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 of this work. Chabas speaks enthusiastically of Goodwin's labours in hieratic as having effected ‘a genuine revolution in the science.’ During his residence in the East he worked assiduously at Egyptology, continuing frequently from 1866 to 1876 the contributions to Lepsius and Brugsch's ‘Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache,’ which he had begun before leaving England. Communications from him were utilised and acknowledged by Canon Cook in his disquisition ‘On Egyptian Words in the Pentateuch’ in vol. i. pt. I. of the ‘Speaker's Commentary on the Bible,’ 1871.

After being several years at Shanghai Goodwin was transferred to Yokohama, where he spent three years as acting judge of the supreme court. He retained this position in 1876 when he returned to Shanghai, and he remained there, a visit to England intervening, until his death, after a long illness, in January 1878. The event caused the deepest regret among the British residents at Shanghai and Yokohama. Goodwin had endeared himself to all his friends as a delightful companion, cheerful and unaffected, his great acquirements being unaccompanied by the slightest trace of pedantry or pretension. He was fond of music, of which he had studied the theory, playing on more than one instrument. He is understood to have been for years the musical critic of the ‘Guardian,’ and to have contributed to the ‘Saturday Review.’ He was the author of at least two law books: 1. ‘The Succession Duty Act’ (16 and 17 Vict. cap. 51), with introduction, notes, and an appendix, containing the Legacy Duty Acts 1853. 2. ‘The Practice of Probate and Administration under 20 and 21 Vict. cap. 77, together with the statute and appendix,’ 1858.



GOODWIN, CHRISTOPHER (fl. 1542), poet, was author of ‘The Chaunce of the Dolorous Lover,’ London, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1520, 4to, ‘a lamentable story without pathos,’ writes Warton. A more interesting production is ‘The maydens dreme. Compyled and made by Chrystofer Goodwyn. In the yere of our Lorde, .,’ London, ‘by me Robert Wyer for Richard Bankes.’ The only copy known belonged to Heber. It is in seven-line stanzas; in the concluding stanza the four words ‘Chryst,’ ‘offre,’ ‘good,’ and ‘wyn’ (forming together the author's name) are introduced into different lines enclosed in brackets. Warton describes the second piece as ‘a vision without imagination.’ A young lady is supposed to listen in a dream to ‘a dispute between Amour and Shamefacedness for and against love.’

In 1572 Christopher Goodwin or Goodwyn and John Johnson proposed to Queen Elizabeth's ministers to convert Ipswich into ‘a mart town,’ in order to draw thither the whole trade from Antwerp. Much of the promoters' notes and correspondence with Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Smith, and others is in the Record Office (Cal. State Papers, 1547–80, pp. 447–8); and among Lord Calthorpe's manuscripts is ‘a device’ on the same subject by the same authors (Hist. MSS. Comm. 2nd Rep. p. 40). It is doubtful whether this Christopher Goodwin is identical with the poet, but the identity of name suggests kinship, and, like the poet, the Ipswich projector usually spells his name ‘Goodwyn.’



GOODWIN, FRANCIS (1784–1835), architect, was born 23 May 1784, at King's Lynn, Norfolk, and became a pupil of J. Coxedge of Kensington. He exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1806 an ‘Internal View of St. Nicholas' Chapel, Lynn,’ after which he appears to have devoted himself to the study of his profession, and from 1822 to 1834 exhibited twenty-three drawings made for competition or for his executed works, which were chiefly in the pointed style. In 1821 he built the church at West Bromwich, which was his first completed structure of the kind, and in the same year a chapel of ease at Portsea, Hampshire, a new church at Ashton-under-Lyne, and rebuilt the parish church at Walsall, with the exception of the spire and chancel. He was occupied from 1821 to 1824 with a church at Kidderminster; in 1822, added the steeple to St. Peter's, Manchester; in 1823, the tower and spire to St. Paul's, Birmingham, and completed Trinity Church, Bordesley, Birmingham, a view of which was published in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for 1827. In 1824 he built Holy Trinity Church, Burton-on-Trent; in 1825, St. James's, Oldham, Lancashire; and in 1826, St. Paul's Chapel, Walsall, of which plans and sections were published in Tress's ‘Modern Churches,’ 1841. From 1826 to 1827 he was erecting St. John's, Derby; from 1826 to 1828, St. George's, Hulme, near Manchester; and in 1830 he completed St. Mary's, Bilston. He also rebuilt the old church at