Patrick Goold

Patrick Goold MLA (1814 - 1886) was a prominent member of the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope.

As part of the British Army, he came to the Cape Colony in 1835, where he served on the frontier for the next few decades - working more with logistics than in actual combat.

Goold and Smith were elected as Members of the Cape Parliament (House of Assembly).

Controversially, Goold was a Catholic, and both he and Smith were relative liberals, elected by a conservative and Protestant district.

However he soon came to be one of a group of Eastern Province MPs who strongly supported the movement for Responsible Government (or "self-rule" as Goold preferred to call it) led by John Molteno, and the allied movement for Voluntaryism (complete separation of Church and State) led by Saul Solomon.