James Goodhart

Sir James Frederic Goodhart, 1st Baronet (24 October 1845 – 28 May 1916) was an English physician and paediatrician.^[1]

He was the son of Camden physician Alfred Harrington Goodhart and educated at Epsom Medical College in Epsom, Surrey after which he entered Guy's Hospital in 1864 to qualify in Medicine. In 1868 he took the diplomas MRCP and LRCP. In 1871 he gained an MB,CM with highest honours from Aberdeen University, followed by an MD in 1873 and in 1899 received an Honorary LL.D. At Guy's Hospital in 1872 he was appointed Surgical Registrar and in 1874 Medical Registrar. From 1871 he worked as an assistant curator at the Royal College of Surgeons museum for six years.

He was appointed an assistant physician at Guy's Hospital in 1877, and was a demonstrator in morbid pathology, working in the post-mortem room for thirteen years. He was appointed hospital physician in 1886, a post he held until his retirement in 1898. During this time he was also the curator of the Guy's museum. His interest in child diseases led to appointments at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, as House Surgeon when it opened in 1869, Physician to Out-patients in 1875 and Full Physician from 1881 to 1888. The experience he gained led him to write a successful textbook, The Student’s Guide to the Diseases of Children the first edition was published in 1885 extending to the tenth edition in 1913. From the seventh edition he was assisted by his one-time registrar Dr G.F.Still.

In 1880 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicianswhere he was an Examiner 1889-92, Councillor 1901-03 and Censor 1907 and where in 1885 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture on Morbid Arterial Tension. In 1891 he delivered the Harveian Lectures before the Harveian Society on Common Neuroses, or the Neurotic Element in Disease and its Rational Treatment.

After his retirement from Guy's he set up in private practice in Portland Place, London until his death in 1916. In 1912 he gave the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians on the Passing of Morbid Anatomy.

In the 1911 Coronation Honours of King George V he was made a baronet (of Portland Place in St Marylebone and Holtye in the County of Sussex).^[2] On his death he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son Sir Ernest Frederic Goodhart, 2nd Baronet. He had married Emma, the daughter of William Bennett.

References

• "SIR JAMES GOODHART 1845-1916" (PDF). Epsom College. Retrieved 19 September 2014.