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{{short description|British Army general (1833-1898)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Sir William Howley Goodenough
| birth_date    = 4 April 1833
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=y|1898|10|24|1833|4|4}}
| birth_place   = Wells, Mendip District, Somerset, England
| death_place   = Erinville, [[Rondebosch]], [[Western Cape]]
| image         = Sir William Howley Goodenough.jpg
| caption       = Sir William Howley Goodenough
| nickname      = 
| allegiance    = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| serviceyears  = 1849-1898
| rank          = [[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]]
| branch        = {{army|United Kingdom}}
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| battles       = {{tree list}}
*[[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]]
**[[Siege of Lucknow]]
*[[Anglo-Egyptian War]]
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| awards        = {{nowrap|[[Order of the Bath|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]}}
| laterwork     = 
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| spouse        = 
| father        = [[Edmund Goodenough]]
| mother        = Frances Cockerell
| relatives     = {{nowrap|[[James Graham Goodenough]] (brother)}}<br>{{nowrap|[[Samuel Pepys Cockerell]] (maternal grandfather)}}
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[[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Sir William Howley Goodenough''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (4 April 1833 – 24 October 1898) was a [[British Army]] officer who became General Officer Commanding [[North-West District (British Army)|North-West District]].

==Military career==
Born the son of [[Edmund Goodenough]], Head Master of [[Westminster School]],<ref name=burke>Edmund Burke: Annual register. Longmans Green and Co., 1899</ref> Goodenough was commissioned as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Artillery]] on 20 June 1849.<ref>The new army list, and militia list. 1855, p. 240</ref> He was promoted to [[lieutenant]] on 1 April 1851, to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 1 January 1856 and to [[Major (rank)|major]] on 20 July 1858.<ref>Hart’s annual Army list, Militia list, and Imperial Yeomanry list. 1870, p. 167</ref> He fought and was wounded at the [[Siege of Lucknow]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]].<ref name=burke/> Promoted to [[lieutenant-colonel]] on 25 March 1869, he became military [[attaché]] in [[Vienna]] in 1871.<ref name=burke/>

He commanded the artillery during the [[Anglo-Egyptian War]] in 1882.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2501526/lieutenant-general-sir-william-howley-goodenough-1833-98|title=Lieutenant-General Sir William Howley Goodenough (1833-98) |publisher=Royal Collection|accessdate=23 December 2015}}</ref> He went on to be Inspector-General of Royal Artillery in August 1886, General Officer Commanding [[North-West District (British Army)|North-West District]] in July 1889 and General Officer Commanding, Chatham District in April 1890.<ref name=commands>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army Commands|accessdate=23 December 2015}}</ref> His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, [[Cape of Good Hope]] in December 1894, in which capacity he briefly acted as Governor of [[Cape Colony]] in 1897, before retiring in October 1898.<ref name=commands/>

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