Godfrey (HOLLIS an American educator)
HOLLIS, an American educator and engineer, born at Lynn, Mass. in 1874. He graduated from Tufts College in 1895 and took p post-graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard. From 1898 to 1905 he engaged in teaching engineering, and from 1906 to 1910 was head of the department of science at the School of Practical Arts, in Boston. He was consulting engineer to the cities of Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and several private corporations, from 1910-1917. In 1913 he was chosen president of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. During the World War he was commissioner of the advisory committee of the Council of National Defense, and was in charge educe of its section of engineering and education. He was a member of many engineering societies. He wrote "The Man Who Ended War" (1908); "Elementary Chemistry" (1909); and "The Health of the City" (1910). He was a frequent contributor to engineering and scientific journals.
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Godkin
EDWIN LAWRENCE, an American journalist and essayist; born in Moyne, Ireland, Oct. 2, 1831. He graduated from Queen's College, and came ueen's College, to the United States in early manhood. After 1865 he was prominent in journalism. In addition to a "History of Hungary," and editorial work on the New York "Nation" and "Evening Post," he produced miscellaneous essays, the most prominent of which appear in "The Problems of Modern Democracy" and "Reflections and Comments"; also "Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy" (1898). He died in 1902.
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Godless Month
in comparative mytholgy, the 10th month of the Japanese year, so called because then the lesser divinities were considered to be absent from their temples, for the purpose of paying the annual homage due to the celestial Dairi.
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Godmer
a British giant, son of Albion, slain by Canutus, one of the companions of Brute. GÖDÖLLÖ (ge-del-le), a market-town of Hungary, 15 miles N. E. of Pest, with a royal castle and park presented by the Hungarians in 1867 to their king king, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Here, April 7, 1849, the Austrian forces were defeated by the Hungarians. Pop. about 6,000.
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Godoy
MANUEL DE (gō-doi'), a Spanish statesman; born in Badajoz, 12. at an Feb. 12, 1767. He went to Madrid early age; in 1787 entered the company of bodyguards; was called to the council of state; in 1792 succeeded Aranda as first minister, and immediately declared war on France. At the peace in 1795 he was made a grandee of Spain of the first class, and received the title of Prince of the Peace. Signing, in opposition to the general desire of the nation, the treaty of St. Ildefonso, an offensive and defensive alliance with France, in 1796, parties and classes in the he found all state his enemies and was forced to resign office in March, 1798. Soon reinstated, he married, from political motives, Donna Maria Thereza de Bourbon, though he was already secretly married to Donna Josefa Tudo. In 1800 he commanded an expedition against Portugal. He attached himself to Napoleon; the insurrection of Aranjuez, in March, 1808, prevented his escape as purposed with the royal family, and on the abdication of Charles he was imprisoned. He was present at Bayonne on the signature of the new abdication, and he accompanied the royal family to Marseilles and Rome. On his wife's death he avowed his marriage with Josefa Tudo; settled at Paris in 1835, and died there Oct. 7, 1851.
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Godwin (Earl of the West Saxons)
Earl of the West Saxons. He was probably son of the South-Saxon Wulfnoth, who was outlawed in 1009, and regained his father's lands by his conduct in the contest with Canute. By 1018 he was an earl, and the year after he married the daughter of Ulf, and soon became Earl of the West Saxons. In 1042 he took the foremost part in raising Edward to the English throne, and was rewarded by the marriage of his daughthe English king. Godwin ter Edith to led the struggle against the worthless king's fondness for foreign favorites, and thus incurred the enmity of the court party. The king heaped insults on Queen Edith, seized her dower, and her money, confined her in the monasand closely tery of Wherwell. Godwin and his sons banished, but they contrived to keep were alive the antipathy of the English to the Norman favorites of Edward, and in the summer of 1052 landed on the S. coast of England. The royal troops, the navy, and vast numbers of the burghers and peasants went over to Godwin; and finally the king was forced to grant his demands, and replace his family in all their offices. Godwin died April 14, 1053.
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Godwin (WILLIAM an English political)
WILLIAM, an English political writer and novelist; born in Wisbeach, England, March 3, 1756. His father (1723-1772) was a dissenting minister. William was educated at Hoxton Presbyterian College; preached as a dissenting minister, 1777-1782. He turned radical, and devoted himself to literature. He married Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797, though he had objections on principle to marriage. He wrote "Inquiry Concerning Political Justice. etc." (1793); "History of the Commonwealth" (1824-1828); the novels, "Caleb Williams" (1794); "St. Leon" (1799); "Mandeville" (1817); etc. He also published histories of Rome, Greece, and England, a "Pantheon," and "Fables" under the pseudonym of Edward Baldwin. He died in London, April 7, 1836. See GODWIN, MARY.
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Godwin-Austen
MOUNT, a peak of the W. Himalayas supposed to be the second highest in the world. Its height is 28,250 feet.
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Godwit
a wading bird, Limosa melanura, and the genus Limosa generally. They undergo a double moult, having red plumage when young, and then, after moulting, black with a base of white; on the wings also is a white spot. The female is larger than the male. The godwit occurs in Europe, also in Africa and India.
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Goemot
or GOEMAGOT (-em'a-got), the giant who dominated GODWIN, PARKE, an American over the W. horn of England, slain by Corineus, one of the companions of Brute. Staphylinidæ. G. olens, which is some-
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Goerius
a genus of beetles, family times called the Devil's coach-horse, is now Ocypus olens.
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Goff
NATHAN, United States senator from West Virginia, born in Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1843. He was educated at Georgetown College and at the University of the City of New York. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, rising to the rank of major. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and in the following year he was elected to the West Virginia House of Representatives. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of the State in 1876. President Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Navy in 1881. He was United States district attorney in the following year, and was a member of Congress from 1883 to 1889. From 1892 to 1911 he was United States circuit judge, and was judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1912-1913. In the latter year he was elected United States senator for the term ending 1919. He died in the latter year.
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