Sir Philip Goodhart
Photographed in 1959
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 4 May 1979 – 5 January 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	James Dunn
Succeeded by	David Mitchell
Member of Parliament forBeckenham
In office 21 March 1957 – 16 March 1992
Preceded by	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
Succeeded by	Piers Merchant
Personal details
Born	Philip Carter Goodhart (1925-11-03)3 November 1925 London, England
Died	5 July 2015(2015-07-05) (aged 89)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Valerie Winant ​ ​ (m. 1950; died 2014)​
Children	7 (includingDavid)
Relatives	Arthur Lehman Goodhart (father) William Goodhart (brother) Charles Goodhart (brother)
Education	Hotchkiss School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

Sir Philip Carter Goodhart (3 November 1925 – 5 July 2015) was a BritishConservative politician, the son ofArthur Lehman Goodhart.

Goodhart attended theHotchkiss School inLakeville, Connecticut. He contestedConsett in 1950 whilst still a student atTrinity College, Cambridge. He was electedMember of Parliament forBeckenham ata 1957 by-election, and continued to represent the seat until his retirement in 1992. One of the unsuccessful candidates for the nomination in 1957 was the youngMargaret Thatcher.

In his bookReferendum (1971), Goodhart argued that theEEC membership referendum, then under discussion in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) joining theEuropean Economic Community (EEC), could in fact serve to entrench constitutional safeguards that the UK lacked, quotingArthur Balfour's contribution to the debate on the Parliament Bill (later theParliament Act 1911): "In the referendum lies our hope of getting the sort of constitutional security which every other country but our own enjoys ..." (Referendum, p. 205). He wrote an account of the 1975 referendum campaign,Full-hearted Consent (1975), and alsoThe 1922: The Story of the 1922 Committee (1973).

Goodhart was a junior Northern Ireland minister (1979–1981) and a junior defence minister (1981). He was also a member of the Founding Council of theRothermere American Institute at theUniversity of Oxford.^[1]

In 1950, Goodhart married Valerie Forbes Winant, niece ofJohn Gilbert Winant.^[2] They had seven children: Arthur, Sarah,David, Rachel, Harriet, Rebecca and Daniel.^[3] The couple lived in Whitebarn, Youlbury Woods, Oxford. Goodhart died in 2015, aged 89.^[2] His son David is the director of theDemos thinktank and writes forProspect magazine.

• —; Henderson, Ian (1958).The Hunt for Kimathi. Hamish Hamilton.ASIN B0000CJZHT.
• — (1965).Fifty ships that saved the world : the foundation of the Anglo-American alliance. Heinemann.ASIN B001AGS7YE.
• —; Chataway, Christopher J. (1968).War Without Weapons. W. H. Allen.ISBN 978-0-49100431-2.
• — (1971).Referendum. Tom Stacey Ltd.ISBN 978-0-85468063-4.
• —; Branston, Ursula (1973).The 1922: The Story of the 1922 Committee. Macmillan.ISBN 978-0-33314386-5.
• — (1976).Full-hearted Consent: Story of the Referendum Campaign and the Campaign for the Referendum. Davis-Poynter.ISBN 978-0-70670206-4.
• — (2005).The Royal Americans. Wilton65.ISBN 978-1-90506001-6.

• Wood, Alan (June 1987)."The Times" Guide to the House of Commons. HarperCollins.ISBN 978-0-72300298-7.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Flade, Roland (1999).The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History (2nd Enlarged ed.). Konigshausen & Neumann.ISBN 978-3-8260-1844-2.

• Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Philip Goodhart

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