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Sir Anthony Michael Goodenough KCMG KStJ (born 1941) is a British retired diplomat, and High Commissioner to Canada from 1996 to 2000. [1]

Goodenough is the son of Rear-Admiral Michael Grant Goodenough and Nancy Slater, daughter of Sir Ransford Slater; and the grandson of the banker Frederick Goodenough. He was educated at Wellington College and New College, Oxford. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "BRITISH DIPLOMATIC ORAL HISTORY PROGRAMMERECOLLECTIONS OF SIR ANTHONY GOODENOUGH KCMGRECORDED AND TRANSCRIBED BY SYD MADDICOTT" (PDF). Churchill College, Cambridge. Retrieved 24 September 2019.