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* GOODWIN. 37 GOODY BLAKE AND HARBY GILL. His success in imitating personal peculiarities led him to the variety stage, and at Pastor's Theatre, in New York (1875), he became very popular. Later he made a hit in the burlesque of Black-Eijed Susun. He married in 1877 Eliza W'eathersby, an actress, imder whose name his company toured successfully. Most of his work was in lighter comedy, till in 1889-90 he appeared as Woolcott in .1 (lold Mine. The following sum- mer he first played in England. Among his pro- ductions since have l)een: .1 Gilrled Fool; In iliz- zoura ; An American Citizen; Xathayt Hale, his greatest success (produced in Chicago, January 31, 1898) ; and The Coirboj/ and the Lady. In 1898 he married Maxine Elliott (q.v. ), who has shared his recent achievements. His new play, The Altar of Friendship, was veiy popular in 1902- 03. Consult: Strang. Famous Actors of the Day in America (Boston. 1900); McKay and Win- gate, Famous American Actors of To-Day (New York, 1896). GOODWIN, Mbs. N. C. See Elliott, Maxine. GOODWIN, Thomas (1000-80). An Eng- lish divine of the later Puritan period. He was bom at Rollesby. Norfolk, studied at Cambridge, and became a fellow in 1620. In 1625 he was licensed a preacher of the university, and three years later became lecturer of Trinity Church; Cambridge, and was presented the vicarage by the King in 1632. Harassed by the in- terference of his bishop, who was an ad- herent of Laud, he resigned his preferments and left the university in 1634. He then seems to have lived for some time in London as a separatist preacher. In 1639 he withdrew to Holland, and for a few months wa.s pastor of a small congregation of English merchants and refugees at Amheim. Returning to London soon after Land's impeachment by the Long Parlia- ment (1640). he ministered for ten years to an independent congregation in the parish of Saint Dunstan's-in-the-East, and rapidly rose to con- siderable eminence as a preacher. In 1643 he was elected a member of the Westminster As- sembly, and at once identified himself with the Congregational party. He frequently preached by appointment before the House of Commons, and in January, 1650, his talents and learning were rewarded with the presidentship of Magda- len College. Oxford, a post which he held until the Restoration (1060). He rose into high favor with the Protector, and ultimately became some- what prominent among his more intimate ad- visers. From 1660 until his death, February 23, 1680. he lived in London, and devoted himself exclusively to theological study and to the charge of a small congregation. Five volumes of his works were published at London (1682-1704). GOODWIN, WiLLWM Watson (1831-). A distinguished American classical scholar, bom at Concord, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard in 1851, and then continued his studies at the imiversities of Bonn. Berlin, and Giittingen. re- ceiving from the last place the degree of Ph.D. in 1S55. ^ He was tutor at Harvard 1856-60. w^hen he was appointed Eliot professor of Greek. In 1901 he became Flint professor emeritus. He was the first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1882-83), and in 1872 and 1885 was president of the American Philological Association. In 1860 he published the first edition of his Syntax of the Hoods and Tenses of the Greek Verb. This work has con- tributed more than any other to the elucidation of Greek sjTitax in America and England, and has received generous recognition in Germany. It was published in revised and enlarged form in 1890. He has also published a Greek Gram- mar (1870; last ed. 1893) and various other te.xt-books, and has been a contributor to Ameri- can journals and scientific publications. Profes- sor Goodwin lias received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst (1881), Cambridge, Eng. (1883), Co- lumbia (1887), Edinburgh (1890), Harvard (1891), Chicago (1901), Yale (1901); D.C.L., Oxford ( 1890) ; and is also a Knight of the Greek Order of the Saviour. GOODWIN SANDS. Dangerous banks of shifting sands stretching for' a distance of about 10 miles northeast and southwest, off the east coast of Kent, England, at an average distance of from 5 to 12 miles from the shore (ilap: Eng- land, H 5), The sands are divided into two por- tions by a, narrow channel, and at low water many parts are uncovered. When the tide re- cedes the sand becomes finii and safe; but after the ebb the water permeates the mass, rendering the whole pulpy and treacherous, in which condi- tion it shifts to such a. degree as to render charts uncertain from year to year. They have always been dangerous to vessels passing through the Strait of Dover, bound either for the Thames or traversing the North Sea. They serve, however, as a breakwater to form a secure anchorage in the Downs (q.v.) when east or southeast winds are blowing, but become dangerous when the wind blows strongly off shore, at which time ships are apt to drag their anchors and to strand upon the Goodwin breakers, in the shifting sands of which their wrecks are soon entirely swal- lowed up. Many celebrated and terribly fatal wrecks have occurred here, and many gallant rescues by local seamen have been made. Nu- merous buoys, fog-sirens, warning guns, four lightships, and the North and South Foreland lighthouses, now afford a valuable system of warning and protection. These sands are said to have consisted at one time of about 4000 acres of lowland, fenced from the sea by a wall. At the period of the Norman Con- quest these estates were taken from Earl God- win and bestowed upon the Abbey of Saint Au- gustine at Canterbury, the abbot of which allow- ing the sea wall to fall into a dilapidated con- dition, in the year 1100, the sea rushed in and submerged the whole. Near the Goodwin Sands the Dutch won a naval victorv over the English in 1652. GOOD'WOOD. An estate of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, three miles east of Chi- chester. Sussex, England, chiefly noted for the annual race meeting held in July on the course established in the park in 1802. The castle, an eighteenth-century structure, has a fine collec- tion of portraits by old masters; the park is cele- brated for the beauty and variety of its trees, and contains herds of deer. In it is a temple containing a Roman relief of Neptune and Miner- va found at Cliichcstcr. GOODY BLAKE AND HARRY GILL. A poem by Wordsworth, the story of a poor old woman who to make a fire in bitter weather picked up a few sticks from the land of her neighbor, a farmer. When detected by him and