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Admitted 21 January, 1740-1.

Second son of William Glynn of Glynn, Cornwall. On 28 Jan. 1747-8 he was called to the Bar. In 1763 he became Serjeant-at-Law, and in the following year Recorder of Exeter. He had a great reputation as a pleader, and he was engaged on the trial of Mr. Wilkes in 1764 and 1768, of John Almon in 1765, and in many other celebrated cases. In 1768 he contested Middlesex against the Government candidate, and was returned, and was re-elected in 1774 as the colleague of Wilkes. In 1772 he was elected Recorder of London. His speeches in Parliament have been highly praised, and both as a lawyer and a politician his abilities were unquestioned. He died 16 Sept. 1779.

Admitted 30 June, 1565.

Third son of Thomas Goddard of Overton, co. Wilts. Very little is known of his life, but he seems to have lived much in the Low Countries. He is probably identical with the author of three satirical books, copies of which are rare. The first is A Satyrical Dialogue, or a Conference between Alexander the Great and Diogynes (Dort. 1615); the second A Neaste of Waspes (1615); and the third A Mastif Whelp (1598).

Admitted 23 Jan. 1838.

Eldest son of John Godley of Killigar (Killegar), co. Leitrim. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he graduated in 1836. If called to the Bar, which is doubtful, he practised little, turning his attention chiefly to questions of colonization. In conjunction with Edward Gibbon Wakefield he founded the settlement of Canterbury, New Zealand, whither he proceeded in 1849. On his return to England in 1852, he entered the War Office, and was Under Secretary of War under Lord Panmure. He died 17 Nov. 1861.

In Letters from America, published in 1844, he gave his impressions of that country; and in 1847 he published Observations on an Irish Poor Law. After his death a selection from his writings and speeches, with a Memoir, was edited by J. E. Fitzgerald, and published at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1863.

Admitted 5 February, 1678-9.

Second son of Richard Goodenough of Sherstone, co. Wilts. This is probably the Richard Goodenough who was at one time Under Sheriff of London, and who was charged with being concerned in 1683 in a riot and assault on the Lord Mayor, Sir John Moore, and found guilty and fined, as in a memorandum in the 12th Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (Appendix, p. 55), he is spoken of as "of the Temple," though in the account of the trial he is described as an Attorney. In the same year he was implicated in the Rye House Plot and escaped to the Low Countries, where he remained till the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth {q.v.), who made him his Secretary of State. After the battle of Sedgemoor he was taken prisoner together with (q.v.), another member of the Inn, but was pardoned as one likely to give useful information to the King. His latter days are said to have been spent in Ireland "in the practice of the law."