GODALMING 



3575 



GODFREY 



Godalming . Mun. bor. and 

 market town of Surrey, England. 

 It stands on the Wey ; 35 m. S.W. 

 of London on the 

 L.&S.W.R. The 

 chief buildings 

 are the church of 

 SS. Peter a n d 

 Paul, the town 

 hall, and market 

 house ; the church 

 contains some 

 Godahning arms Norman work . 



Near is a memorial to J. G. Phillips, 

 the chief wireless operator on the 

 Titanic ; the town has also a 

 technical and an art school. It has 

 still some half-timbered houses of 

 the 17th century. The borough 

 council owns the waterworks and 

 maintains an isolation hospital and 

 a cemetery. The chief industries 

 are tanning and paper-making ; 

 there is a trade in malt and corn. 

 Stone is quarried in the neighbour- 

 hood. The place, which is men- 

 tioned in Domesday Book, became 

 a borough in 1574. It was long a 

 centre of the cloth manufacture. 

 Pop. 8,850. 



Near Godalming is the Char- 

 terhouse School. This was founded 

 in London by Thomas Sutton, 

 in 1611, his foundation being for 

 a hospital and a free grammar 

 school. In 1872 the school was 

 removed to its present site, com- 

 modious buildings, in the Gothic 

 style, being erected thereon. It 

 consists of an under school and 

 an upper school, the latter being 

 divided into classical and modern 

 sides. The buildings include 

 chapel, laboratories, library, etc. 

 There are nine houses with accom- 

 modation for about 600 boys, and 

 schelarships to the school and the 

 universities. See Charterhouse. 



Godavari. River of S. India. 

 900 m. in length, it flows across the 

 Deccan, from the W. Ghats to the 

 Bay of Bengal. One of the most 

 sacred rivers of India, it is a great 

 resort of pilgrims. The chief tri- 

 butaries are the Pranhita and the 

 Manj era. 



Godavari. District of India, on 

 the N.E. coast of the Madras Pre- 

 sidency. It takes its name from the 

 great river Godavari. Of the total 

 area only one-third is cultivated ; 

 of the cultivated area more than 

 half is devoted to rice. The ex- 

 ports mainly consist of agricul- 

 tural produce, while the imports 

 include cotton twist and yarn, and 

 piece goods. The capitaHs Coean- 

 ada. Its area is 7,972 sq. m. ^ 



Goderich. Town and port of 

 Ontario, Canada. The county town 

 of Huron co., it stands where the 

 river Maitland falls into Lake 

 Huron, 135 m. W. of Toronto. It 

 is a terminus of the C.P. Rly., and 



Godalming, Surrey, buildings of Onarternouse Scnool, 

 which was moved from London in 1872 



a station on the G.T. Rly. There is 

 a fair harbour, from which steam- 

 ers ply between various ports on the 

 Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence. 

 It has a number of manufactures, 

 including salt works, some fishing, 

 and is served by electric tramways. 

 The plan of the town resembles a 

 spider's web, and its buildings in- 

 clude churches, schools, grain ele- 

 vators, etc. It is visited by 

 pleasure seekers. Pop. 5,000. 



Godetia (Oenothera). Section of 

 the evening primrose genus. Of the 

 natural order Onagraceae, they are 

 natives of the warm parts of Amer- 

 ica. Evening primroses all have 

 yellow flowers, and do not open in 

 sunshine ; but the godetias have 

 white, rosy, or purple flowers which 

 do. They are annual herbs. ' 



Godfather. Sponsor for an in- 

 fant presented for baptism, re- 

 quired as an assurance to the 

 Church that the child will be 

 brought up in the faith in which it 

 is baptized. His duty is to answer 

 the interrogatories put to him at 

 the font, and afterwards to see that 

 the child is instructed according 

 to the promises made in his name 

 and in due time brought to the 

 bishop for confirmation. 



The custom derives from the 

 primitive church, when guarantors 

 of the character of persons brought 

 for baptism were an obviously neces- 

 sary precaution. Parents were 

 commonly the sponsors, as being 

 the natural and proper guardians, 

 and the 29th Canon, of 1604, 

 forbidding their admission to the 

 office, was only intended to provide 

 additional security for the religious 

 training of the infant. In the 

 Anglican Church, three sponsors 

 are required, two of them of the 

 same sex as the child; in the Ro- 

 man Catholic Church one suffices, 

 but two are usually required. God- 

 parents were formerly called Gos- 

 sips, from God and sib, kindred, i.e. 

 relations in God. Tertullian calls 

 them sponsores, S. Augustine fide- 

 jussore-i, i.e. sureties. 8ee Baptism. 



Godfrey (c. 

 1061-1100). Count 

 of Bouillon and 

 crusading leader. 

 The son of Eustace, 

 count of Boulogne, 

 he was made count 

 of Bouillon and 

 later duke of part 

 of Lorraine by his 

 master, the em- 

 peror Henry IV. 

 En 1096 he offered 

 himself for service 

 as a crusader and 

 was one of the 

 leaders of the 

 host that marched 

 across Europe to 

 Constantinople to the Holy Land. 

 In 1099 he had an honourable part 

 in the successful siege of Jerusalem, 

 and he was chosen its king, but re- 

 fused the title, although he under- 

 took the duties of ruler. He re- 

 mained there, beating off attacks, 

 especially when at Ascalon in 1099 

 he crushed the Saracens, and to 

 some extent enlarging his authority 

 until his death in July, 1100. 



Godfrey's fame became legend- 

 ary in the medieval romances; 

 he was the hero of two notable 

 French chansons de geste, and of 

 an early legend which has close 

 resemblances to that of Lohen- 

 grin (q.v.). 



Godfrey, CHARLES (1790-1863). 

 British musical conductor. Born 

 at Kingston-on -Thames, Nov. 22, 

 1790, Godfrey entered the band of 

 the Coldstream Guards as bassoon 

 player, and from 1828-63 was band- 

 master. He founded Jullien's 

 Journal, the first English publica- 

 tion devoted to military music, 

 was appointed musician in ordin- 

 ary to the king, 1831, and died 

 Dec. 12, 1863. , ... jaMJt ,,M IIJ)IJ1Mll y IMLJ 

 Several of his 

 sons and 

 grandsons fol- 

 lowed the same 

 calling. T h e 

 eldest son. 

 Daniel, or more 

 commonly 

 Dan, 1831- 

 1903, was 

 bandmaster of 

 the Grenadier 

 Guards, 1856-96, and then had a 

 band of his own. He died June 30, 



1903. Another son, Adolphus 

 Frederick, 1837-82, succeeded his 

 father as bandmaster of the Cold- 

 stream Guards for 17 years. 



Charles, 1839-1919, the third 

 son, was bandmaster of the Scots 

 Fusilier Guards and then of the 

 Royal Horse Guards from 1859- 



1904, and professor of military 

 music at the Royal College of Music 

 and the Guildhall School of Musiro. 



Dan Godfrey, 

 British bandmaster 



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