William Goodwin (died 1620) was an English

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and academic,

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from 1611.

Life

He was a scholar of

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, and was elected in 1573 to

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.Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Gilpin-Greenhaugh
/ref> In 1590 he is mentioned as sub-almoner to Queen Elizabeth, and prebendary of York. He accumulated the degrees of B.D. and D.D. 1602, and on resigning his prebend in 1605 he was appointed chancellor of York, an office which he retained with many other Yorkshire benefices until 1611, when he was promoted to the deanery of Christ Church. In 1616 he became

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and rector of Great Allhallows, London; from the latter, however, he withdrew in 1617 on being presented to the living of

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. In 1616 he likewise received from the Lord-chancellor Thomas Egerton the living of

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, Oxfordshire. He was vice-chancellor of Oxford in 1614, 1615, 1617, 1618, and died 11 June 1620, in his sixty-fifth year. His remains were interred in Christ Church Cathedral, where a monument was erected to his memory. Goodwin, in his capacity of chaplain to James I, preached before the king at

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28 August 1614. This sermon was published at Oxford. He is also mentioned as having delivered sermons in memory of

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1612; of

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, 1613; and of

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, 1618, at the chapel of St. Mary's, Oxford.

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preached his funeral sermon in Latin, published at Oxford in 1620.

References

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