Sir John Goodricke, 5th Baronet (1708–1789), was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1789.
He relinquished his Stockholm appointment in 1773 when he inherited a life interest in the Bramham Park estate from his wife's brother in law George Fox Lane.
The bill was subsequently proved to be a forgery and in the meantime a couple had opened an account using the money at another bank.
When a woman arrived at that bank with a draft on the new account she was detained and her partner was discovered by the Bow Street Runners in a waiting carriage.
The young man was quickly brought before the Bow Street magistrate, but Goodricke was surprised to discover he was the son of one of his gardeners in Yorkshire for whom he had procured a post at India House and given a sum of money.