▶Date of birth: 15 July 1812         Place of birth:  Yeovil, Somerset

▶Father: John Goodford JP, of Chilton-Cantelo, Somerset    Mother: Charlotte fourth daughter of Montague Chomeley, of Easton, Lancashire,

▶Spouse(s): Katherine Lucia, third daughter of George Law, of Lincoln’s Inn Law    Date(s) of marriage:  28 March 1844     Place(s) of marriage: St Giles’s Church, Bloomsbury

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Charles Old Goodford was the second son of John and Charlotte Goodford. He was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, BA 1836, MA 1839, BD and DD 1853; Fellow 1834 until his marriage. He was ordained Deacon (Oxford) in 1843, and Priest (Lincoln) in 1844. In 1844 he also married Katherine Lucia Law, and they had three sons and four daughters.

He served as an Assistant Master at Eton College 1835-53, becoming Headmaster 1853-62, and Provost from 1862 until his death in 1884; in 1854 he published his edition of Terence’s Comedies. He did much to modernise Eton, but was restrained in some aspects by his Provost E. C. Hawtrey; he was “an amiable West Country man with a trace of a West Country accent, and a respected teacher” (ODNB). In 1861 he is listed as a Visitor, with his wife and son Montague, at the house of his father-in-law George Law at Cotswold Lodge, Pittville Circus.  For most of his time at Eton he was also Rector of Chilton-Cantelo 1848-84.

Goodford died at the Master's Lodge at Eton College in 1884, at the age of seventy-one.

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▶Date of death: 9 May 1884     Place of death: The Lodge, Eton College

▶Date of burial: 14 May 1884        Place of burial: Eton Cemetery

▶Notes:  See ODNB      ID: 9766

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson