Henry Gooch

Sir Henry Cubitt Gooch (7 December 1871 – 15 January 1959) was a British barrister, educationalist and Conservative politician.

He was the second son of Charles Cubitt Gooch, merchant banker, and Mary Blake, and an older brother to George Peabody Gooch. He was born in Paddington and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He had a keen interest in education, and was a member of the London School Board from 1897 until its abolition in 1904. In 1907 he was elected to the London County Council, representing Dulwich for the Conservative-supported Municipal Reform Party. He presided over a number of the LCC education committees. He was subsequently appointed to the secondary and technical Burnham Committees which set the salary scales for teaching staff.

He married Maud Mary Hudleston in 1897, and they had three children. They lived together at Inholmes in Lambourn in Berkshire for several years. He died on 15 January 1959, aged 87.