John Goodchild

John Arthur Goodchild (1851–1914) was a physician; later, he authored several works of poetry and mysticism, most famously ''The Light of the West''.

According to Patrick Benham, Goodchild had a private medical practice in Bordighera, Italy, serving mainly expatriate Britons. From 1873 until the early 1900s, he stayed in Italy during summers and returned to the UK in winters.

Goodchild was an antiquarian influenced by British Israelite ideas and the Golden Dawn esoteric group. He was friends with William Sharp (who wrote as Fiona Macleod), who dedicated his final literary work, ''The Winged Destiny: Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael'', to Goodchild.

He saw Glastonbury, Iona (Scotland) and Devenish Island (Ireland) as being a triune of holy sites in the British Isles. Provided by Wikipedia