GODFREY 



3576 



GODLEY 



Godfrey, SIR EDMUND BERRY 

 (1621-78). English politician. 

 Member of a Kentish family and 

 educated at 

 Westminster 

 and Oxford, he 

 became a wood- 

 monger in Lon- 

 don and justice 

 of the peace 

 for Westmin- 

 ster, and was 

 knighted, 1666, 



Sir Edmund Berry tor ^s services 

 Godfrey, during the 



English politician plague. Before 



After Vanderbank him, Sept. 6,. 



1678, Titus Gates first swore the 

 particulars of the notorious Popish 

 'plot," On Oct. 12 Godfrey was 

 missing, and five days later his 

 body was found at Primrose Hill. 



He was almost certainly mur- 

 dered, perhaps at the instigation of 

 Jesuits, but by whom has never 

 been established. Three men were 

 hanged on the evidence of an 

 informer whose perjury was after- 

 wards confessed and established, 

 but investigations have failed to 

 ascertain the facts about Godfrey's 

 death. His name is sometimes 

 erroneously given as Sir Edmund- 

 bury Godfrey. 



Godhra. Town and subdivision 

 of Bombay, India, in the W. part 

 of Panch Mahals dist. The area 

 of the division is 585 sq. m. Godhra 

 town has an important timbertrade. 



Godin, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDR 

 (1817-88). French socialist. Born 

 at Esqueheries, Jan. 26, 1817, he 

 became an employee in the iron- 

 works there. In 1840 he set up in 

 business for himself, and made a 

 considerable fortune. He intro- 

 duced profit-sharing into his busi- 

 ness, which, after it had been 

 transferred to Guise, he turned into 

 a cooperative association. He also 

 erected dwellings, called famili- 

 steres, for the workers, and in other 

 ways showed himself a genuine 

 believer in the socialist ideas he 

 had learned from Fourier. Godin 

 was a member of the National 

 Assembly, 1871-76. He died Jan. 

 15, 1888. He wrote Solutions 

 Sociales and other works on 

 socialism and industrial problems. 

 See Co-Partnership; consult also 

 Twenty-Eight Years of Co-Partner- 

 ship at Guise, A. Williams, 1908. 



Godiva, LADY. Wife of the 

 llth century Leofric of Mercia. 

 According to legend, Leofric made 

 harsh exactions on his people of 

 Coventry; consequently his wife 

 begged for their removal, which he 

 promised to grant if she rode naked 

 through the town. Lady Godiva 

 accepted the terms. The people of 

 Coventry kept close within doors, 

 their windows shuttered, during 



Godiva. Lady Godiva as imperson- 

 ated in the Coventry pageant of 

 Aug. 7, 1907 



the ride; all save a certain tailor, 

 who, peering through a chink, was 

 struck blind, and has ever since 

 been known as Peeping Tom. The 

 legend was commemorated at 

 Coventry fair from 1678-1826 by 

 a Godiva procession that has been 

 revived intermittently in more 

 recent years, and it is the subject 

 of a well-known poem by Tennyson. 

 Godkin, EDWIN LAWRENCE 

 (1831-1902). Irish-American pub- 

 licist. He was born at Moyne, co. 

 Wicklow, Oct. 

 2, 1831, son of 

 a Presbyterian 

 clergyman who 

 was also a jour- 

 nalist. Educated 

 at Armagh, Sil- 

 coates, and 

 Queen's Col- 

 lege, Belfast, he 

 Edwin L. Godkin, studied law at 

 Irish-American Lincoln's Inn, 

 publicist wag sub . editor 



of Cassell's Magazine, and wrote a 

 History of Hungary, 1853. He 

 served as Danubian and Crimean 

 correspondent of The Daily News, 

 in which paper, after he settled in 

 the U.S.A. in 1856, he stoutly 

 defended the cause of the North. 



Godkin's most influential work 

 was in connexion with the editor- 

 ship of two New York papers, The 

 Nation and The Evening Post, 

 1865-99. Despite uncertain health, 

 he did probably more than any other 

 mun to inaugurate civil service 

 reform, promote clean finance, and 

 defeat Tammany. 



In addition to the early work on 

 Hungary, he wrote Reflections and 

 Comments, 1895 ; Problems of 

 Modern Democracy, 1896 ; and 

 Unforeseen Tendencies of Democ- 



racy, 1898. Oxford made him 

 hori. D.C.L. in 1897. He died at 

 Greenway, Devonshire, May 21, 

 1902, and was buried in the old 

 churchyard at Hazelbeach, the 

 inscription on his tombstone being 

 by Viscount Bryce, who delivered 

 the first of the Godkin memorial 

 lectures on citizenship at Harvard, 

 in 1904. See Letters, ed. R. 

 Ogden, 2 vols., 1907. 



Godlee, SIR RICKMAN JOHN 

 (b. 1849). British surgeon. Born 

 April 14, 1849, he was the son of 

 Rickman Godlee, a barrister, and 

 through his mother a grandson of 

 J. J. Lister, F.R.S., and a nephew 

 of Lord Lister. Educated at Uni- 

 versity College, London, of which 

 he was made a fellow, he began 

 a surgical practice. Surgeon at 

 University College Hospital, he was 

 also professor of clinical surgery 

 at University College. His other 

 distinctions included the post of 

 surgeon-in-ordinary to the king. 

 In 1912 he was made a baronet. 

 Godlee wrote a Life of Lord Lister 

 and several books on surgery. 



Godley, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN 

 (b. 1867). British soldier. Born 

 Feb. 4, 1867, the son of a soldier, 

 he was educated at Haileybury and 

 Sandhurst. In 1886 he joined the 

 Dublin Fusiliers, and in 1896 saw 

 active service with mounted in- 

 fantry in S. 

 Africa. Hav- 

 ing passed 

 through the 

 Staff College, 

 he was in S. 

 Africa when 

 the war broke 

 out in 1899, 

 and after as- 

 Sir A. J. Godley, sisting in* the 

 British soldier defence of 

 Russeii Ma f eking, 



took command of a mounted bri- 

 gade. From 1903-5 he was com- 

 mandant of the school of mounted 

 infantry at Aldershot. 



Four years on the general staff 

 at Aldershot followed, and in 1910 

 Godley was sent out to New 

 Zealand as major-general to com- 

 mand the defence forces there. On 

 the outbreak of the Great War he 

 went to Egypt and Gallipoli at 

 the head of a division of Austra- 

 lians and New Zealanders. After 

 an arduous year on the peninsula 

 he went to France, and was put 

 in command of the 22nd corps, 

 which he led in the closing stages 

 of the war. He was in command of 

 the New Zealand Expeditionary 

 Force throughout the war. Mili- 

 tary secretary to the secretary for 

 war, 1920-22, he was commander of 

 the British Rhine army. 1922-24. 

 becoming in the latter year G.O.C. 

 Southern Command. 



