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'''Henry Hurry Iles Goodeve''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRCS|FRCP}} (1807 – 29 September 1884) was a British physician, surgeon, [[anatomy]] lecturer and member of the [[Bengal Medical Service]]. He became professor of anatomy and [[obstetrics]] at [[Calcutta Medical College]] and was later involved in the training of several Indian medical students on his return to the [[United Kingdom|UK]].

==Early life and family==
Henry Goodeve was born in 1807, in Bury Hall, [[Alverstoke]] near [[Gosport]] in [[Hampshire]].<ref name="Whitfield">{{cite journal |last1=Whitfield |first1=Michael J |title=Henry Hurry Goodeve (1807–1884), the first professor of Anatomy in India |journal=Journal of Medical Biography |date=26 March 2020 |pages=0967772020914113 |doi=10.1177/0967772020914113 |pmid=32216519 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0967772020914113 |language=en |issn=0967-7720|url-access=subscription}}</ref> His father, John Goodeve, was a banker from a Norfolk family, who had married three times. His mother was Elizabeth Hurry.<ref name=Munks>{{Cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1808|title=Munks Roll Details for Henry Hurry Iles Goodeve|website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk|access-date=19 May 2018}}</ref><ref name=plarr>[https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002016b.htm Goodeve, Henry Hurry Iles (1807–1884).] Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 17 May 2018.</ref>

He married Isabella Barlow.<ref name=Munks/>

==Medical career==
[[File:Four Indian medical students in London.png|thumb|Four Indian medical students in London<ref name="Whitfield"/>]]
Goodeve studied at [[St Bartholomew's Hospital]],<ref name=plarr/> and in 1829, graduated in medicine from the [[University of Edinburgh]], following which he lectured in anatomy at [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]], where his brother, Edward Goodeve taught. He also edited the ''[[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|Athenaeum]]'' with his cousin [[Frederick Denison Maurice]].<ref name=Munks/>

He joined the Bengal Medical Service in 1831 and was initially posted to Rampur, where he remained for four years. During this time, he took part in the suppression of the [[Kol people|Kol]] rebellion in 1832.<ref name=Munks/> In addition, his face became permanently paralysed when his facial nerve was injured following a bullet wound during a tiger hunt.<ref name=plarr/>

Following the establishment of the [[Calcutta Medical College]] in 1835, he was appointed the first professor of midwifery and anatomy there.<ref name=Munks/> He was an active reformer at the college, and created a substantial obstetric practice.<ref name=Munks/> His acquaintances included [[William Brooke O'Shaughnessy]] and [[James Ranald Martin|Sir Ronald Martin]].<ref name=plarr/>

In 1845, ill health resulted in medical retirement and a return to Britain. Using his retirement grant, and with the aim to extend English education to high-caste and other Hindus, he initiated a project for the medical supervision of four [[Brahmin]] students at [[University College London]], bringing them to London.<ref name=Munks/><ref name=plarr/><ref name="Lahiri2000">{{cite book|last=Lahiri|first=Shompa|title=Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfGOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|isbn=978-0-714-68049-1|page=3}}</ref>
[[Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty]] was his favourite student.<ref name="Calcutta1924">{{cite book|title=Calcutta Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewwxAQAAMAAJ|year=1924|publisher=University of Calcutta|pages=102–104}}</ref><ref>[https://www.asian-voice.com/Community/Soorjo-Coomar-Goodeve-Chuckerbutty-Sowing-the-seeds-of-change-for-generations-t Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty: Sowing the seeds of change for generations to come.] Abhiroop Sengupta, ''Asian Voice'', 12 August 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2018.</ref> Chuckerbutty added "Goodeve" to his own name, placing it before his surname.<ref name="Cunningham1997">"Unequal Contenders, Uneven Ground: Medical Encounters in British India, 1820–1920" by Deepak Kumar in {{cite book|editor=Andrew Cunningham & Bridie Andrews|title=Western Medicine As Contested Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2O7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA175|year=1997|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=Manchester|isbn=0-7190-4673-4|page=175}}</ref> The other three students were Dwarkanath Bose, Bholanath Das Bose and Gopal Chandra Seal. Funding came from a combination of Goodeve's contributions, the [[East India Company]] and [[Dwarkanath Tagore]].<ref name="Fisher2004">{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Michael H.|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA370|year=2004|publisher=Permanent Black|location=Delhi|isbn=81-7824-154-4|page=370}}</ref><ref name="SenGupta1970">{{Cite journal|last=Sen Gupta|first=P.C.|date=April 1970|title=Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty: The First Indian Contributor to Modern Medical Science.|journal=Medical History|volume=14|issue=2|pages=183–191 |pmc=1034039|pmid=4914687|doi=10.1017/s0025727300015374}}</ref>

Following the outbreak of the [[Crimean War]] in 1853, Goodeve volunteered for duty and was appointed inspector of civil hospitals at [[Renkioi]]. Here, he worked alongside [[Sir Spencer Wells]].<ref name=plarr/>

==Writing==
As surgeon to the Bengal Medical Service,<ref name=":0" /> Goodeve was the author of ''Hints for the General Management of Children in India in the Absence of Professional Advice'' (1844) which saw four editions before being taken over for the fifth edition by S.C.G. Chuckerbutty and the sixth by Joseph Ewart. It was renamed ''Birch's Management and Medical Treatment of Children in India'' under the authorship of [[Edward Alfred Birch]] of the IMS for the seventh edition. A fifth edition of Burch was published under the joint authorship of [[Charles Robert Mortimer Green|C.R.M. Green]] and [[Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage]].<ref name=":0">Green, C.R.M. & Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage. (1913) ''[https://archive.org/stream/managementmedica00bircrich#page/n7/mode/2up Birch's Management and Medical Treatment of Children in India]''. 5th edition. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co. pp. iii–vi.</ref>

==Later life and death==
On his return from the Crimean War, Goodeve retired to a house he had designed for himself in Bristol. He became a magistrate, visited county [[lunatic asylums]], [[reformatories]], and [[industrial schools]] and joined the [[Bristol Regiment of Rifle Volunteers]] as a captain in 1859.<ref>"Bristol Regiment of Rifle Volunteers" in ''The London Gazette'', 16 September 1859, p. 3432.</ref> In addition, he was appointed director of the [[Avonmouth Docks|Avonmouth Docks and Port and Pier Railway]]. After 1870, he became president of the [[Bristol and Clifton Society in Aid of Boarding Out Union Orphans and Deserted Children]].<ref name=Munks/><ref name=plarr/>

Goodeve and his wife Isabel never had biological children together,<ref name="Whitfield" /> but after Henry's retirement they took in and raised a number of boys and several other children.<ref name="Whitfield" /> The [[1871 United Kingdom census|1871 census]] lists a 12 year old [[Amy Bell]] as his great-niece living at Cook's Folly.<ref name="Census">{{cite book|last=|first=|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7619/images/GLSRG10_2568_2572-0184?usePUB=true&_phsrc=DOV41&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1275554&lang=en-GB|title=1871 England Census for Amy Elizabeth Bell|date=1871|publisher=|isbn=|location=Gloucestershire, Westbury On Trym|page=18|url-access=subscription|via=ancestry.co.uk}}</ref>

Henry Goodeve died on 29 September 1884.<ref name="plarr"/> On 6 May 1891 the joint secretaries to the Goodeve memorial committee put forward Rs.500 for an annual silver medal named the "Goodeve Medal", to be awarded to the student who attains the highest grade in the final M.B. examination.<ref name="calendar1939">{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97475|title=University Of Calcutta The Calendar 1939|date=1939|publisher=University Of Calcutta Press|location=Calcutta|pages=482}}</ref>

== References ==
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==Further reading==
* Whitfield, Michael. ''Dr Goodeve and Cook's Folly''. Bristol: Avon Local History and Archaeology, 2010. 46pp.

== External links ==
*[http://akdcts.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/henry-goodeve-of-calcutta-and-his.html Henry Goodeve of Calcutta and his Cooke's Folly]
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/4724856260 Tales of Cooks Folly Bristol]

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