James Childs Gould (9 September 1882 – 2 July 1944)[1] was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central from 1918 to 1924.
[4] Gould left school at the age of 14 and started work for 4 shillings a week.
In 1901 he obtained a position as an ordinary sailor on the ship Clan Graham, and sailed for South Africa where he worked as a piecemeal laborer.
The business closed within a year and Gould won a £20,000 award against a partner in New York for misrepresentation.
As his debtors were congregating, and an MP could not be bankrupt, he decided not to contest the 1924 election, and his Parliamentary career came to an end.