christopher_goodman – The Reformation

CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN.

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, H Scott (1915) rev 1917, 1920

vol 5 p 230 St Andrews, 1560

 CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN, born Chester, about 1519, son of William G., merchant, the representative of an old Cheshire family; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; B.A. (4th Feb. 1541), M.A. (13th June 1544); app. senior student of Christ’s Church (in 1547) and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in 1548; B.D. (1551). During the reign of Queen Mary he went into exile at Strasburg, and joined the Reformers at Frankfort, but, disputes having arisen about Church order, he withdrew to Geneva, where he was elected joint pastor with John Knox in Sept. 1555, and assisted him in the preparation of his Book of Common Order and was also employed with Coverdale in translating the Geneva edition of the Scriptures. At the urgent entreaty of Knox he went to Scotland in Sept. 1559, when he acted as escort to Knox’s wife and family. In Nov. he became min. of Ayr; was nominated by the Lords of the Congregation min. here 19th July 1560 was a member of first General Assembly 19th Dec. that year, and of the Assemblies June 1562, June and Dec. 1563, June and Dec. 1564, and June 1565; returned to England in Nov. or Dec. 1565; became chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord-Deputy of Ireland, Jan. 1566; was coll. in 1570 to the Archdeaconry of Richmond and to the rectory of Alford, of which offices he was deprived shortly afterwards for nonconformity. He died at Chester after 4th June 1603 (on which date he was visited by Archbishop Ussher, who in after days used to repeat some of the dying man’s “grave, wise

speeches”) and was buried in St Bride’s Church there.