Timothy Goodwin, Godwin or Godwyn (1670?–1729) was an English churchman, who became

archbishop of Cashel The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the tit ...

Life

He was born at

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...

, probably about 1670. He began his education at the nonconformist academy of Samuel Cradock, at Geesings,

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. Here he was a classmate in philosophy with Edmund Calamy, who entered in 1686 at the age of fifteen. Goodwin and Calamy were about the same age, and read Greek together in private. At this time he was intended for the medical profession; on leaving Geesings he went to London and lodged with Edward Hulse, M.D., in Aldermanbury. Turning his thoughts to divinity he entered

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, where he graduated M.A. on 22 January 1697. He was domestic chaplain to

Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC (15 July 16601 February 1718) was an English politician who was part of the Immortal Seven group that invited Prince William III of Orange to depose King James II of England during the Glorious ...

, who took him abroad and gave him the rectory of

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, Oxfordshire. On 1 August 1704, he was collated to the

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. He accompanied Shrewsbury to Ireland in October 1713, on his appointment as

Lord High Steward of Ireland The Lord High Steward of Ireland is a hereditary Great Officer of State in the United Kingdom, sometimes known as the Hereditary Great Seneschal. The Earls of Shrewsbury (Earls of Waterford in the Peerage of Ireland) have held the office since th ...

. On 16 January 1714, he was made

bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh The Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Kilmore and Ardagh in the Province of Armagh. The Diocese of Kilmore composed most of County Cavan and parts of counties Leitrim, Fermanagh, Meath and Sligo ...

. He rebuilt the episcopal residence at Kilmore, and made other improvements, two-thirds of his outlay being reimbursed by his successor,

Josiah Hort Josiah Hort (c. 1674 – 14 December 1751), was an English clergyman of the Church of Ireland who ended his career as archbishop of Tuam. Born in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, son of John Hort, and brought up as a Nonconformist, Hort went to sch ...

, who also had begun life as a non-conformist. On 3 June 1727 Goodwin was translated to the archbishopric of Cashel, in succession to William Nicholson. Godwin is specifically thanked by

Bernard de Montfaucon Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of works ...

in his preface to his edition of the works of

John Chrysostom John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of a ...

for his good offices in contacting John Potter, the future archbishop of Canterbury, for the establishment of certain texts of that author. He was less responsive to moves for a rapprochement with Gallican circles in France.See Grès-Gayer, ''Paris-Cantorbéry 1717–1720''. He died in Dublin on 13 December 1729. He published two separate sermons in 1716, and a third in 1724. He married Anne Anderson, daughter and co-heiress of Charles Anderson of

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. Her sister Charlotte married

Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn PC (I) SL (c. 1688 ? – 3 December 1756) was an Anglo-Irish politician and judge and member of the Peerage of Ireland, best known for serving as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Biography Early life Jocelyn w ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodwin, Timothy 1670 births 1729 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Oxford Bishops of Kilmore and Ardagh Anglican archbishops of Cashel Members of the Irish House of Lords