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 at Shepperton, Middlesex. Only one other child, a daughter, survived him. His son-in-law, the Rev. Cornelius Neale, senior wrangler in 1812, died in 1823. His grandson was Dr. J. M. Neale [q. v.]

No man could be more conscientious or industrious than Good. He had a striking power of acquiring knowledge and of arranging it in an orderly fashion. But he was without creative ability, and hence his works, while full of erudition, pleasingly though not brilliantly imparted, are not of permanent value. He was always active in works of benevolence, and had strong religious feelings. During the latter part of his residence at Sudbury he became a Socinian or unitarian, and from the time of his settling in London to 1807 he was a member of a unitarian church. In that year he withdrew, in consequence of what he considered recommendations of scepticism delivered from the pulpit, and he afterwards became a member of the established church, attaching himself to the evangelicals. In his later years he was an active supporter of the Church Missionary Society, giving the missionaries instruction in useful medical knowledge.

Good wrote: 1. ‘Maria, an Elegiac Ode,’ 1786, 4to. 2. ‘Dissertation on the Diseases of Prisons and Poorhouses,’ 1795. 3. ‘History of Medicine, so far as it relates to the Profession of the Apothecary,’ 1795, 2nd edit. 1796, with an answer to a tract entitled ‘Murepsologia,’ criticising the first edition. 4. ‘Dissertation on the best Means of employing the Poor in Parish Workhouses,’ 1798. 5. ‘The Song of Songs, or Sacred Idyls,’ translated from the Hebrew, with notes critical and explanatory, 1803; two translations, one literal, the other metrical, are given, and the book is regarded as a collection of love-songs. 6. ‘The Triumph of Britain,’ an ode, 1803. 7. ‘Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Geddes, LL.D. [q. v.] ’, 1803. 8. ‘The Nature of Things; translated from Lucretius, with the original Text and Notes, Philological and Explanatory,’ 2 vols. 4to, 1805–7. Jeffrey, in the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ x. 217–34, wrote: ‘These vast volumes are more like the work of a learned German professor than of an ungraduated Englishman. They display extensive erudition, considerable judgment, and some taste; yet they are extremely dull and uninteresting.’ This translation has since been published in Bohn's Classical Library. 9. ‘Oration before the Medical Society of London on the Structure and Physiology of Plants,’ 1808. 10. ‘Essay on Medical Technology,’ 1810 (‘Trans. Medical Society,’ 1808). This essay gained the Fothergillian medal. 11. ‘The Book of Job, literally translated, with Notes and an Introductory Dissertation,’ 1812, 8vo. 12. ‘Memoir of Rev. John Mason, prefixed to a new edition of his “Treatise on Self-Knowledge,”’ 1812. 13. ‘Pantologia,’ in conjunction with Olinthus Gregory and Newton Bosworth, 12 vols. 1802–13. Good wrote most of the medical and scientific articles, with some on philological subjects. 14. ‘A Physiological System of Nosology,’ 1817. 15. ‘The Study of Medicine,’ 4 vols. 1822, 2nd edit. 1825; two editions were afterwards edited by Samuel Cooper (1780–1848) [q. v.], 1832 and 1834. Six American editions of this work had been published up to 1835. 16. ‘The Book of Nature,’ 3 vols. 1826. This reached a third edition in England, and there were several American editions. 17. ‘Thoughts on Select Texts of Scripture,’ 1828. 18. ‘Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms,’ edited by the Rev. J. M. Neale, 1842. 19. ‘The Book of Psalms, a new Translation, with Notes,’ 1854. 20. ‘Thoughts for all Seasons,’ 1860. Good also wrote much in periodicals, besides those mentioned, contributed largely for some years to Dodsley's ‘New Annual Register,’ and was one of the editors and principal writers of ‘The Gallery of Nature and Art,’ 1821 (see Life, pp. 88, 108). He contributed the introduction and notes to Woodfall's edition of ‘Junius,’ 1812. Many of his occasional poems are contained in his ‘Life,’ and several in his ‘Thoughts for all Seasons.’ He left in manuscript, in addition to works that have been published since his death, a new translation of the ‘Book of Proverbs.’

[Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character of John Mason Good, by Olinthus Gregory, 1828; Funeral Sermon, with Notes and Appendix, by C. Jerram, 1827; Gent. Mag. (1827), xcvii. pt. i. 276–8.] 

GOOD, JOSEPH HENRY (1775–1857), architect, was a son of the rector of Sambrook, Shropshire, where he was born on 18 Nov. 1775. He received his professional training from Sir John Soane, to whom he was articled from 1795 to 1799, and early in his career he gained a number of premiums for designs for public buildings. His most noteworthy works for private clients were Apps' Court Park, Surrey, and the mansion of Horndean, Hampshire, and other buildings, designed for Sir William Knighton. In 1814 he was appointed surveyor to the trustees of the Thavies estate, Holborn, and some years later to the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, in which latter capacity he designed and carried out in 1825 the vestry hall, in 1830 the national school, and in 1831 the workhouse, Shoe Lane. He also in 1818 designed