James Goodrich (Royal Navy officer)
{{Short description|Royal Navy admiral}}
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|birth_date=28 June 1851
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Pacific Station
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Admiral Sir James Edward Clifford Goodrich {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCVO}} (28 June 1851 – 1 September 1925) was the last Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.
Naval career
Goorich was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1872,{{London Gazette|issue=23893|page=3923|date=6 September 1872}} and promoted to captain in 1895.{{Cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=560 |title=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904-1945 |access-date=3 October 2010 |archive-date=24 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724083827/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=560 |url-status=dead }} From 25 March 1900 he was in command of the battleship HMS Colossus, guardship at Holyhead,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=28 March 1900 |page=7 |issue=36101}} and in November 1901 he and the crew transferred to the HMS Resolution, which succeeded as guardship. On 7 June 1902 he was appointed in command of the new battleship HMS London, which was commissioned for service in the Mediterranean Fleet,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=3 May 1902 |page=14 |issue=36758}} and left Portsmouth in early July for Gibraltar.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=9 July 1902 |page=5 |issue=36815}} Briefly returning to home waters in August, London served as flagship for the Coronation Review for King Edward VII at Spithead on 16 August 1902, before she was back with the Mediterranean Fleet.{{London Gazette|issue=27560|page=3525|date=2 June 1903}} He then served as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station from his appointment in 1903 to its closure in 1905.{{Cite web |url=http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/marpac/10/10-w_eng.asp?section=0&category=81&id=436 |title=Canadian Navy Maritime Forces Pacific |access-date=3 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613030037/http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/marpac/10/10-w_eng.asp?section=0&category=81&id=436 |archive-date=13 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} Improved communications, the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the need to concentrate warships in British waters to counter the developing German High Seas Fleet, meant that the station was closed down at sunset on 1 March 1905.{{cite web|url=http://www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/info_pages/history/naden.html |title=History of CFB Esquimalt and Naden |accessdate=2010-02-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114181615/http://navalandmilitarymuseum.org/info_pages/history/naden.html |archivedate=14 January 2010 }} After being promoted to rear admiral in October 1905, he was appointed admiral superintendent of the Gibraltar Dockyard in 1906.[http://members.cox.net/ggtext/edwardchichester_obit.html Obituary of Sir Edward Chichester]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Times, 18 September 1906 His final promotion was to Admiral in 1913{{London Gazette|issue=28725|page=3913|date=3 June 1913}} on his retirement,{{London Gazette|issue=28726|page=3992|date=6 June 1913}} although he was recalled to serve as a captain in the Royal Naval Reserve during World War I.{{London Gazette|issue=29050|page=797|date=26 January 1915}}
He died in 1925 and a memorial to him stands in St Cyr's Churchyard in Stinchcombe in Gloucestershire.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/GLS/Stinchcombe/MIs.html |title=Some memorial inscriptions |access-date=3 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612232545/http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/GLS/Stinchcombe/MIs.html |archive-date=12 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Family
He married Adeline Rose Helbert who helped with the founding of West Downs School.[http://westdowns.com/cornhist.htm West Downs School History]
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