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.
GOODMAN, HUGH; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1564-9 (tutor, the Dean); his name appears in the bookseller’s bill referred to above under George Goodman (qv); QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1570, Westminster Student to 1586; BA 19 Feb 1573/4; MA 1577; Master of the Free School, Ruthin, Denbighshire; ordained; Rector of Llanelidan (mediety), Denbighshire 1581 – May 1584; Vicar of Marcham, Berks., 1585; Prebendary of Westminster 10 May 1607 – res by 23 Jul 1623; Vicar of Stanford in the Vale, Berks., from 1622; buried there 23 Aug 1625.
GOODMAN, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; Min. Can. 1636. [perhaps Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Oct 1637, matr. 1637, scholar 1638; BA 1641/2]
GOODRICK, JOHN, only son of John Goodrick, Claxby, Lincs., farmer, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 21 Jun 1830; adm. 6 Jul 1841; BB 1842; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1848, scholar on Bishop Williams’s foundation 7 Nov 1848, matr. Mich. 1848; BA 1852; d. 27 Mar 1852.
GOODRICK, RICHARD, son of Richard Goodrick, St. Bride’s, London; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1715/6; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Feb 1720/1; adm. Inner Temple year 1721/2, chambers there 11 Nov 1722 – sold 5 Feb 1724/5. [perhaps Chaplain, Royal Navy 1732]
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, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1750; in school list 1754.