Cecil Goodden

The son of John Robert Phelips Goodden, who would later become High Sheriff of Dorset, and Caroline Samuelson, he was born in Compton House, the family home of the Goodden family,[1] in the village of Over Compton, Dorset.

[3] Goodden made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1900 against London County.

[7] Goodden wrote a number of books during his life, including The story of the Sherborne Pageant.

[8] He married Hylda Woulfe in London on 2 December 1911, with the couple having four daughters and one son.

The London Gazette mentions him in October 1914 as having been given the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry.