William Man Godschall

William Man Godschall (1720–1802) was an English dairy farmer and Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

William Man Godschall, 1791 pastel portrait

Life

He was initially called William Man, taking the surname Godschall in 1752, on his marriage.[2][3] With his wife Sarah's fortune came the manor of Weston, land around the village now named Albury, Surrey, but at the time still called Weston Gomshall. There the couple lived, at Weston House.[4][5]

Godschall was a Fellow of the Royal Society and Society of Antiquaries of London, and a member of the Society of Arts.[6] He had a degree of LL.D.[1]

In 1777 Godschall and Samuel Horsley compiled a catalogue of the papers of Isaac Newton kept at Hurstbourne Park, the family seat of the Earls of Portsmouth.[7] In 1781 a collection of 220 letters of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was given to the University of Oxford by Godschall, through John Douglas.[8]

Works

Godschall published A General Plan of Parochial and Provincial Police in 1787.[9] He was helped with this work by Samuel Glasse.[10] The mid-1780s in England had seen a crime wave, an increase in drunkenness, and other indications of social stress.[11] A proclamation had been issued on 1 June 1787, which was reprinted by Godschall and in a related book by Glasse.[12] The work in particular attacked "the swarm of alehouses that infest all our towns".[13] It proposed the importance of the instruction of the young, emphasised also at this time by Sarah Trimmer, and the removal of children from unsuitable parents, at age "certainly not later than ten".[14]

Family

He was a son of William and Mary (Malcher) Man of Clapham and London, whose daughter Elizabeth married Benjamin Mee and was grandmother to the future prime minister Lord Palmerston.[15]

William Man married the heiress Sarah Godschall, daughter of Nicholas Godschall, and niece of Sir Robert Godschall, Lord Mayor of London.[1] Their surviving son was the Rev. Samuel Man Godschall (1764–1821), who was a college contemporary of Robert Malthus, and married his sister Anne Catherine Lucy Malthus.[2][16] His wife sold Weston Gomshall manor and Weston House in 1822 to Henry Drummond; and died in 1823, leaving her estate to Edward Bray (died 1866), son of Edward Bray who had married Mary Ann Catherine Malthus in 1790.[3][4][17][18][19]

Another son, William John Man Godscall, was a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford and barrister of the Inner Temple; he died unmarried before his father, on 26 December 1798.[20][21][22]

Notes
  1. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Katharine Baetjer (2009). British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575–1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-58839-348-7.
  2. Edward Wedlake Brayley; John Britton (1841). A Topographical History of Surrey. p. 160.
  3. "Godschall Family of Weston House Albury: Records, The National Archives". Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. Malden, H. E., ed. (1911). "The Victoria history of the county of Surrey". Internet Archive. London: Constable & Co. p. 74. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  5. David Hughson (1808). London; being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood: to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation. J. Stratford. p. 342. ISBN 9780749545291.
  6. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 20 (1802), at p. 428. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce JSTOR 41325755
  7. "Introduction to the Newton Manuscripts Catalogue". University of Oxford. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  8. Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon (1872). Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers Preserved in the Bodleian Library: To 1649, ed. by the Rev. O. Ogle and W. H. Bliss. 1872. Clarendon Press. p. vi.
  9. "Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers' Ornaments". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  10. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1890). "Glasse, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  11. M. J. D. Roberts (24 June 2004). Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787–1886. Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–2. ISBN 978-1-139-45421-6.
  12. Joanna Innes (8 October 2009). Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-19-820152-6.
  13. Frederic Richard Lees (1871). The Text-book of Temperance in Relation to Morals, Science, Criticism, and History. Trübner & Company. p. 116.
  14. Kristina Straub (2 January 2009). Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain. JHU Press. pp. 28 and note 45. ISBN 978-0-8018-9511-1.
  15. Edward J. Davies, "The Ancestry of Lord Palmerston", The Genealogist, 22(2008):62-77.
  16. T. R. Malthus; Kantō Gakuen Daigaku (1997). T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56 note 209. ISBN 978-0-521-58138-7.
  17. "Counterpart of agreement by Ann C L Godschall (widow of Rev Samuel Man Godschall) to sell to Henry Drummond for £21,000 the manor of Weston Gomshall, with Weston House and 218a, Weston Farm (248a); Postford Farm (119a); Birmingham Farm (57a); The Running Horse in Albury, 9 cottages (1 in 2 tenements), with many tenants named, and lands, The National Archives". Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  18. "Marriage Settlement of Edward Bray and Mary Ann Catherine Malthus; (1) William Bray of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, esq, and Mary his wife; (2) Edward Bray of the same, gent; (3) Daniel Malthus of Weston, Shere, esq; (4) Mary Ann Catherine Malthus, his daughter; (5) Sydenham Malthus of Manley Bridge, Farnham, and the Rev Samuel Man Godschall of Albury, clerk; High house and other lands, Shere, The National Archives". Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  19. "Bray, Edward (BRY810E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  20. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Godscall, William John Man
  21. The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England). F. Jefferies. 1802. p. 1169.
  22. The European Magazine, and London Review. J. Fielding. 1799. p. 69.
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