A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



had succeeded Warton in the second mastership and the boarding house 

 attached to it, as a commoner in his house, until in 1771 he was 

 admitted to college. He was a contemporary with Henry Addington, 

 speaker and prime minister, afterwards Viscount Sidmouth, and Thomas 

 Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury, who gave him a prebend there. Goddard 

 had the distinction, like Warton before him, and Moberly and Ridding 

 after him, of having failed to get a vacancy at New College. He was at 

 Merton, but quickly returned to Winchester as commoner tutor. As 

 second master he was the first who, after a long interval, returned to 

 reside in the college, in the old chambers of the masters, which have 

 ever since been the sole possession of the second masters. When he 

 became headmaster he slowly but surely restored the numbers in com- 

 moners. He found forty-one in 1793 ; next year there were fifty-two; 

 in 1796, seventy-five; and they gradually rose to ninety-eight in 1801. 

 In 1804 Dr. Goddard finally completed 'Old Commoners' by acquiring 

 Wickham's or the Sustern Chapel, and connecting it with the rest of the 

 hospital premises as part of a single boarding house, under the immediate 

 control of the headmaster. This caused the numbers to rise to 133, 

 which seems to have been the extreme number which the buildings 

 would properly accommodate, as the numbers ranged from 137 to 132 

 for the next forty years until the building of ' New Commoners.' That 

 the whole body of buildings inextricably mixed up together should thus 

 be brought under one control no doubt contributed to good order. 



We get a very pleasant picture of Dr. Goddard. He had ' a 

 handsome face, with a clear blue eye and a kindly smile. 1 He always 

 dined at two o'clock, before going into afternoon school, and appeared 

 afterwards in full dress, his wig perfectly powdered, his cassock, black 

 silk stockings and the buckles in his shoes all in the trimmest order. 

 But he could not abide foppery on the one hand, or neglect of ceremony 

 on the other, in the instance of his pupils. One of them who presumed 

 to wear silk stockings and to carry an umbrella unheard-of dandyisms 

 in those days greatly aroused his indignation. One day this youth was 

 walking through seventh chamber passage, umbrella in hand, when he 

 was suddenly charged in the rear by the headmaster and his umbrella 

 confiscated.' 



Goddard was a man of a most sensitive honour, and the high 

 standard he maintained, and his kindly relations with his boys and the 

 confidence he reposed in them, set the model to Thomas Arnold, which 

 he transplanted to Rugby. 



Mr. Gale wrote of Dr. Goddard 2 : 



He has told me many a time that he owed the prosperity of the school to the 

 influence of a few boys of very high stamp, and he instanced three of them one day 

 Rolfe, Inglis, Lefevre. ' Sir,' he said, ' one is a Baron of the Exchequer, who will live 

 to be Lord Chancellor, another is Member for the University of Oxford, and the third, 

 Speaker in the House of Commons. Rolfe and Lefevre are Whigs, in spite of all I 

 can say, and yet there never were better boys.' 



1 Wykehamlca, p. 170. 3 Ibid. p. 164. 



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