| HMS Endurance Tracking Project (509 words) |
 | Sir Daniel was the grandson of the other more illustrious Sir Daniel Gooch 1816-1889, the great railway engineer of some considerable genius who designed over 60 different classes of steam locomotives, and was responsible for laying the first ever Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. |
| Gooch’s qualifications for the job was that he was an expert breeder of Greyhounds and for years had followed the hunt. |
| Gooch himself was in ill health and in 1923 underwent surgery to amputate one of his legs. |
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