Background
Goodall was born on 9 October 1931 and educated at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, and Trinity College, Oxford where he gained first class honours.
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David Goodall
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Trinity College; Ampleforth College.
Career
He was High Commissioner to India from 1987-1991. Goodall joined the diplomatic service in 1956 and served in Austria, Germany, Indonesia and Kenya, before spending 1997-1991 as the British High Commissioner, the equivalent of Ambassador, in India. He also spent time working in the Cabinet Office, where he helped negotiate the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement.
After his retirement he was Chairman of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation, 1995-2000, and President of the Irish Genealogical Research Society, 1992-2010.
During the 1980s, Goodall was one of the most senior British officials representing the United Kingdom negotiating with the Irish government on Northern Ireland. Goodall was taught to paint at Ampleforth College, but started to paint seriously some twenty years later after reading Winston Churchill"s book Painting as a Pastime.
He works in ink and watercolour, and has held one-man shows in North Yorkshire, London, Durham, Hull and Delhi. He has published two books of his paintings: Remembering India (1997, Scorpion Cavendish.
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