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Name
  
William Goldwin

Role
  
Journalist

Children
  
Mary Shelley


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Died
  
April 7, 1836, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Spouse
  
Mary Wollstonecraft (m. 1797–1797)

Books
  
Political Justice, Things as They Are; or - The A, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindi, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Lives of the Necromancers

Similar People
  
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claire Clairmont, Fanny Imlay

William Goldwin (1682 – 1747 at Bristol) was an English schoolteacher and vicar who left his mark on cricket by creating the sport's earliest known work of literature. Goldwin, whose name is sometimes spelt "Goldwyn", wrote a poem of 95 competent and sometimes graceful lines of Latin hexameters on a rural cricket match. It was called In Certamen Pilae (On a Ball Game) and it was published in his Musae Juveniles in March 1706.

Little is known of Goldwin himself. He attended Eton and then graduated to King's College, Cambridge in 1700. He subsequently became a Master of Bristol Grammar School and was Vicar of St Nicholas' Church in Bristol until his death in 1747.

References

William Goldwin Wikipedia


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