Timothy Goodwin
Timothy Goodwin, Godwin or Godwyn (1670?–1729) was an English churchman, who became archbishop of Cashel.
Life
He was born at
St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. on 22 January 1697.[1]
He was domestic chaplain to
William Nicholson
.
Godwin is specifically thanked by
John Potter, the future archbishop of Canterbury, for the establishment of certain texts of that author.[2] He was less responsive to moves for a rapprochement with Gallican circles in France.[3]
He died in Dublin on 13 December 1729. He published two separate sermons in 1716, and a third in 1724.
He married Anne Anderson, daughter and co-heiress of Charles Anderson of Worcester. Her sister Charlotte married Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn.
Notes
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Gilpin-Greenhaugh
- Migne, Patrologia GraecaXLVII, col.xxiii.
- ^ See Grès-Gayer, Paris-Cantorbéry 1717–1720.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Goodwin, Timothy". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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