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Author: Goode, William

Biography:

GOODE, William (1762-1816: ODNB)

He was born on 2 Apr. 1762 at Buckingham, the son of William Goode (1721-80), tradesman, and his wife Catherine Bourne (1721-82). He was educated at Rev. William Bull’s academy at Newport Pagnell and prepared for Oxford by Rev. Thomas Clarke at Chesham Bois (both Buckinghamshire). He proceeded to Magdalen Hall, Oxford (matric. 1780, BA 1784, MA 1787). He was ordained deacon (1784) and priest (1786) and became curate of Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, in 1784, and of Kings Langley in 1785. In 1786 he was curate at St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Ann’s Blackfriars in London, and would succeed as rector in 1795. He secured two lectureships at St. Ann’s in 1789 and at St. Lawrence Jewry in 1793 and was elected Secretary of the Society for the Relief of Poor Pious Clergyman in 1795, a post he held, mostly unpaid, until his death. He added lectureships at St. John at Wapping in 1796 and Christ Church, Spitalfields, in 1807. He was elected president of Sion College in 1813. Increasingly evangelical, he promoted the Church Missionary Society. He married Rebecca Coles (1757-1843) on 7 Nov. 1786 at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, City of London. They went on to have fourteen children. He died at Stockwell, Lambeth, South London, on 15 Apr. 1816 and was buried at St. Ann’s, Blackfriars. His son collected many of his essays and lectures and prefixed a memoir, in Essays on all the Scriptural Names and Titles of Christ (6 vols. 1822), the memoir being reprinted with a selection of letters in 1828. (ODNB 16 Dec. 2022; “Memoir” (1828); Julian 441-2; John Holland, The Psalmists of Britain [1843], 2: 282-5; Josiah Miller, Singers and Songs of the Church [1869], 331-2; Morning Post 19 Apr. 1816; GM Apr. 1816, 381; SJC 21 Feb. 1843) AA

 

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