William Goodhugh (1799?–1842) was an English bookseller and writer.
Life
Born about 1799, Goodhugh was for some time a bookseller at 155
Oxford Street
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, London. To help with bibliography, he studied languages. He became prominent by learned criticisms of John Bellamy's new translation of the Bible, in the ''
Quarterly Review
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'' for April 1818 and July 1820. In 1840 he issued proposals for a society to be called the "Dugdale Society" for genealogical research on British families, but the project came to nothing.
Goodhugh died at
Chelsea, London
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on 23 May 1842, aged 43, leaving a son and a daughter.
Works
For a few years before his death, Goodhugh had been working on a biblical
encyclopedia
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, which he had compiled to the letter R. ''The Bible Cyclopaedia'' appeared in two volumes, the second in 1843 carrying an ''Advertisement'' with a letter from
William Cooke Taylor
William Cooke Taylor (1800–1849) was an Irish writer, known as a journalist, historian and Anti-Corn Law propagandist.
Life and work
He was born at Youghal on 16 April 1800.Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Journal, 1861, p. 263. Throu ...
on the completion of the work, and a small amount of information on contributors.
Goodhugh also published:
* ''The Gate to the French, Italian, and Spanish Unlocked'' (anon.), London, 1827.
* ''The Gate to the Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac Unlocked by a new and easy method of acquiring the accidence'' (anon.), London, 1827.
* ''The English Gentleman's Library Manual, or a Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature'', London, 1827.
* ''Motives to the Study of Biblical Literature in a course of introductory lectures'', London, 1838; another edition, without Goodhugh's name, was issued in 1839.
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1799 births
1842 deaths
English lexicographers
British biblical scholars
Linguists from the United Kingdom
English booksellers
Writers from London
19th-century English businesspeople
19th-century lexicographers