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He was educated at St John’s School Leatherhead and Trinity College Cambridge

He was educated at St John’s School, Leatherhead, and Trinity College, Cambridge. His 16 years as Bishop in west London saw a slow but creative introduction of new forms of worship, fresh parochial initiatives and warmer relationships between the churches. He would wander into houses or vicarages, wealthy or poor, with the assurance of an experienced family GP, sharing a Christianity whose hard core was shrewd practical kindness. As Bishop of Kensington he never kowtowed to the smart or was too hurried to miss the deeper underlying problems. Goodchild’s sense of fun and delight in other people’s good fortune made his determined work for the deprived through Christian Aid, of which he was chairman for 10 years, all the more effective.

Goodchild was not one for sweeping things under the carpet to the disadvantage of the young. At the end of his career it was noted that, as bishop presiding at a major diocesan meeting, he ensured a full discussion when the administrative machine wished to deprive an enterprising and rather bolshy young curate of extra earnings. BISHOP RONALD Goodchild is remembered with smiling admiration by an unusual variety of those who shared their youth with him; in schools, in the RAF and in the immediate post- war church houses, especially St Michael’s House, Hamburg. He was deputy for the Loire department for 16 years and retired happily to live at Montagny, of which he was mayor.Paul Claude Marie Riviere, army officer and wartime resister: born Montagny, France 22 November 1912; married 1943 Genevieve Fassin (deceased; three sons, one daughter); died Lyons, France 16 December 1998.. He then had the horrible posting of chief security officer in Algeria from which he was glad to retire to politics in 1962. More passengers had been carried secretly between France and England by his agency than by any other. As his official rank was still sergeant, he was fobbed off with a military medal; an OBE was added later when de Gaulle made him a Lieutenant-Colonel.In that rank he served successively in Indo-China, Germany and Japan, where he was military attache from 1956-59.

Madame Aubrac went into labour on the journey and had her baby later that day.He was brought out to England again by Hudson in May 1944. They got the Hudson clear and it took off, safely carrying with it an RAF evader and two eminent resisters on the run, the Aubracs with their little boy. The mayor of the nearby village arrived and mobilised a pair of oxen and a carthorse. Once he was almost run over by a Hudson that landed across wind and lost his pipe and spectacles; a gendarme searching the field next morning found them and unobtrusively handed them back.On the night of 8/9 February 1944 a Hudson received by Riviere stuck in the mud at the edge of its field in Burgundy Manpower could not shift it. His wife supported him through all the perils, and was quite capable of managing a secret air landing by herself if such chance made her husband unavailable.All this was done in the teeth of 15 separate Vichy French police forces, as well as the Abwehr and the Gestapo; none of whom ever got hold of Riviere again Occasionally, indeed, he found the French police helpful. For each operation he had to find a suitable field, clear it with the Air Ministry by secret wireless, find reliable friends to help him light it when a coded message on the BBC’s French service told him the aircraft was coming, collect and hide the departing passengers, and have a safe hiding place for any arrivals.His passengers included a future president of France, Vincent Auriol; General de Lattre de Tassigny; and several past and future ministers of the third and fourth Republics, as well as such heroes of resistance as Richard Heslop and Victor Gerson. The Vichy police then caught up with him and put him in prison at Lyons for four months on the charge of distributing anti- government propaganda.