Born about 1799, Goodhugh was for some time a bookseller at 155 Oxford Street, London.
He became prominent by learned criticisms of John Bellamy's new translation of the Bible, in the Quarterly Review for April 1818 and July 1820.
[1] Goodhugh died at Chelsea, London on 23 May 1842, aged 43, leaving a son and a daughter.
[1] For a few years before his death, Goodhugh had been working on a biblical encyclopedia, which he had compiled to the letter R. The Bible Cyclopaedia appeared in two volumes, the second in 1843 carrying an Advertisement with a letter from William Cooke Taylor on the completion of the work, and a small amount of information on contributors.
[2] Goodhugh also published:[1] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds.