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Somerset County Herald and Taunton Courier. Saturday 15 Sep 1962
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Death of Alderman GOODLAND
Alderman Charles Harold GOODLAND, M.B.E. T.D., who was mayor of Taunton throughout the last war, died at his home, The Poplars, Greenway Road, Taunton, on Thursday afternoon. He was 80.
Born at Taunton, he was managing director of Goodlands Ltd., coal merchants, which had been a family business for several generations.
Ald. GOODLAND had devoted his whole life to public service. He was elected to the Town Courncil in 1922 and became an alderman 20 years later. He was mayor in 1930-31 and again from 1938 to the end of the war.
In recognition of his eminent services he was admitted an honary freeman in September, 1945.
He was a Magistrate for 28 years and a former chairman of the Borough Bench.
He succeeded his brother-in-law, the late Mr. F. W. PENNY, as chairman of the Taunton Divisional Education Executive Committee.
In 1938, with Mrs. GOODLAND, he visited Taunton, Massachusetts, as the town's representatives at the tercentenary celebrations of the founding of the American city.
He was a governor of Taunton School, where he was educated, and an ex-president of Taunton Rotary Club.
He served with the Somerset Light Infantry in India in the First World War and was awarded the Territorial Decoration.
A lifelong Unitarian, he had held many offices in the Mary Street Chapel at Taunton, and in the Western Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.
He leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter.