GOODWIN, Charles Wycliffe (eld. son of Charles Goodwin of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor). b. King’s Lynn 1817; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1848; edited the Literary Gazette 1871, The Parthenon 1872; assistant judge of supreme court for China and Japan 31 March 1865, acting judge 1869 and 22 May 1876 to death; wrote essays on Hieratic Papyri in Cambridge Essays 1858, and On the Mosaic Cosmogony in Essays and Reviews 1860. d. Shanghai 17 Jany. 1878.
GOODWIN, Josiah. Journalist in Devonshire; editor of Journal of Bath and West of England Soc. 1859–90, sec. 1866–83; assisted in editing Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc. 1863 etc. d. Bath 3 June 1890 aged 70. I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741, portrait.
GOODWIN, Thomas (brother of William Goodwin, music librarian, d. 1 April 1876). b. London 1799; landed in New York 24 Aug. 1827; music librarian New York. d. New York 28 June 1886. O. Mason’s Sketches and Impressions from after dinner talk of T. Goodwin (1887) p. iii.
GOODWYN, Henry. 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. col. 5 Dec. 1848, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1855 to death; general 14 July 1871; author of Memoir on the Taperchain suspension bridge, Calcutta 1844; The last Adam 1868; The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ 1877. d. Bournemouth 8 Nov. 1886.
GOODWYN, Julius Edmund (son of Wildman Goodwyn of Blackheath). b. 21 Feb. 1824; ensign 41 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to March 1866; brigadier general Bengal 14 March 1866 to 28 Feb. 1870; col. of 1 battalion Gloucestershire regiment 5 Nov. 1880, of 1 battalion Welsh regiment 20 Jany. 1883 to death; general 10 Jany. 1881; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; author of Antitypical parallels, or the kingdom of Israel and of Heaven, By Gershom 1866. d. Bath 4 March 1890.
GOOLD, Wyndham (youngest son of Thomas Goold of Dublin, master in chancery, who d. 16 July 1846). Ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar 1837; M.P. for co. Limerick 14 Dec. 1850 to death. d. London 27 Nov. 1854 in 40 year.
GORDON, Edward Strathearn Gordon, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Gordon, major 2 foot). b. Inverness 10 April 1814; ed. at royal academy, Inverness and Univ. of Edin.; LL.B. Glasgow and Edin.; called to bar in Scotland 1835; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; sheriff of Perthshire 26 July 1858 to 12 July 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1866 to 28 Feb. 1867; lord advocate of Scotland 28 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868 and 26 Feb. 1874 to Oct. 1876; M.P. for Thetford 3 Dec. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868 when borough was disfranchised; contested Glasgow and Aberdeen univs. 1868, M.P. for these univs. 1869–76; dean of faculty of advocates 1869–74; P.C. 17 March 1874; lord of appeal in ordinary 6 Oct. 1876 to death; created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, co. Stirling 6 Oct. 1876. d. Brussels 21 Aug. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii, 541–2 (1879).
GORDON, Adam Lindsay (son of Capt. Adam D. Gordon). b. Fayal in the Azores 1833; educ. Cheltenham coll. and Woolwich; in the mounted police, South Australia 1853; a horse breaker; member of the house of assembly, Victoria 1865; livery stable keeper Ballarat 1867; a steeple chaser; settled at Brighton near Melbourne 1869; failed in securing reversion to Esselmont estate, Scotland 1869; author of Sea spray and smoke drift 1867; Bush ballads and galloping rhymes 1870; Ashtaroth, a dramatic lyric; shot himself on the beach at Brighton 24 June 1870. J. H. Ross’ Laureate of the Centaurs (1888), portrait; Poems ed. by Marcus Clarke (1887); Temple Bar, Feb. 1884 pp. 208–20.
GORDON, Alexander (2 son of David Gordon, inventor of system of compressing gas, who d. about 1830). b. New York 5 May 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; manager of the portable gas works in London until they were abolished about 1827; constructed many lighthouses, especially in the colonies; designed and erected the original great sea-light in an iron tower at Morant point, Jamaica, the first of many of a similar character 1842; founded with Sir George Cayley and others the Polytechnic Institution, London 1838; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1827, M.I.C.E. 17 Feb. 1835; his widow Sarah Gordon granted civil list pension of £50, 20 Dec. 1872; author of An historical and practical treatise upon elemental locomotion 1832, 3 ed. 1836 and other books. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 14 May 1868.
GORDON, Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff- 3 Baronet (elder son of Sir Wm. Duff-Gordon, 2 baronet 1772–1823). b. Great Marylebone st. London 3 Feb. 1811; ed. at Eton; a senior clerk in Treasury 1854–56; sec. to chancellor of Exchequer 1854; a comr. of Board of Inland Revenue 1856; asst. gentleman usher of privy chamber to death; translated Von Ense’s Sketches of German life 1847, A. Weill’s Village tales from Alsatia 1847; translated with his wife Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, L. Ranke’s Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg and history of Prussia 3 vols. 1849. d. 4 Upper Eccleston st. Belgrave sq. London 27 Oct. 1872.