Herbert Haylock Golding was born in March, Cambridgeshire, England ion 15 September 1878 He was articled to E. J. Andrew in Preston and Fleetwood, Lancashire from 1894 to 1898 and remained with him as his assistant until 1900. He then worked as an assistant in the Architects' Department of West Ham Borough Council in London until 1903, and in the Borough Engineers' Office from 1903.
Golding qualified as an architect in 1904 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1905.
Drawings and plans of a house designed by him are illustrated in Designs for One Hundred Ideal £1,000 Houses. Being copies of the hundred best designs entered in the 1912 Daily Mail Architects' Competition (1912 p.57).
His address was given as 24 Gresley Road, Islington, London in 1901; 56 Plum Lane, Plumstead, Woolwich, London in 1905; 16 Chase Bridge Villas, Whitton, Twickenham, London in 1912 and 1914; 12 Casewick Road, West Norwood, London in 1923 and 1926; and 55 Kingsmead Road, Wandsworth, London in 1939. He died in Tooting Bec Hospital, South London on 20 February 1951
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001