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Goodman, Gabriel; Dean of Westminster. Second son of Edward Goodman, Ruthin, Denbighshire, mercer, and Cecily, dau. of Edward Thelwall, Plas-y-Ward, Llanynys, Denbighshire ; Jesus Coll., Cambridge, matr.sizar Mich.1546 ; BA 1550 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge ; Fellow 1552-4 ; MA 1553 ; migrated to St.John’s Coll.Cambridge ; DD 1564 ; ordained ; Chaplain to Sir William Cecil and tutor to his elder son (by 1554) ; Rector of South Luffenham, Rutland 1558 – Oct 1562 ; Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks., first portion, 1559, and second portion, 1569 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 23 Oct 1559 ; Prebendary of Westminster 30 Jun 1560- Aug 1561, Dean of Westminster from 13 Aug 1561 (installed 23 Sep 1561) ; an Ecclesiastical Commissioner from 1562 ; benefactor to his native town of Ruthin, where he paid for the building of a new school house in 1574 and established an almshouse ; d. unm. 17 Jun 1601, aged 73. Buried St.Benedict’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
While Prebendary of Chiswick in St.Paul’s Cathedral, by indenture dated 29 Jun 1570, he leased the manor house of Chiswick to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster as a place for the master and scholars and some of the chapter to retire to in case of pestilence or sickness. The lease was renewed from time to time, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, when they took over the estates of the Prebendaries of St.Paul’s, purchased the interest of the Dean and Chapter in the property. The purchase money was known as the Chiswick Fund, and subsequently reached the sum of £1160 Consols, the interest of which was used to pay for the medical attendance and care of the King’s Scholars. Dr Goodman endeavoured more than once to procure the royal assent to the statutes drawn up by Dr.Bill. He also tried to obtain the right for the School to the annual election of three scholars to Trinity College, Cambridge, instead of two every year and three every third year, an alteration which Dr.Whitgift when Master of Trinity obtained leave to make.
The endowment is now held in the School’s Chiswick Fund, under a governing document of 1864 (amended by scheme of 8 Nov.1965).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.