Charles Goodson-Wickes

Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes, DL (born 7 November 1945) is a company director, business consultant and consulting physician.

From 1987 to 1997 he was the British Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon. He served in The Life Guards in the British Army, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel, and served in the First Gulf War. He was the principal for two occupational health practices, advising Barclays Bank, Rio Tinto and other multi-national companies from 1980 to 1994. He was a consulting physician for BUPA from 1976 to 1986. He was the founder chairman of the Countryside Alliance. He is the great-grandson of Sir Frank Fox, OBE (1874-1960).

Goodson-Wickes was educated at Charterhouse, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Inner Temple. He is qualified both as a physician (1970) and as a barrister (called to the Bar in 1972).

A lifelong member of the Conservative Party, Goodson-Wickes was elected to the House of Commons in 1987 representing Wimbledon, having previously unsuccessfully contested Islington Central in 1979. While an MP he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Departments of the Treasury, Environment and Transport.

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