Allen Goodwyn

Allen Goodwyn (1851-1925)

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1925 Obituary

"The Death is announced of Mr. Allen Goodwyn, for many years one of the managing directors of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies. Mr Goodwyn, who was born in 1851, was the ffourth son of the late Mr. Samuel Chapman Goodwyn, of Covehithe. He served his engineering apprenticeship with Richard Garrett and Sons, of Leiston, and afterwards spent some time in Germany and Hungary, helping the agents of Messrs. Garrett's there and acquiring practical acquaintance with the use of machinery in the field. Later he was closely associated at Leiston with the development of Messrs. Garrett's export business. In 1883 he entered the service of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, becoming in the year 1900 managing director in complete charge of the export department. From 1883 until the outbreak of the war Mr. Goodwyn made yearly journeys abroad. During that period he visited continually every country on the continent, and, with the exception of the Australian Colonies, all the important countries of the world, including the River Plate, Chile, North and South African India, China, and Japan, and to many of these countries he made several visits. With his knowledge of farming, which he had partly acquired as a youth, for his father farmed 6000 acres and his experience in the practical of machinery in the field, added to his keen business judgement which never failed him, he had a great share during these years in building up and developing the export business of the Orwell Works.

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