GODFREY, Charles. b. Kingston, Surrey 22 Nov. 1790; bandmaster of Coldstream guards nearly 50 years; musician in ordinary to Wm. IV. 1831; editor and arranger of Jullien’s Military Band Journal 1847. d. London 12 Dec. 1863.
GODKIN, James. b. Gorey, co. Wexford 1806; pastor of dissenting ch. at Armagh 1834; missionary to Roman Catholics to 1845; went to London as a journalist 1847; established in Belfast The Christian Patriot 1849; editor of Derry Standard; editor of Daily Express, Dublin; member of Irish tenant league 1850; special commissioner of Irish Times to ascertain feeling of the farmers on land question 1869; granted civil list pension of £90, 5 April 1869; author of A guide from the church of Rome to the church of Christ 1836, 3 ed. 1845; Ireland and her churches 1867; The land war in Ireland 1870 and other books. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 2 May 1879.
GODLEY, Denis (son of John Godley of Killigar, co. Leitrim). b. 1823; ensign 74 highlanders 1839; sec. to governor general of Canada 1861–68; sec. to commission on Irish church temporalities 1869–81; sec. to Irish land commission 1881–88; C.B. 1881. d. Guardswell, Ascot 24 Jany. 1890.
GODLEY, John Robert (brother of the preceding). b. 1814; ed. at Harrow and Christ church, Ox., B.A. 1836; proposed to emigrate one million Irish to Canada; contested Leitrim county 12 Aug. 1847; Canterbury colony, New Zealand, founded by him and E. G. Wakefield 1850, guided Canterbury 1850–52, agent in England 1854–56; commissioner of income tax Ireland 1853; assistant under secretary at war 1855–61; F.R.G.S.; author of Letters from America 2 vols. 1844; Observations on an Irish poor law 1847. d. 11 Gloucester place, Portman square, London 17 Nov. 1861. Selection from writings and memoir by J. E. Fitzgerald (1863) 1–32, portrait.
GODWIN, Edward William. b. Old Market st. Bristol 26 May 1833; architect Bristol and then in partnership with Henry Crisp; removed to London 1862; built Northampton and Congleton town halls; assisted W. Burgess in his designs for new law courts London, and R. W. Eddis in his designs for parliament houses Berlin; designed theatrical costumes for Hamlet, Claudian, Helena in Troas and the Bachelors 1886; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; F.R.I.B.A.; a constant contributor to the British Architect; author of Art furniture by W. Watt, from designs by E. W. Godwin 1877; Temple Bar illustrated 1877; A few notes on the architecture and costumes of Claudian 1883 and other books. d. 6 Great College st. Westminster 6 Oct. 1886. British Architect 15 Oct. 1886 pp. 347–48, portrait.
GODWIN, George. b. Brompton, London 28 Jany. 1815; chief founder of Art Union of London 14 Feb. 1837, hon. sec.; author of The last day, a farce played at Olympic 28 Oct. 1840, and of several dramas; editor of The Builder Dec. 1842 to Oct. 1883; F.R.S. 7 March 1839; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1838; vice pres. of R.I. of British Architects, gold medallist 1881, founded the Godwin bursary 1881; architect of St. Mary’s ch. West Brompton and many other edifices; restored St. Mary’s, Redcliffe, Bristol 1846–75; made a collection of ancient chairs, including Shakespeare’s chair, sold 19 April 1888; author of The churches of London 2 vols. 1839; A history of St. Paul’s cathedral 1837; Facts and fancies 1844; History in Ruins, letters on history of architecture 1853; London Shadows 1854; Another blow for life 1864. d. 6 Cromwell place, South Kensington 27 Jany. 1888. Colburn’s New Monthly Mag., vol. 167 p. 182, portrait.
GODWIN, Henry. Ensign 9 foot 30 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. 41 foot 26 July 1821; lieut. col. 87 foot 5 April 1827 to 25 June 1827, when placed on h.p.; employed in 6 several commands during Burmese war 1824–6; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; recaptured Pegu Nov. 1852; col. 20 foot 25 Oct. 1853; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, gazetted K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853; author of Burmah, Letters and papers written 1852–53, 1854. d. Simla, Bengal 26 Oct. 1853 aged 69.
GODWIN, John. b. Swansea; pupil of Sir James M’Adam; engineer to Ulster railway 1836–62; the first professor of engineering Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; M.I.C.E. 24 June 1845. d. Tamnagharrie, co. Down 15 Jany. 1869.
GODWIN, Rev. John Hensley. b. Bristol 18 June 1809; educ. Highbury coll. 1833–36 and Edin. univ. 1836–37; congregational minister Old Meeting, Norwich 1837; resident and philosophical tutor Highbury coll. 1839; professor of New Testament exegesis, mental and moral philosophy and English, New coll. 1850–72; author of Christian Baptism 1845; Christian Faith 1852; Translations of The Revelations 1856, St. Matthew 1863, St. Mark 1869, The Epistle to the Galatians 1871 and The Romans 1873; a contributor to the Contemporary Review and the Evangelical Mag. d. 1 Belsize ter. Hampstead 26 Feb. 1889.
GODWIN, Marianne Elizabeth. Caricaturist in London; signed her pictures with the word “Jack.” d. University college hospital London 12 Aug. 1887 from her muslin dress catching fire at the ironing stove at her residence 13 Fitzroy sq. London.