Editing Ron Goodwin (section)

===Early life===
Goodwin was born in [[Plymouth]] to James Goodwin (died 1952), a policeman with the [[Metropolitan Police Service|Metropolitan Police Force]] and Bessie Violet Goodwin née Godsland (died 1966), a clothing machinist and daughter of a labourer. James was originally from London, but had moved to [[Devon]] after being assigned to the Metropolitan Police's [[History of the Ministry of Defence Police#1860: The Metropolitan Police|No. 3 (Devonport Dockyard) Division]], marrying Bessie in her birthplace of [[Devonport, Plymouth|Devonport]] in 1920.<ref name=dnb>Lamb, Andrew, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/88737?docPos=1 ''Goodwin, Ron'', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''], Oxford University Press, online edition, 30 December 2011 {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.met.police.uk/history/records.htm|title=The Metropolitan Police History by the Yard|publisher=Met.police.uk|access-date=27 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303203844/http://www.met.police.uk/history/records.htm|archive-date=3 March 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> 


Goodwin learned to play the piano by the age of five and returned to London four years later, where he attended [[Willesden County Grammar School]].<ref name=dnb/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olduffs.org/ou/FamousOldUffs.htm|title=Pinner County Grammar School records and attendance list|publisher=Olduffs.org|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref> Whilst there, he learnt to play the trumpet and performed regularly in the school band.<ref name=dnb/> Upon the outbreak of [[World War II]], the family moved to [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], [[Middlesex]], and Goodwin attended [[Pinner County Grammar School]].<ref name="powell-pressburger.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Obits/Goodwin/Telegraph.html|title=Obituary|publisher=Powell-pressburger.org|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref> It was here that he formed his own band – ''Ron Goodwin and the Woodchoppers''.<ref name=dnb/> He later studied the trumpet in London at the [[Guildhall School of Music]].<ref name="Larkin50"/>