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Henry Godfrey (Queens')
Henry Godfrey may refer to: * Henry Godfrey (academic) (1781–1832), English clergyman and academic, President of Queens' College, Cambridge * Henry Godfrey (pioneer) (1824–1882), pioneer and settler of Victoria, Australia * Henry Ronald Godfrey (1887–1968), English motor car design engineer {{hndis, Godfrey, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Godfrey (academic)
Henry Godfrey (1781 – 16 October 1832) was an English clergyman and academic, who served as President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1820–1832. Henry Godfrey was the son of Henry Godfrey, a grocer of Newgate Street, London. He was admitted to St Paul's School, London in 1793, aged 12, and went to Queens' College, Cambridge with a St Paul's exhibition in 1798, graduating B.A. ( 13th Wrangler) 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. 1813, D.D. 1822 ('' per lit. reg.''). He was ordained deacon in June 1802 and priest in December 1803, and was elected a Fellow of Queens' College in 1803. Following the death of Isaac Milner, Godfrey was elected President of Queens' College on 9 April 1820. The election was challenged by two petitions to the Crown by Joshua King Joshua King (16 January 1798 – 1 September 1857) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1839 to 1849. He was also the President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1832 until his death and Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Godfrey (pioneer)
Henry Godfrey (1824–1882) was an early 19th-century pioneer / settler of Victoria, Australia. He was born at Madras, India (now Chennai, India) on 4 June 1824, the son of Major John Race Godfrey, an East India Company man, and his wife Jane Octavia, née Woodhouse. Godfrey arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 1843 as a young man of 19 years on the ship the Duke of Roxburgh, in company with Francis Russell Nixon, the first Bishop of Tasmania. He subsequently made his way to Victoria and settled on a number of pastoral runs or properties. An amateur on the violincello, Godfrey was also an accomplished amateur sketcher and his sketchbook, now in the State Library of Victoria, contains hundreds of sketches from the voyage and the colonies, as well as some from England. The collection forms a significant pictorial record of the early colonial period of Port Phillip (Victoria) and Aboriginal life of the period. Godfrey established himself on the Gobur Station on the Goulbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |