William Goode (priest)


William Goode the younger was an English cleric, a leader of the evangelicals of the Church of England and from 1860 the Dean of Ripon.

Life

The son of the Revd William Goode, the elder, he was born on 10 November 1801 and educated at St Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1825 with a first class in classics.
Goode was ordained deacon and priest in 1825, becoming curate to his father's friend, Samuel Crowther, the incumbent of Christ Church, Newgate Street. In 1835 he was appointed rector of St Antholin Watling Street, a post which he held until 1849 when the Archbishop of Canterbury presented him to the rectory of Allhallows the Great, Thames Street. In 1856 the lord chancellor presented him to the rectory of St. Margaret Lothbury, which he held until 1860, when Lord Palmerston advanced him to the deanery of Ripon.
For some years Goode was editor of the Christian Observer. He was Warburtonian lecturer from 1853 to 1857. He died suddenly on 13 August 1868.

Works

He was the author of a large number of tracts, pamphlets, letters, and speeches on the church-rate question, the Gorham case, and the Tractarian movement. His works include: