Philip Henry Russell Goodman, who died 29 March, 2025, aged 93, was a grandson maternally of the Lady Ottoline Morrell, the society hostess, influential in artistic circles.
He was born 17 June, 1931, son of Sir Victor Goodman, KCB, OBE, MC (1899-1967), a public servant and sometime Clerk of the Parliaments, and his wife Julian Ottoline Morrell (1906-1989), scion of that landed gentry family.
His grandmother was Lady Ottoline Violet Ann Cavendish-Bentinck (1873-1938), scion of the Dukes of Portland, and a kinswoman of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, whose mother was a Cavendish-Bentinck.
He married 17 May, 1957, Countess Sophie Vladimirovna Kleinmichel (born 27 March, 1930), daughter of Count Vladimir Petrovich Kleinmichel, CVO (1901-1982), the courtier who King George V despatched to Denmark to negotiate the purchase of the Romanov jewels from the King's aunt, the Empress Marie of Russia. Count Vladmir's wife was Countess Marie Catherine Sophie von Carlow (1893-1979), daughter of Georg, Duke of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1859-1909), and descended from King George II.
Philip Goodman leaves issue, five daughters, Mary, Catherine, Elizabeth, Sophia and Xenia.
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