page_title: George Goodman (politician)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: George Goodman (politician) / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Beechwood Estate, Roundhay circa 1927
context_page_description: Sir George Goodman was an English wool-stapler, a magistrate for the borough and county of Leeds, as well as a Liberal politician. On 1 January 1836, he was elected the first Mayor of Leeds after the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and he served as a Member of Parliament for Leeds from 1852 to 1857.
context_section_description: Goodman was a member of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He once made a donation to the society of fourteen birds from Australia.  Although Goodman was recorded as  living at  Newton Hall estate in Potternewton, near Leeds  in 1846, he had  sold the estate to Arthur  Lupton by 1845. Goodman never married.  The Gentleman's Magazine  reported that he died on 13 October 1859 at his seat, Roundhay, near Leeds aged 67. He inherited his father's Roundhay estate, Goodman House,  which was renamed Beechwood by Arthur Lupton's brother, Francis Lupton, who had purchased the estate by 1860, following George's death. Goodman, a Baptist, was interred at Whitkirk Church.  In compliance with Goodman's request, an autopsy was conducted, revealing softened spinal marrow.
caption: Goodman House, built c.1820s (known as Beechwood by 1860) in  Roundhay
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