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James Goodrich (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir James Edward Clifford Goodrich, KCVO (28 June 1851 – 1 September 1925) was the last Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.
==Naval career==
Goorich was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1872, and promoted to Captain in 1895.〔(Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904-1945 )〕 On 7 June 1902 he was appointed in command of the new battleship HMS ''London'', which was commissioned as flagship for the Coronation Review for King Edward VII the following August and then left for service with the Mediterranean Fleet. He then served as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station from his appointment in 1903 to its closure in 1905.〔(Canadian Navy Maritime Forces Pacific )〕 Improved communications, the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the need to concentrate warships in British waters to counter the developing German High Seas Fleet, meant that the station was closed down at sunset on 1 March 1905.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of CFB Esquimalt and Naden )〕 Promoted to Rear Admiral in October 1905,〔 he was appointed Admiral Superintendent of the Gibraltar Dockyard in 1906.〔(Obituary of Sir Edward Chichester ) The Times, 18 September 1906〕 His final promotion was to Admiral in 1913 on his retirement, although he was recalled to serve as a Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve during World War I.
He died in 1925 and a memorial to him stands in St Cyr's Churchyard in Stinchcombe in Gloucestershire.〔(Some memorial inscriptions )〕
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