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William Godfrey (other)
William Godfrey was an English Roman Catholic cardinal. William Godfrey may also refer to: Baronets *Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet (1739–1817), MP for Tralee and Belfast *Sir William Godfrey, 3rd Baronet (1797–1873), Anglo-Irish aristocrat and landowner *Sir William Cecil Godfrey, 5th Baronet (1857–1926), of the Godfrey baronets *Sir William Maurice Godfrey, 7th Baronet (1909–1971), of the Godfrey baronets * Sir William Wellington Godfrey (1880–1952), British general Others * William Godfrey, one pseudonym used by Sam Youd (1922–2012), known best as John Christopher *W. G. Godfrey (1941–2008), Canadian historian * William Godfrey (bishop) (born 1948), Anglican Bishop of Uruguay and of Peru See also *Godfrey (name) Godfrey is a given name and an English surname. The given name is derived from the Old French ''Godefroy'', a name composed of the elements: the first being either ''god'' ("god") or ''gōd'' ("good"); the second being ''fred'' ("peace"). The name w .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Godfrey
William Godfrey (1889–1963) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster and ''de facto'' primate of England and Wales from 1956 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. Biography William Godfrey was born in Liverpool to George and Mary Godfrey. His father was a haulage contractor. He leaned towards the priesthood from an early age, never taking any alternative into serious consideration.TIME MagazineNew Archbishop18 February 1957 After studying at Ushaw College, Durham, and the English College, Rome, he was ordained a priest on 28 October 1916 in Rome. He then finished his studies in 1918, obtaining his doctorates in theology and philosophy in 1917, and did pastoral work in Liverpool until 1919. He taught Classics, Philosophy and Theology at Ushaw from 1918 to 1930, the year when he was appointed rector of the English College, Rome and given the title Monsignor (28 October). At the college, the strict pries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet
Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet (1739 – 1817) was an Anglo-Irish member of the Irish House of Commons. Godfrey was the son of John Godfrey, Esquire and Barbara, the daughter of Reverend Hathway. He was a great-grandson of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby and his family owned a sizeable estate in County Kerry. He served as High Sheriff of Kerry in 1780. He was Member of Parliament for Tralee between 1785 and 1790. On 17 June 1785, he was created a baronet, of Bushfield in County Kerry. He subsequently served as MP for Belfast between 1792 and 1797. Godfrey rebuilt the family home at Bushfield House near Milltown, County Kerry, renaming it Kicolman Abbey in reference to the family's ownership of Killagha Abbey Killagha Abbey of Our Lady of Bello Loco, also called Kilcolman Abbey, is a ruined Augustinian abbey and former manor house in County Kerry, Ireland. The abbey is situated one and a half miles north-west of Milltown on the banks of the River Ma .... Godfrey ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Godfrey, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Duncan Godfrey, 3rd Baronet (1797–1873) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and landowner. Sir William Godfrey was born at Kilcolman Abbey, Milltown on the family estate in County Kerry, Ireland. He was the son of Sir John Godfrey, 2nd Baronet. He was sent to England for his education, attending Westminster School. He subsequently studied at an academy in Geneva, before embarking on the Grand Tour.John Knightly, ''The Godfrey Estate During the Great Famine'' http://www.kerryhistory.ie/documents/5.%20Godfrey.pdf (Accessed 25 February 2014), 125 Despite his cosmopolitan upbringing, Godfrey returned to Ireland following his travels in Europe, and remained in County Kerry for most of his life. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1822 and became a captain of the Milltown Infantry contingent in 1824. He was sworn in as High Sheriff of Kerry in 1829. At the insistence of his friend, Valentine Browne, 2nd Earl of Kenmare, Godfrey was made a Deputy Lieutenant for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Baronets
The Godfrey Baronetcy of Bushfield in the County of Kerry was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 17 June 1785 for William Godfrey, member of the Irish House of Commons for Tralee. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1971. The Godfrey family had arrived in Ireland during the Cromwellian conquest. Major John Godfrey of Kent was an officer in the New Model Army, and was granted the estates of Killagha Abbey following their seizure from the Catholic Walter Spring. The estate amounted to approximately 7,000 acres.John Knightly, ''The Godfrey Estate During the Great Famine'' http://www.kerryhistory.ie/documents/5.%20Godfrey.pdf (Retrieved 25 February 2014) One of Major Godfrey's descendants, also John, founded the settlement at Milltown to serve as the economic focal point for his holdings. His eldest son was Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet, who rebuilt the family's principle residence at Bushfield House, Milltown, and renamed it Kilc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wellington Godfrey
General Sir William Wellington Godfrey, (2 April 1880 – 18 May 1952) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines. Military career Educated at Dulwich College, Godfrey was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery on 1 September 1898. Godfrey made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's in 1912, scoring 15 runs in the match. He served on the staff of Captain John de Robeck for the evacuation from Gallipoli in January 1916 during the First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin .... He went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General Royal Marines in 1930, Commandant of the Portsmouth Division Royal Marines in 1930 and Adjutant-General Royal Marines in October 1936 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christopher
Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), was a British writer, best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels ''The Death of Grass'', ''The Possessors'', and the young-adult novel series ''The Tripods''. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye. Biography Sam Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire (though Youd is an old Cheshire surname). Youd was educated at Peter Symonds' School in Winchester, Hampshire, then served in the Royal Corps of Signals from 1941 to 1946. A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to pursue a writing career, beginning with ''The Winter Swan'' (Dennis Dobson, 1949), published under the name Christopher Youd. He wrote science fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Godfrey (bishop)
Harold William Godfrey (born 21 April 1948) is an Anglican bishop who was Bishop of Peru from 1998 to 2017. He was educated at Chesterfield School, trained for the ministry at King's College London ( AKC; Jelf Medal) and spent his last year there at St Augustine's College, Canterbury.‘PERU, Bishop of’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014 He was Bishop of Uruguay The Anglican Church of South America ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Formed in 198 ... from 1988 to 1998. References 1948 births Living people Alumni of the Theological Department of King's College London Associates of King's College London 20th-century Anglican bishops in South America 21st-century Anglican bishops in South America Anglican bishops of Uruguay Anglican bishops of Peru {{Anglic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
