Judith Godwin (correspondent)
Judith Godwin | |
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| Born | Howel Harris |
| Spouse(s) | Samuel Jones |
Judith Godwin (died 25 January 1746) was a noted correspondent of
Life
Godwin was born in Radnorshire in Wales. Her name was Weaver and it is thought that she was related to a Puritan minister at Radnor named John Weaver. She married the controversial academic Samuel Jones.[1] He had founded an academy at Tewkesbury in 1713 which faced difficulties and he had turned to drink.[2] Jones's house had been attacked by rioters in 1714, the day of the coronation of George I.[3] Jones married Godwin shortly before his death at Tewkesbury on 11 October 1719 aged thirty-seven.
Godwin was a noted correspondent who later married Edward Godwin, her husband's former student, in 1721.
Godwin died in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 25 January 1746.[4]
Legacy
Edward and Judith Godwin were the parents of Edward who was born in 1722 and John Godwin the following year. John was an Independent minister who became the father of radical philosopher and theologian William Godwin, husband and biographer of the philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. They were the parents of the writer Mary Shelley (and Judith was her grandmother).[4]
References
- ^ "JONES, SAMUEL ([ 1681? ]- 1719), Dissenting Academy tutor | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ^ The autobiography of Thomas Secker, archbishop of Canterbury, ed. J. S. Macauley and R. W. Greaves (1988), pp. 3–4
- ^ 'An account of the dissenting academies from the Restoration of Charles the Second', Doctor Williams's Library, MS 24.59, pp. 25–6, 60–62
- ^ a b c d "GODWIN, JUDITH (died 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
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