A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Goodlad, Edward
GOODLAD. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 16; h-p., 27.)
Edward Goodlad entered the Navy, 2 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Neptune 98, Capts.Wm. O’Brien Drury, Sir Thos. Williams, and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, under the latter of whom he fought, as Midshipman, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. . In Dec. 1806 he removed to the St. George 98, Capt. Thos. Bertie, and while afterwards attached, from 1808 to 1810, to the Neptune and Pompée, flag-ships of Sir Alex. Cochrane, he assisted at the reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe. During the remaining portion of the war we find him successively serving, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, in the Blonde frigate, Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, Standard 64, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, Bulwark 74, Capt. Joshua Sidney Horton, Milford 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral T. F. Fremantle, and, as Lieutenant (commission dated 22 Jan. 1814), in the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas. Under the latter officer Mr, Goodlad, in 1813-14, witnessed the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. He was afterwards employed in the Boyne 98, Queen Charlotte 100, and Hyacinth 20, Capts. Fred. Lewis Maitland, Chas. Inglis, and Alex. Renton Sharpe, on the Cork and Home stations; and, being then placed on half-pay, was not again employed until appointed, 23 June, 1823, to the Cambridge 82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, in which ship he served on the South American station, until paid off in June, 1827. Since that period (with the exception of two years, from 14 April, 1836, to 10 April, 1838, during which he officiated as Agent for Transports Afloat) Lieut. Goodlad has not been employed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.