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Edgbaston, Birmingham born all-rounder Harold Goodwin was educatedĀ at Marlborough College, where he was in the cricket First XI from 1903 to 1905, and was captain in 1905, scoring 193 and 40 against Free Foresters in his final year. He then went up to Jesus College, Cambridge University, where he gained Blues for both cricket and hockey.
A right-handed batsman, he made his first class debut for Cambridge against Northamptonshire at Fenners in May 1906, making 11 in his only innings and taking 2-45 and played 19 matches for Warwickshire until 1912 in addition to his 20 matches for Cambridge University, playing 39 first class matches in total. In those games he scored a single century, making 101, and 3 half centuries, with an aggregate of 1,255 runs at an average of 19.92. Bowling leg-breaks, with the ball he took 86 wickets atĀ 24.32 apiece, with a best performance of 7-33, taking 10 wickets in a match once and five wickets in an innings 5 times. It was said of him “Whenever he appeared, the side played up with a dash and vigour”.
During the First World War he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and he was killed in action at Arras, France on 24th April 1917 aged 31, where he is buried at the Faubourg-d’Amiens cemetery.