David Willoughby Gooding (16 September 1925 Ipswich – England 30 August 2019) was a British lecturer, author, and professor of Greek at Queen's University, Belfast.
[1] Born in Ipswich, England, Gooding was the youngest of six children: four brothers and two sisters.
[2] As well as academic monographs and articles relating to the Septuagint, Gooding published many Bible commentaries, apologetic works, and a manual on the New Testament's use of the Old.
[3] In 1989 Gooding and John Lennox began working on books and articles to be published in Russia and Ukraine.
During his time in Northern Ireland, David was an active member of a Gospel Assembly in Belfast, meeting in Apsley Hall.