Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy

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Major-General Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy MP (8 May 1837 - 13 October 1911) held a number of military positions and was the first MP for Hammersmith.

Walter Goldsworthy was born in Marylebone, London. He travelled to India with his father setting up a merchant business in Calcutta in 1854 and together with his brother Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy (1839-1900), he joined the volunteer cavalry known as Havelock's Irregulars. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he won medals and was mentioned in dispatches. In 1859, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 17th Lancers. Over the course of his military career, he rose to the rank of major-general.

He was MP for Hammersmith from 1885-1900.

In 1890, Yaldham Manor, Kent was advertised in The Times and sold to Goldsworthy. He bred hunters and built the stables and carriage shed. Arthur Nye Peckham, who visited Yaldham in 1911 noted the general had "re-opened the great hall, which had been cut into four rooms".