William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart
| The Lord Goodhart | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Howard Goodhart 18 January 1933 |
| Died | 10 January 2017 (aged 83) |
William Howard Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, QC (18 January 1933 – 10 January 2017) was a British Liberal Democrat politician, a leading human rights lawyer, and a member of the House of Lords.
William Goodhart was the son of Arthur Lehman Goodhart and the brother of Charles Goodhart and Sir Philip Goodhart.
He was educated at Eton College, undertook National Service from 1951-1953, and graduated with a law degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1956 before winning a Harkness Fellowship to study law at Harvard University.
He was admitted to the bar in 1960 and made a Queen's Counsel in 1979.
A member of the Social Democratic Party, he contested the safe Conservative seat of Kensington in both the 1983 and 1987 general elections.
After the SDP merged with the Liberals, he subsequently fought the Kensington by-election of 1988 under the new Social and Liberal Democrats banner, finishing a weak third.
In the 1992 general election he contested the winnable seat of Oxford West and Abingdon now as a Liberal Democrats candidate. Goodhart cut the Conservative majority by over 1,000 votes down to 3,500 but still finished second.
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