GOOLD, Philip Joseph
Philip Joseph Goold was born at Islington, London on 30 May 1918, son of Henry Walter Goold (1867-1919), city housekeeper, and his wife Ada Mary née Welch (15 April 1880-5 February 1964), who married at Kensington, London in 1898 and in 1911 were living at 6 Canonbury Avenue, Canonbury, London. Living at 87 Park Drive, Winchmore Hill, Southgate with his widowed mother, Philip studied at St Martin's School of Art in London but on the outbreak of the Second World War enlisted in the Army, being captured in 1940 and whilst in P.O.W. camps, continued his interest in art by painting scenery for the pantomimes which the prisoners produced. He married at Hertford in 1951, Patricia M. Hogan, having three sons and a daughter. A member of the Ipswich Art Club 1953-1962 and exhibited from Upper Lodge, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk in 1953, a watercolour 'Approaching Shower, Wye' and the following year from Mill Post, Hawstead, Bury St Edmund's, a watercolour 'The Last Load'. Philip was also a regular exhibitor at Bury St Edmund's and at Lavenham, Suffolk. Philip Joseph Goold died at 'Mill Post', Whepstead Road, Hawstead, Suffolk in 2003.