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LEFT GODFREY 345 GODKIN" of parents; but the present rule of the Church of England, following the rubric of the American Prayer Book, does so allow. GODFREY, EDWARD SETTLE, an American soldier, born in Kalida, O., in 1843. He was educated in the public schools and at Vermilion Institute. He served throughout the Civil War as a pri- vate and at the close entered the United States Military Academy from which he graduated in 1867. In the same year he was appointed 2d lieutenant. He rose through the various grades, becoming colonel of the 9th Cavalry in 1901, and brigadier-general in 1907. He saw much service against the Indians in the West and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1877. He took part in all the campaigns under General Cus- ter until the later's death. From 1879 to 1883 he was instructor of cavalry tac- tics at the United States Military Acad- emy. He saw service in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands and was retired by operation of the law, in 1907. He wrote "Custer's Last Battle" (1892). He was a member of many military societies. GODFREY, HOLLIS, an American ed- ucator and engineer, born at Lynn, Mass. in 1874, He graduated from Tufts Col- lege in 1895 and took post-graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard. From 1898 to 1905 he engaged in teaching en- gineering, and from 1906 to 1910 was head of the department of science at the School of Practical Arts, in Boston. He was consulting engineer to the cities of Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and several private corporations, from 1910-1917. In 1913 he was chosen president of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. Dur- ing the World War he was commissioner of the advisory committee of the Council of National Defense, and was in charge of its section of engineering and educa- tion. He was a member of many en- gineering societies. He wrote "The Man Who Ended War" (1908) ; "Elementary Chemistry" (1909) ; and "The Health of the City" (1910). He was a frequent contributor to engineering and scientific journals. GODFREY OF BOUILLON (bo-yon') , leader of the first crusade, son of Eustace II., Count of Boulogne; born near Ni- velles, in 1061. He distinguished him- self while fighting for the Emperor Henry IV. in Germany and Italy, and was made Duke of Bouillon. In order to expiate his sin of fighting against the Pope, he took the cross for the Holy Land in 1095, and led 80,000 men to the East by way of Constantinople. On May 1, 1097, they crossed the Bosporus, and be- gan their march on Nice (Nicaea), which they took in June. In July the way to Syria was opened by the victory of Dorylaeum (Eski Shehr),in Phrygia, and before the end of 1097 the crusaders en- camped before Antioch. The town of Antioch fell into their hands in 1098, and in the following year Godfrey took Jerusalem itself, after five weeks' siege. The leaders of the army elected him king of the city and the territory; but Godfrey would not wear a crown in the place where Christ was crowned with thorns; and contented himself with the title of Duke and Guardian of the Holy Sepulcher. The defeat of the Egyptians at Ascalon placed him in possession of all the Holy Land, excepting two or three places. Godfrey now turned his attention to the organization of his newly established government, and pro- mulgated a code of feudal laws called the Assize of Jerusalem. Godfrey was a favorite subject of mediaeval poetry, and is the central figure of Tasso's "Jerusa- lem Delivered." He died in Jerusalem, July 18, 1100. GODIVA (go-d!'va) the wife of Leo- fric. Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coven- try in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Tradition says that, in 1040, she rode on her palfrey naked through the town of Coventry on her husband's promise that, if she would do so he would relieve the inhabitants of certain exactions which bore heavily on them. She had first proclaimed that no one should leave his house before noon, that all windows and other apertures in the houses should be closed, and that no one should even look out till noon was past. Only one person, "Peeping Tom," the story says, at- tempted to look out, and he was immedi- ately struck blind. A yearly pageant, in which a young woman enacted the part of Godiva, was long kept up at Coventry, and still occasionally takes place. Tenny- son based one of his delightful poems on this incident. GODKIN, EDWIN LAWRENCE, an American journalist and essayist; born in Moyne, Ireland, Oct. 2, 1831. He grad- uated from Queen's College, and came to the United States in early manhood. After 1865 he was prominent in journal- ism. In addition to a "History of Hun- gary," and editorial work on the New York "Nation" and "Evening Post," he produced miscellaneous essays, the most prominent of which appear in "The Prob- lems of Modern Democracy" and "Re- flections and Comments"; also "Unfore- seen Tendencies of Democracy" (1898). He died in 1902.