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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.

GOODENOUGH, FREDERICK ADDINGTON, eldest son of Edmund Goodenough (KS 1797, qv); b. 6 Jul 1827; adm. 18 Sep 1839 (Benthall's); QS 1841; rowed against Eton 1 Aug 1843, 29 Jul 1845; Capt. of the School 1845; left 23 Jan 1846; a merchant at Calcutta; m. 17 Oct 1861 Mary, eldest dau. of Rev. Anthony Lewis Lambert, Rector of Chilbolton, Hampshire; d. on his voyage home from Calcutta 13 Sep 1869.

GOODENOUGH, ARTHUR CYRIL, son of Robert Philip Goodenough (qv); b. 21 Feb 1815; adm. 22 May 1826 (G); KS 1829; left 1833; Ensign, 34th Foot 8 Apr 1834; Lieut., 25 Nov 1836; Capt., 26 Oct 1841; Maj., 27 Mar 1848; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 6 Jan 1855; Lieut. -Col. commanding a depot battalion 1 Oct 1856; Col., 24 Jun 1858; Maj. -Gen., 6 Mar 1858; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Oct 1877; CB 2 Jan 1857; distinguished service pension; served in Crimean War; d. 29 Nov 1879.

GLYN, EGERTON ROBERT, youngest son of Thomas Clayton Glyn (qv); b. 23 Jan 1827; adm. 5 Jul 1837 (G); QS 1841; rowed against Eton 1 Aug. 1843; left 1844; at Haileybury Coll. 1845-6; Writer, EICS Bombay 1847; Third Assistant to Collector, Kaira 1848; Second Assistant to Collector, Surat 1849; d. at Bombay 8 Sep 1852.

GLYN, CARR JOHN, sixth son of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. (qv); b. 25 Jun 1799; adm. 15 Jan 1810; KS 1814; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1818, matr. 5 May 1818, Westminster Student 1818-25; BA 1821; MA 1827; ordained deacon 1828, priest 1829; Rector of Hinton Parva, Dorset, from 13 Feb. 1830; Rector of Witchampton, Dorset, from 13 May 1830; JP Dorset; m. 1st, 21 Jul 1831 Augusta, dau. of John Granville, London; m. 2nd, 25 Apr. 1839 Anna, third dau. of Capt. William Henry Cleather, 1st Ceylon Regt.; d. 25 Oct. 1896.

GILES, EDWARD, fourth son of Ven. John Douglas Giles, Rector of Willoughby, Lincs., and Archdeacon of Stow, and Sarah Elizabeth, second dau. of James Tuthill Allen, Burnham, Somerset; b. 6 Jun 1849; adm. 5 Feb 1863, as BB; QS 1864; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1868, matr. 3 Jun 1868; rowed against Cambridge 1871; 1st cl. Modern History 1872; BA 1872; MA 1883; Indian Civil Service, Educational Dept., Bombay; arrived in India 14 May 1873; Professor of History and Political Economy, Elphinstone Coll., Bombay 1873-5; Educational Inspector May 1875; Director of Public Instruction, Bombay Presidency Apr 1897-1907; additional member, Legislative Council, Bombay 1898, 1901, 1904, 1906; officiating Director-Gen. of Education, India Mar 1907 - Mar 1908; retd. 29 Mar 1908; CIE 1 Jan 1903; m. 19 Jan 1878 Rose Ethel Louise, only dau. of Gen. Sir John William Schneider KCB, Bombay Army, previously EICS Bombay; d. 18 Apr 1938.

GIBBON, EDWARD, only son of Edward Gibbon (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Apr 1737; adm. Jan 1747/8 (Porten's); left Aug 1750, on account of ill-health; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 3 Apr 1752; received into Roman Catholic church 8 Jun 1752, but returned to Protestantism at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1753; became attached to Susanne Curchod (afterwards Mme Necker), but at his father’s wish the engagement was broken off; adm. to Academy, Lausanne 1 Dec 1756; officer in Hampshire Militia 12 Jun 1759-70; author, Essai sur l’Etude de la Litterature, 1761; met John Baker Holroyd (afterwards Lord Sheffield) at Lausanne 1764; in Italy 1764-5; the idea of writing on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire first occurred to him when in Rome on 15 Oct 1764; author, Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne, 1767-8, jointly with his Swiss friend Deyverdun; author, Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, 1770, attacking Warburton; settled in London 1772; elected to The Club 1774; MP Liskeard 1774-80, Lymington 25 Jun 1781-4; a Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Plantations 6 Jul 1779 - Jun 1782; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1787; FSA 20 Nov 1788, FRS 27 Nov 1788; author, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-87, 4 vols.; defended the chapters on Christianity in a Vindication, 1779; retired to Lausanne 1783; his Miscellaneous Works, edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and including his Memoirs of My Life and Writings, were published in 1796; d. unm. 16 Jan 1794. DNB.

FULLER, CHARLES JAMES, second son of Frederick James Fuller, Paddington, Middlesex, solicitor, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 27 Aug 1825; adm. (G) 3 Apr 1839; QS 1840; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1844, matr. 31 May 1844, Westminster Student; migrated to St. Mary Hall, Oxford; BA 1848; MA 1851; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850 (both Worcester); Curate, Leek Wootton, Warwicks.; Missioner, St. Mary’s, Primrose Hill, London 1867-85, Vicar 10 Nov 1885 - 22 Jul 1889; Hon. Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1867-70; m. 9 Jun 1874 Emily Mary, dau. of John Peter André, St. Mark’s Square, London; d. 24 May 1891.

FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY, brother of William Froude (qv); b. 13 Apr 1818; adm. 15 Jan 1830 (Stelfox's); KS 1830; left 1833; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Dec 1835; Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay 1842; BA 1842; MA 1843; Devon Fellow, Exeter Coll. Oxford, 1842 - 27 Feb 1849, when his book Nemesis of Faith was burnt by Dr Sewell in Exeter College Hall; ordained deacon 1844, but availed himself of the provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Relief Act 19 Jul 1872; after his first marriage he devoted himself to historical and literary work; editor, Fraser’s Magazine, 1860-74; sent as Commissioner to Cape of Good Hope to report upon South African confederation 1874-5; Rector of St. Andrew’s Univ., 1868-71, LLD St. Andrew’s 1869; Hon. Fellow, Exeter Coll. Oxford 1882, Oriel Coll. Oxford 1892; Hon. LLD Edinburgh 1884; Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford Univ., from 18 Apr 1892; author, A History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1856-70, and other works; in his Shadows of the Clouds, 1847, Froude tells the melancholy story of Edward Fowler, a Westminster boy, which may contain reminiscences of his own far from happy school career (Paul, Life of Froude, 1905, 10-1); m. 1st, 3 Oct 1849 Charlotte Maria, fifth dau. of Pascoe Grenfell MP, Taplow Court, Bucks.; m. 2nd, 12 Sep 1861 Henrietta Elizabeth, dau. of John Ashley Warre MP, West Cliff House, Ramsgate, Kent; d. 20 Oct 1894. DNB.

FORSHALL, FREDERICK HALE, son of Rev. Josiah Forshall FRS, Chaplain, Foundling Hospital, and Keeper of Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, and Frances, only dau. of Richard Smith, Harborne Heath, Staffs.; b. 18 Nov 1829; adm. 3 Feb 1843 (Scott's); QS 1844; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1848, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1848, scholar 1849, matr. Mich. 1848; emigrated to Australia 1849; a private tutor at Sydney, New South Wales; Sydney Univ., matr. 1852, Chancellor’s Prize for Greek Iambics 1853; Librarian, Sydney Univ.; returned to England 1855; followed the occupation of a coach; ordained deacon 1885, priest 1886 (both Bath and Wells); held various curacies, but gave up holy orders 20 Nov 1894, under the provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Act; author, Westminster School past and present, 1884; d. 11 Aug 1901.