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William Godwin
William Godwin was born 3 March 1756 in Cambridgeshire, England, and was educated, beginning in 1773, at Hoxton Academy, a liberal Presbyterian college in London. Though he was trained for a career as a dissenting minister, Godwin remained in that profession for less than four years, preaching in Ware, Stowmarket, and Beaconsfield. Over time he became plagued by doubts, first embracing the heresy of Socinianism (Unitarianism), and by 1787 declaring himself a "complete unbeliever."His most famous work, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, appeared in 1793, inspired to some extent by the political turbulence and fundamental restructuring of governmental institutions underway in France. Godwin's belief is that governments are fundamentally inimical to the integrity of the human beings living under their strictures, and he propounds an enlightened anarchism as the key to individual development. The radicalism of the work concerned authorities in the British government, but partly because of its expense it was not deemed threatening enough to warrant prosecution. Godwin did, however, catch the attention of more radical thinkers for whom his work became an essential text. These included the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, also, later, Perc
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WILLIAM GODWIN:
HIS Allies AND CONTEMPORARIES.
CHAPTER I.
EARLY Discernment. 1756—1785.
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Edward William Godwin
British architect
"Edward Godwin" redirects here. For the English actor, see Edward Gordon Craig.
Edward William Godwin (26 May 1833 – 6 October 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic movement in the 1870s, after coming into contact with Japanese culture in the 1862 International Exhibition in London. Godwin's influence can be detected in the later Arts and Crafts movement.
His best known early works include The Guild Hall, Northampton, which was his first notable public commission, and Congleton Town Hall, as well as restorations and neo-Gothic additions to Dromore Castle, Limerick and Castle Ashby.[1]
Biography
[edit]Apprenticed to an engineer in Bristol, where his architectural training was largely self-taught, Godwin moved to London about 1862, and made the acquaintance of the reform Gothic designer William Burges.[2] As an antiquary, he had a particular interest in medieval costume, furniture and architecture.[3]
Godwin was widowed in 1865; during his affair with the r