Independent congregation meeting at Paved Alley Church, Lime Street, in the parish of St Dunstan’s-in-the-East, and rapidly rose to considerable eminence as a preacher; in 1643 he was chosen a member of the Westminster Assembly, and at once identified himself with the Congregational party, generally referred to in contemporary documents as “the dissenting brethren.” He frequently preached by appointment before the Commons, and in January 1650 his talents and learning were rewarded by the House with the presidentship of Magdalen College, Oxford, a post which he held until the Restoration. He rose into high favour with the protector, and was one of his intimate advisers, attending him on his death-bed. He was also a commissioner for the inventory of the Westminster Assembly, 1650, and for the approbation of preachers, 1653, and together with John Owen (q.v.) drew up an amended Westminster Confession in 1658. From 1660 until his death on the 23rd of February 1680 he lived in London, and devoted himself exclusively to theological study and to the pastoral charge of the Fetter Lane Independent Church.
The works published by Goodwin during his lifetime consist chiefly of sermons printed by order of the House of Commons; but he was also associated with Philip Nye and others in the preparation of the Apologeticall Narration (1643). His collected writings, which include expositions of the Epistle to the Ephesians and of the Apocalypse, were published in five folio volumes between 1681 and 1704, and were reprinted in twelve 8vo volumes (Edin., 1861–1866). Characterized by abundant yet one-sided reading, remarkable at once for the depth and for the narrowness of their observation and spiritual experience, often admirably thorough in their workmanship, yet in style intolerably prolix—they fairly exemplify both the merits and the defects of the special school of religious thought to which they belong. Calamy’s estimate of Goodwin’s qualities may be quoted as both friendly and just. “He was a considerable scholar and an eminent divine, and had a very happy faculty in descanting upon Scripture so as to bring forth surprising remarks, which yet generally tended to illustration.” A memoir, derived from his own papers, by his son (Thomas Goodwin, “the younger,” 1650?–1716?, Independent minister at London and Pinner, and author of the History of the Reign of Henry V.) is prefixed to the fifth volume of his collected works; as a “patriarch and Atlas of Independency” he is also noticed by Anthony Wood in the Athenae Oxonienses. An amusing sketch, from Addison’s point of view, of the austere and somewhat fanatical president of Magdalen is preserved in No. 494 of the Spectator.
GOODWIN, WILLIAM WATSON (1831–), American
classical scholar, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the
9th of May 1831. He graduated at Harvard in 1851, studied in
Germany, was tutor in Greek at Harvard in 1856–1860, and
Eliot professor of Greek there from 1860 until his resignation in
1901. He became an overseer of Harvard in 1903. In 1882–1883
he was the first director of the American School for Classical
Studies at Athens. Goodwin edited the Panegyricus of Isocrates
(1864) and Demosthenes On The Crown (1901); and assisted in
preparing the seventh edition of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English
Lexicon. He revised an English version by several
writers of Plutarch’s Morals (5 vols., 1871; 6th ed., 1889), and
published the Greek text with literal English version of Aeschylus’
Agamemnon (1906) for the Harvard production of that play in
June 1906. As a teacher he did much to raise the tone of classical
reading from that of a mechanical exercise to literary study.
But his most important work was his Syntax of the Moods and
Tenses of the Greek Verb (1860), of which the seventh revised
edition appeared in 1877 and another (enlarged) in 1890. This
was “based in part on Madvig and Krüger,” but, besides making
accessible to American students the works of these continental
grammarians, it presented original matter, including a “radical
innovation in the classification of conditional sentences,” notably
the “distinction between particular and general suppositions.”
Goodwin’s Greek Grammar (elementary edition, 1870; enlarged
1879; revised and enlarged 1892) gradually superseded in most
American schools the Grammar of Hadley and Allen. Both the
Moods and Tenses and the Grammar in later editions are largely
dependent on the theories of Gildersleeve for additions and
changes. Goodwin also wrote a few elaborate syntactical
studies, to be found in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,
the twelfth volume of which was dedicated to him upon the
completion of fifty years as an alumnus of Harvard and forty-one
years as Eliot professor.
GOODWIN SANDS, a dangerous line of shoals at the entrance
to the Strait of Dover from the North Sea, about 6 m. from the
Kent coast of England, from which they are separated by the
anchorage of the Downs. For this they form a shelter. They
are partly exposed at low water, but the sands are shifting, and
in spite of lights and bell-buoys the Goodwins are frequently
the scene of wrecks, while attempts to erect a lighthouse or
beacon have failed. Tradition finds in the Goodwins the remnant
of an island called Lomea, which belonged to Earl Godwine in
the first half of the 11th century, and was afterwards submerged,
when the funds devoted to its protection were diverted to build
the church steeple at Tenterden (q.v.). Four lightships mark
the limits of the sands, and also signal by rockets to the lifeboat
stations on the coast when any vessel is in distress on the sands.
Perhaps the most terrible catastrophe recorded here was the
wreck of thirteen ships of war during a great storm in November
1703.
GOODWOOD, a mansion in the parish of Boxgrove, in the Chichester parliamentary division of Sussex, England, 4 m. N.E. of Chichester. It was built from designs of Sir William Chambers with additions by Wyatt, after the purchase of the property by the first duke of Richmond in 1720. The park is in a hilly district, and is enriched with magnificent trees of many varieties, including some huge cedars. In it is a building containing a Roman slab recording the construction of a temple to Minerva and Neptune at Chichester. There is mention of a British tributary prince named Cogidubnus, who perhaps served also as a Roman official. A reference to early Christianity in Britain has been erroneously read into this inscription. On the racecourse a famous annual meeting, dating from 1802, is held in July. The parish church of SS. Mary and Blaize, Boxgrove, is almost entirely a rich specimen of Early English work.
GOODYEAR, CHARLES (1800–1860), American inventor, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 29th of December 1800, the son of Amasa Goodyear, an inventor (especially of farming implements) and a pioneer in the manufacture of hardware in America. The family removed to Naugatuck, Conn., when Charles was a boy; he worked in his father’s button factory and studied at home until 1816, when he apprenticed himself to a firm of hardware merchants in Philadelphia. In 1821 he returned to Connecticut and entered into a partnership with his father at Naugatuck, which continued till 1830, when it was terminated by business reverses. Already he was interested in an attempt to discover a method of treatment by which indiarubber could be made into merchandizable articles that would stand extremes of heat and cold. To the solution of this problem the next ten years of his life were devoted. With ceaseless energy and unwavering faith in the successful outcome of his labours, in the face of repeated failures and hampered by poverty, which several times led him to a debtor’s prison, he persevered in his endeavours. For a time he seemed to have succeeded with a treatment (or “cure”) of the rubber with aqua fortis. In 1836 he secured a contract for the manufacture by this process of mail bags for the U.S. government, but the rubber fabric was useless at high temperatures. In 1837 he met and worked with Nathaniel Hayward (1808–1865), who had been an employee of a rubber factory in Roxbury and had made experiments with sulphur mixed with rubber. Goodyear bought from Hayward the right to use this imperfect process. In 1839, by dropping on a hot stove some indiarubber mixed with sulphur, he discovered accidentally the process for the vulcanization of rubber. Two years more passed before he could find any one who had faith enough in his discovery to invest money in it. At last, in 1844, by which time he had perfected his process, his first patent was granted, and in the subsequent years more than sixty patents were granted to him for the application of his original process to various uses. Numerous infringements had to be fought in the courts, the decisive victory coming in 1852 in the case of Goodyear v. Day, in which his rights were defended by Daniel Webster and opposed by Rufus Choate. In 1852 he went to England, where articles made under his patents had been displayed at the International Exhibition of 1851, but he
