In 1881 he married Ada Stokes, daughter of Charles Lingard Stokes of Pauntley, Worcester. He had property in Dublin and County Kildare.
Business career
After graduating Goulding returned to Ireland and joined the family fertilizer and phosphates firm, W. & H. M. Goulding. He became chairman of the company on his father's death in 1884 and moved the company headquarters from Cork to Dublin in 1885. He made several acquisitions of other Irish fertilizer businesses, and by 1902 the company's annual production was 119,337 tons.[3]
In 1907, Goulding became chairman of the Great Southern and Western Railway. He was chairman of the Irish railway committee from 1806 to 1909. After the Irish Free State government's amalgamation of southern Irish railway companies, Goulding was appointed chairman of the newly organised board. He was a director of the Irish National Bank Ltd.[4] Goulding was on the council of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce.
Goulding played rugby for Ireland, gaining an international cap against Scotland in 1879. He was the fourth president of the Irish Rugby Football Union from 1880 to 1881, and also served as the organisation's vice-president, honorary secretary and honorary treasurer.
References
^Dempsey, Pauric J.; Boylan, Shaun, Goulding, Sir William Joshua, Dictionary of Irish Biography (October 2009). Retrieved 29 November 2022.