Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams

Sir Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams KBE CB CMG (16 May 1860 Jamesbrook, County Cork – 15 April 1935) was an officer in the British Army who gained the rank of Colonel in the Royal Artillery.

Sir

Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams
Born16 May 1860
Jamesbrook, County Cork
DiedApril 15, 1935(1935-04-15) (aged 74)
Edinburgh
Buried
Dean Cemetery
AllegianceBritish Army
RankColonel
UnitRoyal Artillery
Relations
Richard Wallis Goold-Adams (father)

Mary Sarah Wrixon-Becher (mother)

William Wrixon-Becher (grandfather)
The grave of Sir Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams, Dean Cemetery

Life

He was born at Jamesbrook Hall in County Cork in Ireland a younger son of Richard Wallis Goold-Adams and his wife, Mary Sarah Wrixon-Becher, daughter of Sir William Wrixon-Becher.[1] His older brothers included Hamilton Goold-Adams.

He was appointed to the Ordnance Board in 1910.[2]

He climbed Paektu Mountain with Alfred Cavendish in 1891, of which he supplied an account published by Cavendish in 1894.[3] Lloyd George appointed Goold-Adams to the post of Comptroller of the Munitions Inventions Department of the Ministry of Munitions.[4]

He served in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 and was Mentioned in Dispatches.[5]

He was promoted to Lt Colonel in 1906 and in 1908 left the Royal Artillery to join the Territorial Army.[6]

In 1916 he was living on Princes Street in Edinburgh and was corresponding with David Lloyd George (in his capacity as Secretary of State for War) regarding body armour for troops during the First World War.[7]

He died in Edinburgh on 15 April 1935 and is buried in Dean Cemetery in the west of the city.[8][9]

Publications
  • Korea and the Sacred White Mountain (1891)

References
  1. "Sir Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams".
  2. "Sir Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams". geni_family_tree. Geni. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  3. Cavendish, Alfred Edward John; Adams, Henry Edward Fane Goold- (1894). Korea and the Sacred White Mountain: Being a Brief Account of a Journey in Korea in 1891. Liverpool: G. Philip & Son.
  4. Pattison, Michael (1983). "Scientists, Inventors and the Military in Britain, 1915-19: The Munitions Inventions Department". Social Studies of Science. 13 (4): 521–568. doi:10.1177/030631283013004004. ISSN 0306-3127. JSTOR 284847. S2CID 145727609.
  5. London Gazette 13 September 1901
  6. "Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (36) Goold-Adams of Kilbree House and Jamesbrook". 6 May 2013.
  7. "H.E.F.Goold Adams, Princes Street, to (Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George)".
  8. Grave of Sir H E Goold-Adams, Dean cemetery
  9. "Sir Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams K.B.E, C.B., C.M.G. 1860 - 1935 BillionGraves Record".
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