Henry Gordon Goddard was born at The Manor House, Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire, England on 15 July 1908 and studied at Wadham College Oxford, where he read Latin, French and Law. He was the son of the architect Henry Langton Goddard with whom he may have received his training in the profession.
He qualified as an architect in the early 1930s and from c.1933 was in partnership with his father as Goddard & Goddard. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1933.
During World War Two he served in the Royal Air Force as a Group Captain and Wing Commander.
Following the war he returned to his architectural practice and became a heating and ventilating consultant. He was responsible for developing heating schemes for Westminster Abbey and several Oxford and Cambridge university colleges.
His address was given as The Manor House, Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire in 1933 and 37C. Connaught Street, London in 1939. He died on 13 November 1972.
Brandwood, Geoff and Cherry, Martin. Men of Property: the Goddards and Six Generations of Architecture. Leicester: Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records Service 1990