GODDARD, ---; b.; in school list 1801, and May 1803; left 1803.
Goddard, Philip Wilton Duncan, son of Philip Henry Goddard, solicitor, and Muriel Frances Hinton of Wem, Shropshire; b. 18 Sept. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (R) Sept. 1926; left Apr. 1927; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1936; a med. practitioner in Templecombe, Somerset; m. 3 Dec. 1938 Margaret Kathleen, d. of Thomas Branches Williams of Raynes Park; d. 8 Jan. 1982.
GODDARD, THOMAS, eldest son of Guybon Goddard MP, Serjeant-at-law, sometime Recorder of King’s Lynn, and Mary, dau. of John Greene, Bois Hall, Essex, Serjeant-at-law; bapt. St. Olave, Old Jewry, London 11 May 1643 (IGI); at school 1657-8 (Busby’s Account Book); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Feb 1659/60, aged 17, matr. 16 Apr 1660; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 Jun 1659; of Brampton Hall, Norfolk; m. Mary, dau. of Sir Henry Crofts, Kt, Little Saxham, Suffolk.
Godfray, Basil Hugh Edmund, son of Basil Collins Godfray, of Hampstead, solicitor; b. Aug. 2, 1890; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (G); left Easter 1908; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. Nov. 30, 1914; Lieut. July 1, 1915; d. May 7, 1929.
GODFREE, GODFREE WILLIAM, son of William Ginger (adm. 1775, qv); b. 23 Jun 1808; adm. 30 Mar 1818; succeeded his father as bookseller to the School; retired from business Christmas 1874 and shortly afterwards assumed the surname of Godfree in lieu of Ginger; d. unm. 28 May 1881.
GODFREY, SIR EDMUND BERRY, brother of Richard Godfrey (qv); b. 23 Dec 1621; adm.; KS; a contributor to the congratulatory verses to Charles I on the birth of Princess Amelia 1636/7, written by KSS while at Chiswick; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Nov 1638; adm. Grays Inn 3 Dec 1640; became a woodmonger, and in 1658 acquired a wharf at Hartshorn Lane, near Charing Cross; JP Westminster; knighted 18 Sep 1666, for “his eminent service done in helping to suppress the late fire in the City” (London Gazette, 17-20 Sep 1666); offended the Court by causing the arrest of the King’s Physician for a debt due to him for firewood, and was imprisoned for six days in the porter’s lodge at Whitehall 1669; a zealous Protestant, and “esteemed the best justice of the peace in England”; received the first depositions of Titus Oates concerning the Popish Plot 16 Sept 1678; found dead in a ditch on the south side of Primrose Hill, near Hampstead 17 Oct 1678, three probably innocent persons subsequently being hanged at Tyburn for his murder. Memorial tablet in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
GODFREY, EDWARD LEE, son of Thomas Spragging Godfrey, Balderton Hall, Notts., banker, and Emily Mary Lee (IGI); grandson of Thomas Spragging Godfrey (qv); b. 15 Dec 1867; adm. (G) 25 Sep 1879; left May 1880; at Haileybury Sch. 1880-4; proprietor, Gloucester Incubator Co. Ltd., Woodchester, Gloucs.
GODFREY, EDWARD, brother of Richard Godfrey (qv); b. 16 Jul 1627; adm. ; KS May 1640 (“Domestic Chronicle of Thos. Godfrey”, Topog. and Gen. ii, 463); “puer optimae spei, et indolis dux et decus 5 classis huius Scholae”; d. at school 8 Jun 1640. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey, where there is a tablet in his memory.