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{{short description|British Conservative politician (born 1943)}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Goodlad
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|PC}}
| image = Official portrait of Lord Goodlad crop 2.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2018
| office = [[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Australia|British High Commissioner to Australia]]
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
| primeminister = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start = 1 January 2000
| term_end = 1 September 2005
| predecessor = [[Alex Allan]]
| successor = [[Helen Liddell]]
| office1 = [[Chief Whip of the Conservative Party|Chief Whip of the House of Commons]]<br />[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]]
| primeminister1 = [[John Major]]
| term_start1 = 20 July 1995
| term_end1 = 2 May 1997
| predecessor1 = [[Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum|Richard Ryder]]
| successor1 = [[Nick Brown]]
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| office2 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for International Development]]
| leader2 = [[William Hague]]
| term_start2 = 30 June 1997
| term_end2 = 1 June 1998
| predecessor2 = [[Lynda Chalker]]
| successor2 = [[Gary Streeter]]
| office3 = [[Shadow Leader of the House of Commons]]
| leader3 = [[John Major]]
| term_start3 = 2 May 1997
| term_end3 = 30 June 1997
| predecessor3 = [[Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton|Ann Taylor]]
| successor3 = [[Gillian Shephard]]
| office4 = [[Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons]]
| leader4 = [[John Major]]
| term_start4 = 2 May 1997
| term_end4 = 23 June 1997
| predecessor4 = [[Donald Dewar]]
| successor4 = [[James Arbuthnot]]
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| office5 = [[Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom)|Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]]
| primeminister5 = [[John Major]]
| term_start5 = 15 April 1992
| term_end5 = 20 July 1995
| predecessor5 = [[Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness|The Earl of Caithness]]
| successor5 = [[Jeremy Hanley]]
| office6 = [[Chief Whip|Deputy Chief Government Whip]]<br />[[Treasurer of the Household]]
| primeminister6 = [[Margaret Thatcher]]<br />[[John Major]]
| term_start6 = 14 July 1990
| term_end6 = 15 April 1992
| predecessor6 = [[Tristan Garel-Jones]]
| successor6 = [[David Heathcoat-Amory]]
| office7 = [[Comptroller of the Household]]
| primeminister7 = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
| term_start7 = 25 July 1989
| term_end7 = 14 July 1990
| predecessor7 = [[Tristan Garel-Jones, Baron Garel Jones|Tristan Garel-Jones]]
| successor7 = [[George Young, Baron Young of Cookham|George Young]]
| office8 = [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State]] [[Department of Energy (United Kingdom)|for Energy]]
| primeminister8 = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
| term_start8 = 11 September 1984
| term_end8 = 13 June 1987
| predecessor8 = [[Giles Shaw]]
| successor8 = [[Michael Spicer (politician)|Michael Spicer]]
| office9 = [[Lords of the Treasury|Lord Commissioner of the Treasury]]
| primeminister9 = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
| term_start9 = 16 February 1982
| term_end9 = 10 September 1984
| predecessor9 = [[Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree|Tony Newton]]
| successor9 = [[John Major]]
| office10 = [[Chief Whip|Assistant Government Whip]]
| term_start10 = 9 January 1981
| term_end10 = 5 February 1982
| primeminister10 = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
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| office11 = Member of the [[House of Lords]]<br />[[Lord Temporal]]
| term_start11 = 20 July 2005
| term_end11 =  29 February 2024<br />[[Life peer]]age
| office12 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Eddisbury]]<br />{{nobold|[[Northwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Northwich]] (1974–1983)}}
| term_start12 = 28 February 1974
| term_end12 = 28 June 1999
| predecessor12 = [[John Foster (MP for Northwich)|John Foster]]
| successor12 = [[Stephen O'Brien]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|7|4|df=y}}
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| death_date = 
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| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| spouse = Cecilia Hurst
| alma_mater = [[King's College, Cambridge]]
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'''Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|KCMG|PC}} (born 4 July 1943), is a British politician who served as [[Chief Whip]] of the parliamentary [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] from 1995 to 1997, and [[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Australia|British High Commissioner to Australia]] from 2000 to 2005. He was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Northwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Northwich]] and later for [[Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Eddisbury]] from 1974 to 1999. Goodlad sat in the [[House of Lords]] as a [[life peer]] from 2005 to 2024.

==Early life==
Born in 1943,<ref>{{Rayment|G|2|date=December 2021}}</ref> Goodlad attended [[Marlborough College]] and read law at [[King's College, Cambridge]].

==Parliamentary career==
He first stood for Parliament in [[1970 United Kingdom general election|1970]] when he contested [[Crewe (UK Parliament constituency)|Crewe]], but was beaten by [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]'s [[Scholefield Allen]].

Goodlad was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] successively for [[Northwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Northwich]] (1974–83) and [[Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Eddisbury]] (1983–99). He also served as a junior [[Foreign Office]] Minister then as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[John Major]]'s [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]] and [[Chief Whip]], for which in the [[1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours]] he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [[Order of St. Michael and St. George]] (KCMG).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54850 |date=2 August 1997 |page=8912 |supp=y}}</ref> Following the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 election]], he served in the [[Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)|Shadow Cabinet]] as [[Shadow Leader of the House of Commons]], [[Shadow Secretary of State for International Development]] and [[Conservative Chief Whip|Opposition Chief Whip]].

===Membership of Lloyd's of London===
Goodlad was an underwriting member of the [[Lloyd's of London]] insurance market, commencing in 1977 and ceasing in 1990. His membership coincided in the latter years with the rising tide of asbestos losses and his share is estimated to have been about £90,000.

==High Commissioner to Australia==
[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] then appointed Goodlad as High Commissioner to Australia.  Goodlad accepted the office of [[Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds]] on 28 June 1999 to formally vacate his parliamentary seat,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55544 |date=6 July 1999 |page=7313 |city=London }}</ref> triggering the [[1999 Eddisbury by-election]].

Goodlad took up office as High Commissioner in 2000. At the end of his term in 2005, he was replaced by former [[Secretary of State for Scotland]], [[Helen Liddell]].

==House of Lords==
On 19 July 2005, he was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Goodlad''', of [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]] in the County of [[Lincolnshire]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=57710 |date=22 July 2005 |page=9525}}</ref> and was [[Introduction (House of Lords)|introduced]] in the [[House of Lords]] the following day.<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/minutes/050720/ldminute.htm House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings for Wednesday 20 July 2005]. Retrieved 9 September 2012.</ref> He sits on the Conservative benches and was chairman of the [[Constitution Committee (House of Lords)|Constitution Select Committee]] from 2008 to 2010.

In 2007, Goodlad was appointed Chairman of the [[Britain–Australia Society]].

==Personal life==
Goodlad married Cecilia Barbara Hurst, granddaughter of [[David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford]] in 1968 and has two sons.

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19970721182513/http://www0.bbc.co.uk/election97/cabinet/shadow.htm "The Shadow Cabinet" – BBC Election '97]
*[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/571259.stm "Another Tory wooed by Blair" – BBC News]
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-alastair-goodlad | Alastair Goodlad }}

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