Goodall was born in 1874 in
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the son of Anne Strickland Blaydes (d.1908) and her husband, Joseph Goodall (d.1901), senior surgeon in the Queensland Government Service. He was educated at
Harrow School and Eastbourne then studied medicine at the
University of London graduating with an MB. He did postgraduate study at the
University of Edinburgh and in
Paris. He became Professor of Physiology and Biology at the
City of London Hospital. In 1910, he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were
John William Henry Eyre,
John Cameron,
Sir Thomas Oliver, and
Arthur Robinson. In 1914 he joined
Dr Frederick William Price as a Physician at the newly built
National Heart Hospital on Westmoreland Street in
London. He died on 22 November 1934. ==Family==