GOODMAN, GODFREY, second son of Godfrey Goodman, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Chapter Clerk and Registrar, Westminster Abbey, and his second wife Jane, third dau. of Simon Croxton (or Cruxson), citizen and mercer, London, and of Merllyn, Ruthin; nephew of Very Rev. Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster; b. 28 Feb 1582/3; adm. 1592; chorister; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, adm. scholar 1600; BA 1603/4; MA 1607; BD 1614 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1615); DD 1619; ordained deacon (Bangor) 1 Nov 1603, priest (London) 20 Dec 1606; Rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire (first portion) 1603-5; Vicar of Stapleford Abbots, Essex 20 Dec 1606 - Jun 1620; Rector of Llandyssil, Montgomeryshire 1607-15; Rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire (second portion) 1615-6; Rector of Ysceifiog, Flintshire 1616-21; Canon of Windsor from 20 Dec 1617, apparently dismissed or suspended c. 1639 but no successor was appointed and Goodman may have remained in office de iure until death; Rector of West Ilsley, Berks., 19 Jun 1620-46, sequestered; Dean of Rochester 4 Jan. 1620/1 -5; Rector of Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Denbighshire 31 Jul 1621- Jan 1625; consecrated Bishop of Gloucester 6 Mar 1624/5; reprimanded by Convocation for a sermon on the real presence 1628; charged with ritualistic practices by Prynne and others; Rector of Kemerton, Gloucs., 22 Sep 1631 – Oct 1636; his election to the see of Hereford annulled by the advice of Laud 1633; refused to sign the new canons of 1640, and was deprived “a beneficio et officio” by the two houses of Convocation 9 May 1640; committed to the Gatehouse, but released on signing the canons and restored to his see 10 Jul 1640; imprisoned in the Tower by order of the House of Commons in winter of 1641-2 for having signed the canons; his palace at Gloucester was sacked 1643; spent the last few years of his life in poverty in London; he stated in his will that he had always been “most constant … in all the doctrine of God’s Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church, whereof I do acknowledge the Church of Rome to be the Mother Church”; author, The Fall of Man, 1616, and other works; see G. I. Soden, Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Rochester 1583-1656, 1953; d. unm. 19 Jan 1655/6. DNB.

GOODMAN, GODFREY, second son of Gawen Goodman, Ruthin, Denbighshire, and Elen, dau. of Thomas Griffith, Pant y Llongdu; first cousin of Godfrey Goodman (elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1599, qv); b ; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1581, adm. scholar 1582, matr. Lent 1581/2; BA 1585/6; ordained deacon 17 Jul 1586, priest 25 Mar 1587 (both Bangor [or Chester ?]); Rector, Llanelidan (mediety), Denbighshire 18 Jul 1586; living 1604.

GOODWIN, GEORGE, son of James Goodwin, Shirland, Derbs.; b. 20 Aug 1666; adm.; KS 1681; elected to Trinity Coll. Camb. 1685, adm. pens. 16 June 1685, aged 18; migrated to Peterhouse, adm. pens. 15 Feb 1685/6, North Scholar 10 Mar 1685/6, Hale Scholar 7 Jan 1686, matr. 1687; BA 1688/9; MA 1698; ordained deacon (Rochester) 22 May 1692, priest (Chichester) 20 Mar 1697/8; Rector of Graffham, Sussex, 17 Jun 1698 -1708/9; Prebendary of Chichester from 1 May 1708; Rector of Methley, Yorks., from 16 Mar 1708/9; m. 26 Jun 1695 Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Styles (or Stiles), Tillington, Sussex; d. 11 Sep 1750.

GOODWIN, JOSEPH; b.; adm.; KS 1673; buried in Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 11 Mar 1675/6.

Goodwyn, Peter, son of Harold Goodwyn, rubber planter, of Felixstowe, Suffolk and Mary Evelyn Goodwyn; b. 4 Sept. 1929; adm. Sept. 1943 (B); left July 1946; RMA Sandhurst 1951; Lieut. RE Sept. 1952, Capt. Sept. 1956, Maj. Sept. 1963, retd. Sept. 1966; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1962; Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue; m. 22 June 1957 Pamela Mary, d. of Robert Hermann Alexander Neuschild of Enfield, Middlesex; d. 11 May 2013.

GOODWYN, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS in 1570; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1573, Westminster Student to 1611 [or to marriage, if sooner ?]; BA 1577; MA 1580 (incorp. Cambridge 1583); BD and DD 1602; ordained; Rector of Upton Scudamore, Wilts., 1587; Prebendary of Salisbury from 2 Aug 1587; Prebendary of York 7 Sep 1590- Oct 1605, Chancellor of York 24 Oct 1605- Sep 1611; Sub-Almoner to Queen Elizabeth I 1590; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, from 13 Sep 1611, Vice-Chancellor Oxford Univ. 1614-6, 1617-9; Rector of All Hallows the Great, London, 31 Oct 1614-7; Archdeacon of Middlesex from 23 Sep 1616; held other ecclesiastical preferments; a remarkable preacher; when delivering the funeral sermon on Prince Henry at St. Mary’s, Oxford, Nov 1612, “he was not only moved himself, but also moved the whole University and City to shed fountains of tears” (Thompson, Christ Church, 48); an interesting account of “monies payd out for Willm. Goodwyn” Dec 1571 – Nov 1573 is preserved in the Chapter Muniments; m.; d. 11 Jun 1620, aged 64. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

GOOLD, WYNDHAM HENRY, third son of Thomas Goold, Dromadda and Rosbrien, co. Limerick, Master in Chancery (I), and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Brinsley Nixon, Rector of Painstown, co. Meath; b. 8 Jul 1812; adm. 14 Jan 1824 (Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 6 Dec 1830; BA 1834; adm. King’s Inns 1833, called to Irish bar 1837; adm. Gray’s Inn 8 May 1835; Munster circuit; Crown Prosecutor, Limerick 1843; MP Co. Limerick from Dec 1850; d. unm. 27 Nov 1854.

GOOLDEN, CHARLES, son of Richard Goolden MRCS, Maidenhead, Berks., and Mary Anne, dau. of Edmund Fleming, Marlow Place, Bucks.; b. 14 May 1824; adm. 2 Oct 1837; QS 1839; rowed against Eton 26 Jul 1842; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1843, adm. pens. 29 May 1843, scholar 1844, matr. Mich. 1843; BA 1848; MA 1853; assistant master, City of London School 1847-8; on staff of Smyrna Civil Hospital as Chief Clerk, Resident Engineer and RMO 1853-5; engineering staff, Scinde Railway 1858; AMICE 1866; Treasurer, Elizabethan Club 1866-9; went to live in Germany; m. 21 Jun 1871 Mariana Hermine Theresa von Renan; d. 14 Mar 1904.

GORDON, ---; in school list Dec 1788; at school 1791-3 (Clapham), described as “Gordon senior”.