Goldstone was born in Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (now Sunderland) on 7 December 1870. The third son of a stained-glass artist, he attended Borough Road Traininge College, Isleworth after completing education at Diamond Hall in Millfield.
From 1891 to 1910, Goldstone was an assistant master at Bow Street school in Sheffield. In 1895, he had married Elizabeth Alice Henderson of Whittingham, Northumberland. They had two children, Elsie (born 1897) and Frank (born 1899).
A member of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), he became president of the subgroup National Federation of Class Teachers in 1902, a member of the executive committee of the NUT in 1902 and chair of its law committee in 1904.[1] In 1910, he stepped up his participation in the NUT, serving as organization secretary (1910–1918), assistant secretary (1918–1924) and finally general secretary (1924–1931).
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Subsequently, he served three years as principal of a tutorial college. In 1942 his wife died in Ipswich, and Goldstone followed in the same town on 25 December 1955.
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^The Journal of Education. W. Stewart & Company. 1931. p. 494.
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