GODWIN-AUSTEN, Robert Alfred Cloyne (eld. son of Sir Henry Edmund Austen. 1785–1871). b. Shalford house, Guildford 17 March 1808; ed. at Midhurst, Sussex and Oriel coll. Ox. fellow 1830, B.A. 1830; student of L.I. 1830; F.G.S. 19 March 1830, sec. 1843–4 and 1853–4; Wollaston medallist 1862; member of British Association 1846, pres. of geological section at Norwich 1868, and at Brighton 1872; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; made a splendid collection of palæozoic fossils in Cornwall which he presented to Jermyn st. Museum; took additional name of Godwin by royal license 1854; author of numerous papers on geology in scientific journals. d. Shalford house near Guildford 25 Nov. 1884. Geological Mag. Jany. 1885 pp. 1–10; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxviii, pp. ix-xiii (1885); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xli, 37–9 (1885).
GOLD, Charles Emilius. Ensign 65 foot 20 March 1828; lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1845 to 15 June 1860; L.G. 27 Dec. 1868. d. Dover 29 July 1871 aged 68.
GOLD, William George. Second lieut. royal staff corps 7 April 1825; lieut. col. of 53 foot 26 July 1844, of 4 foot 8 Dec. 1848 to 7 Sep. 1852, when placed on h.p.; col. of 32 foot 28 Aug. 1865, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 29 March 1868. d. Garthmyl hall, Montgomeryshire 26 Dec. 1868 aged 68.
GOLDFINCH, Sir Henry (son of Henry Goldfinch of Peckham, Surrey). b. London 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 March 1790, col. 10 Jany. 1837, col. commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 21 Nov. 1854.
GOLDIE, George. b. Mornay house, Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin. M.D. 1808; L.R.C.P. London 1812; practised in London 1812 at Warminster, at York 1815 to about 1849; phys. to York county hospital 1822–33; took charge of cholera hospital at York during epidemic of cholera 1831; took an active part in agitation for Catholic emancipation; contributed to British and Foreign Medical Review and medical journals. d. Sheffield 2 May 1853. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 510–13 (1885).
GOLDIE, George (son of the preceding). b. York 1828; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s coll. near Durham; pupil and afterwards partner of Messrs. Hatfield and Weightman of Sheffield, architects; practised in London; designed pro-cathedral at Kensington, cathedral at Sligo and many other Roman Catholic churches, convents, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland; A.R.I.B.A. d. 9 Kensington sq. London 1 March 1887.
GOLDIE, Sir George Leigh. Cornet 6 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 11 foot 29 May 1835 to 26 Feb. 1841, when placed on h.p.; col. of 77 foot 22 Dec. 1854, of 35 foot 13 Feb. 1861 to death; general 6 Nov. 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Claremont Southampton 26 March 1863 aged 72.
GOLDING, Benjamin. b. Essex; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ., M.D. 6 Dec. 1823; L.R.C.P. London 4 June 1825; physician to West London infirmary, founded the Charing Cross hospital which was the infirmary rebuilt and renamed 1831, director of it to death; published An historical account of St. Thomas’s hospital, Southwark 1819. d. The Boltons, West Brompton, London 21 June 1863 aged 69.
GOLDING, Richard. b. London 15 Aug. 1785; engraved B. West’s Death of Nelson, book plates for Don Quixote and Gil Blas, Sir T. Lawrence’s Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818, Westall’s Princess Victoria, W. Fowler’s Princess Victoria 1830 and Rubens’ St. Ambrose refusing Theodosius admission into the Church; commenced engraving Maclise’s A Peep into Futurity, for the Art Union 1842 which was still unfinished in 1852. d. in a poor lodging Stebbington st. St. Pancras, London 28 Dec. 1865. bur. Highgate cemetery, body exhumed Sep. 1866 on a suspicion that he had been poisoned by his doctor.
GOLDNEY, Philip (2 son of Thomas Goldney of Clifton). b. London 21 Nov. 1802; cadet H.E.I.C.S. 1821, capt. 11 June 1836; learned the native languages and Persian; collector and magistrate in Sind 1844; commissioner in charge of Fyzabad to 1857; lieut. col. 53 Bengal N.I. 1853–56, 22 Bengal N.I. 1856–57, 38 Bengal N.I. 1857 to death; shot by the mutineers on an island in the Gograh 9 June 1857.