Roger Goldsworthy

Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy KCMG (1839 – 6 May 1900) was a British colonial administrator.

Roger Goldsworthy was born in Marylebone, Middlesex[citation needed] in 1839, and educated at Sandhurst, the younger brother of Major-General Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy MP (1837–1911).

During the Indian rebellion of 1857 he won medals and was mentioned in dispatches.

From 1868 to 1870, Goldsworthy was Inspector General of Police in Sierra Leone; during this time he married a widow named Eliza Egan.

He was then commandant of the Hausa Armed Police and District Magistrate of Lagos until 1873.