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Thomas Good (other)
Thomas Good (1609–1678) was an English academic and clergyman. Thomas Good may also refer to: * Thomas Sword Good (1789–1872), British painter * Thomas Good (merchant) Thomas Good was a merchant of Adelaide, South Australia, a founder of the wholesale drapery business of Good, Toms & Co. History Thomas Good (c. 1822 – 21 January 1889) of Birmingham left England for South Australia in the ''John Mitchell'' w ... (1822–1889), merchant of Adelaide, South Australia * T. D. Good (1874–1958), Irish badminton player See also * Thomas Goode (other) {{Hndis, Good, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Good
Thomas Good (aka Thomas Goode, 1609 – 9 April 1678) was an English academic and clergyman, and Master of Balliol College, Oxford. He is known as a moderate in and orthodox apologist for the Church of England, engaging with Richard Baxter and urging him to clarify a 'middle way'. Life Originally from the Tenbury Wells area of Worcestershire, England, Good was educated at the King's School, Worcester in the time of Henry Bright.John Jones, âGood, Thomas (1609/10–1678)€™, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2008. Accessed 7 February 2011. He was admitted scholar at Balliol College in 1624, and took the degree of B.A. in 1628. Next year he was elected probationer-fellow, and in 1630 fellow of his college. He proceeded M.A. in 1631, and B.D. in 1639. He became vicar of St Alkmund's in Shrewsbury, probably in 1642. From this living, he was then ejected; but he continued to hold the rectory of Coreley in Shropshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sword Good
Thomas Sword Good (1789–1872) was a British painter, known for genre works. Life Good was born at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 4 December 1789, and spent most of his life there. He was brought up as a house-painter, but in course of time began to execute portrait. From this he passed to genre painting, and between 1820 and 1834 exhibited at the principal London exhibitions. He stopped painting in the mid-1830s. He died in his house at 20 Quay Walls of his native town, 15 April 1872. Little is known of his life, but he visited London and David Wilkie, to whose school of painting his works belong. Works To the Royal Academy he sent in 1820 'A Scotch Shepherd;' 'in 1821 'Music' and 'A Man with a Hare;' in 1822 (the year in which Wilkie's 'Chelsea Pensioners' was exhibited) 'Two Old Men (still living) who fought at the Battle of Minden,' later in the possession of Frederick Locker-Lampson. To the same year belongs 'An Old Northumbrian Piper.' In 1823 he exhibited 'Practice' (probabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Good (merchant)
Thomas Good was a merchant of Adelaide, South Australia, a founder of the wholesale drapery business of Good, Toms & Co. History Thomas Good (c. 1822 – 21 January 1889) of Birmingham left England for South Australia in the ''John Mitchell'' with (later Sir) Charles Goode ( – 5 February 1922), arriving in Adelaide in April 1849. Together they travelled the State by horse and cart hawking softgoods (soft goods being cloth and articles made from it), and were successful enough to start a small drapery business in Kermode Street, North Adelaide. They each married a sister of the other. In 1850 John Good & Co. began trading as drapers in Rundle Street, Adelaide, opposite Berry's China Warehouse. In January 1853 he opened a general store opposite Low's Inn, Mount Barker, followed by a grain store which in 1864 he sold to William Barker, previously a partner of Sidney George Wilcox's brothers Joseph and Emery in Gawler. In 1872 Good and Samuel Toms founded the wholesale firm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
