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VETERINARY OBITUARY. 
The mourned — the loved — the lost ! — C hilde Haroi d. 
Mr. Joseph Goodwin, who died at his residence, College 
House, Hammersmith, on the 22d of last month, was born at Lees, 
near Cheadle, in Staffordshire, in the year 1768. He was the 
younger of two sons : his elder brother inheriting the family estate, 
himself was early apprenticed to a surgeon of some eminence at 
Uttoxeter, Mr. Riddlesdown. At the expiration of his time he 
came to London, entered Guy’s Hospital, and was a student at the 
same period that the late Sir Astley Cooper and also Professor 
Coleman were attending the hospital. After finishing his studies 
and passing his examination at the College of Surgeons, he went 
into practice as a medical man in the place of his nativity, where 
he remained until the year 1798, when he came to St. Pancras, 
and, after six months’ attendance at the Veterinary College, be- 
came a member of the veterinary profession. 
It was at Oxford, where he was matriculated, that Mr. Good- 
win first commenced the practice of veterinary medicine ; and he 
occasionally demonstrated the anatomy of the horse, in the reader’s 
chair, until his lectures were found to be too erudite for the taste of 
the collegians, and were prohibited by the chancellor of the uni- 
versity. He left Oxford to enter the Ordnance, and was appointed 
to the charge of the Sussex district, and lived at Lewes for some 
3 'ears, when he was obliged to retire from his duties in conse- 
quence of severe illness. 
From the Ordnance Mr. Goodwin went to Newmarket, at the 
solicitation of the Jockey-club; but he did not go down willingly, 
and had made up his mind not to stay there more than one year, the 
stipulated time which he was under agreement engaged by the 
Jockey-club to remain. 
On his return to the metropolis he went into practice, in con- 
nexion with Capt. Blagrave, in Oxford-street, and was conducting 
a veterinary business upon rather a large scale, when, a vacancy 
occurring in the Royal establishment, he was appointed, in 1812, 
Clerk of the Stables at Carlton-house ; and, subsequently, in 1815, 
veterinary surgeon to the Prince Regent. The duties of these ap- 
pointments he continued, with the assistance of his son, until the 
death of George IV, when he retired to his house at Hammersmith, 
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