goodricke became

King's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or ...

and a reader at Lincoln's Inn. The custom had been established that the reader should provide a feasts for the Inn, a factor used to explain a decline in the number of barristers prepared to become readers. Goodricke's feast in 1673 was said to be particularly sumptuous.David Lemmings ''Gentlemen and barristers: the Inns of Court and the English bar, 1680-1730''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodricke, Francis 1621 births 1673 deaths Members of Lincoln's Inn People from Knaresborough English MPs 1659 English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679 17th-century King's Counsel Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Yorkshire