T. D. Good
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| birth_name = Thomas Douglas Good
| birth_date = 1874
| birth_place = Ceylon, United Kingdom
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1958|4|26|1874||}}
| death_place = Dublin, Ireland
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Thomas Douglas Good (1874 – 26 April 1958) was an Irish badminton player.
Biography
Good became the first non-English player to win a title at the All England Open Badminton Championships when playing with John Stokes in the men's handicap doubles at the 1902 All England Badminton Championships.{{cite news |title=Badminton Association Open Tournament |work=Field |date=22 March 1902 |accessdate=24 March 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/19020322/255/0038| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=Badminton Association Open Tournament, results page 39 |work=Field |date=22 March 1902 |accessdate=24 March 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002446/19020322/256/0039| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=The Annual Badminton Association Tournament|work=London Evening Standard |date=19 March 1902 |accessdate=24 March 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/19020319/129/0010| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
Good, alongside his wife Ada Good, took part of the first international badminton match to be played in Ireland in 1903.{{Cite book|last=Peard|first=F.W.|title=Sixty Years of Irish Badminton|year=1995|location=Dublin|pages=44}} He reached the men's singles final, losing to Blayney Hamilton. He won the Irish Open men's doubles with Hamilton in 1904, in 1907 and 1908.{{cite book |last1=Massey |first1=S.M. |title=Badminton |date=1911 |publisher=G. Bell & Sons LTD |location=London |pages=107, 144–146}} With Arthur Cave he won the men's doubles at the Irish National Badminton Championships in 1913.
In 1953, Good, his wife, Sir George Thomas, and Leonard Ransford attended a Golden Jubilee lunch held by the Badminton Union of Ireland, as the only four surviving players from the 1903 international matches. They had four children, three of whom also played badminton at national and international level, Derreen, Barbara, and Norman.
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Category:19th-century Irish people