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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Sir Philip Goodhart
| honorific-suffix =
| image = Sir-Philip-Carter-Goodhart.jpg
| office = [[Northern Ireland Office|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern&nbsp;Ireland]]
| term_start  = 4 May 1979
| term_end = 5 January 1981
| primeminister = [[Margaret Thatcher]]
| predecessor = [[James Dunn (British politician)|James Dunn]]
| successor  = [[David Mitchell (politician)|David Mitchell]]
| office1 = Member of Parliament<br />for Beckenham
| term_start1 = 21 March 1957
| term_end1 = 16 March 1992
| predecessor1 = [[Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes|Patrick Buchan-Hepburn]]
| successor1 = [[Piers Merchant]]
| birth_name = Philip Carter Goodhart
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1925|11|3}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|7|5|1925|11|3}}
| death_place =
| nationality = British
| party = Conservative
| spouse = {{marriage|Valerie Winant|1950|2014|end=died}}
| children = 7 (including [[David Goodhart|David]])
| parents = [[Arthur Lehman Goodhart]] (father)
| education = [[Hotchkiss School]]
| alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge
}}

'''Sir Philip Carter Goodhart''' (3 November 1925 – 5 July 2015) was a British Conservative politician, the son of [[Arthur Lehman Goodhart]].

==Biography==
Goodhart attended the [[Hotchkiss School]] in [[Lakeville, Connecticut]].  He contested Consett in 1950 whilst still a student at Trinity College, Cambridge.  He was elected Member of Parliament for Beckenham at a 1957 by-election, and served until his retirement in 1992.  One of the unsuccessful candidates for the nomination in 1957 was the young [[Margaret Thatcher]].

In his book ''Referendum'' (Tom Stacey Ltd, 1971){{ISBN missing|date=November 2019}} he argued that the referendum, then under discussion in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) joining the European Economic Community (EEC), could in fact serve to entrench constitutional safeguards that the UK then &ndash; as now &ndash; lacked, quoting [[Arthur Balfour]]'s contribution to the debate on the Parliament Bill (later the [[Parliament 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 the definitive account of the [[1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum|referendum campaign in 1975]], ''Full-hearted Consent'', and also ''The 1922: The Story of the 1922 Committee'' (with Ursula Branston; Macmillan, 1973).{{ISBN missing|date=November 2019}} He was a junior Northern Ireland minister (1979–1981) and a junior defence minister (1981). He was a member of the Founding Council of the [[Rothermere American Institute]] at the University of Oxford.

In 1950, he married Valerie Forbes Winant, niece of [[John Gilbert Winant]];<ref name=TelegraphObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11720720/Sir-Philip-Goodhart-politician-obituary.html|title=Sir Philip Goodhart, politician &ndash; obituary|date=6 July 2015|work=The Telegraph|location=London|access-date=18 November 2019}}</ref> they had seven children: Arthur, Sarah, David, Rachel, Harriet, Rebecca and Daniel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/175739/goodhart |title=GOODHART |quote=Valerie Forbes Winant died peacefully on April 1st aged 88. |website=Announcements.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> The couple lived in Whitebarn, Youlbury Woods, Oxford. He died in 2015, aged 89.<ref name=TelegraphObit />  One of his children is [[David Goodhart]], director of the [[Demos (UK think tank)|Demos]] thinktank and journalist for the ''Prospect'' magazine.

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book |title=The Times Guide to the House of Commons |publisher=Times Newspapers Ltd |year=1987}}
*{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2014}}
* {{cite book|last=Flade|first=Roland|title=The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History|edition=2nd Enlarged|publisher=Konigshausen & Neumann|year=1999|isbn=9783826018442}}
* {{URL|http://.rai.ox.ac.uk/about/history/foundingcouncil}}

==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-philip-goodhart | Philip Goodhart}}

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  | title  = Member of Parliament for Beckenham
  | years  = 1957–1992
  | before = [[Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes|Patrick Buchan-Hepburn]]
  | after  = [[Piers Merchant]]
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