GOOCH, SIR DANIEL, BART. (1816-1889), English mechanical engineer, was born at Bedlington, Northumberland, on Aug. 16, 1816. In 1837 he became the locomotive super intendent of the Great Western Railway, and gradually replaced the unsatisfactory locomotives employed by a new and efficient eight-wheeled class. One of these broad gauge locomotives, the "Lord of the Isles" gained a gold medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and ran 789,300 miles, with its original boiler, before withdrawal in 1881. Gooch left the railway in 1864, and as a director of the Telegraph Construction Company personally superintended the laying of the first two Atlantic Cables by the steamship "Great Eastern" in 1865-6. He returned to the Great Western Railway as chairman in 1866 and carried out many improvements before his death at Clewer Park, near Windsor, on Oct. 15, 5889. He was an advocate of the "broad," or 7 ft., gauge for railways, but his death only preceded by three years the complete conversion of the Great Western Railway to standard gauge.