James Goodhart

James Goodhart (1845–1916) was an English physician whose work extended into various medical fields, including morbid pathology and paediatrics.

He was appointed an assistant physician at Guy's Hospital in 1877, and was a demonstrator in morbid pathology, working in the post-mortem room for thirteen years.

The experiences he gained at the Evelina led him to write a successful textbook, The Student's Guide to the Diseases of Children, which was first published in 1885 and continued to a tenth edition in 1913.

In 1880 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, where he was an Examiner (1889–92), a Councillor (1901–03) and a Censor (1907), and where in 1885 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture on Morbid Arterial Tension.

In the 1911 Coronation Honours of King George V he was made a baronet (of Portland Place in St Marylebone and Holtye in the County of Sussex).