Sidney Godolphin

Catherine Judd (University of Miami)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

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Born Jan 1610
Died 9 Feb 1643
Activity 1630-1643

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Born in England
Active in England

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On the second anniversary of his wife’s death, April 21, 1868, a grief-stricken Thomas Carlyle left London for a weekend in Hampshire with Thomas Baring, Lord Northbrook. Carlyle recounts in his journal that the only other visitor that weekend at Northbrook’s Stratton Park was the Rev. Sidney Godolphin Osborne, the “famous S.G.O. of the

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”. Carlyle found Osborne odd but fascinating and describes him as “one of the strangest brother mortals I ever met” (Carlyle qtd. in Froude, 1884, p. 1:314). Along with his great height (“a most lean, tall, and perpendicular man”), Carlyle found Osborne’s expressive face (“palpably aristocratic, but full of plebian mobilities, free and easy rapidities”) and “incessant talk” quite out-of-the-ordinary. For Carlyle, Osborne was…

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Citation: Judd, Catherine. "Sidney Godolphin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 April 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1778, accessed 24 November 2024.]