James Blades Gooding

James Blades Gooding (born 1847) was a barrister and local politician in Ealing, Middlesex.

Born in Barbados, he was the third son of a police magistrate in the colony, John Robert Gooding. By 1881 he was living in Ealing and was a barrister. A vice chairman of the local Conservative Party, in 1887 he was elected to Ealing Local Board.

When the first Middlesex County Council was created in 1888 Gooding was elected as a councillor representing Ealing. At the next county council election in 1892 he lost his seat to a prominent Liberal Party member.

Gooding took his defeat at the county elections badly, and it was reported in the local press that he had decided to resign from Ealing Local Board. He subsequently changed his mind and defended his seat at the next board election in 1893. He finished at the bottom of the poll in sixth place and did not contest another election.

He became an investor in a number of provincial newspapers and moved to Horsham in Sussex in 1894. His second wife was a journalist and took over the West Sussex County Times which he had purchased.