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3 unusual facts about Samuel Goodenough


Samuel Goodenough

He married on 17 April 1770 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. James Ford, formerly physician to the Middlesex Hospital.

He is honoured in the scientific names of the plant genus Goodenia and the Red-capped Robin (Petroica goodenovii).

In 1797 he was presented to the vicarage of Cropredy by the Bishop of Oxford, in the following year he was advanced to the canonry of St George's Chapel, Windsor, and in 1802 promoted to the deanery of Rochester.



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