Robert Goodwin (Parliamentarian)
Sir Robert Goodwin (c. 1601 – buried 29 March 1681) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1659.[1] He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
Biography
Goodwin was the son of Edward Goodwin of Horne, Surrey and his wife Susan Wallop, daughter of Richard Wallop of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire. He was the brother of John Goodwin.[2]
In 1626, Goodwin was elected Member of Parliament for East Grinstead. He was re-elected MP for East Grinstead in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[3]
In April 1640, Goodwin was re-elected MP for East Grinstead in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for East Grinstead for the Long Parliament in November 1640.[3] In October 1642 he was sent by the House of Commons with Robert Reynolds to Dublin as commissioner representing the parliament. They were allowed to be present at meetings of the Irish privy council with the connivance of the lords justices, and they tried to make a party for parliament among officers and officials. However they returned to England in 1643.[4]
He remained in the Rump Parliament after Pride's Purge. He was knighted in Dublin on 3 May 1658.[5] In 1659 he was re-elected MP for East Grinstead in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[3] In 1659, he was one of five commissioners appointed to govern Ireland.
He died in 1681 and was buried at East Grinstead.[2]
Notes
- His name is spelt Robert Godwin in some sources.
- Davidson & Coates 2010.
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- Firth 1896, p. 71.
- Shaw 1906, p. 224.
References
- Davidson, Alan; Coates, Ben (2010). "Goodwin Robert (c.1601-1681), of Horne, Surr. and East Grinstead, Suss.". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. Cambridge University Press.
- Firth, Charles Harding (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 71.
- Shaw, William Arthur (1906). The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. Vol. 2. London: Sherratt and Hughes. p. 224.