Henry Godfrey
English clergyman and academic
About Henry Godfrey
Lived 1781 – 1832 (aged 50–51).
Henry Godfrey (1781 – 16 October 1832) was an English clergyman and academic, who served as President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1820–1832.
Henry Godfrey was the son of Henry Godfrey, a grocer of Newgate Street, London. He was admitted to St Paul's School, London in 1793, aged 12, and went to Queens' College, Cambridge with a St Paul's exhibition in 1798, graduating B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. 1813, D.D. 1822 (per lit. reg.).
He was ordained deacon in June 1802 and priest in December 1803, and was elected a Fellow of Queens' College in 1803.
Godfrey served as vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1822, and remained president of Queens' College until his death. He died on 16 October 1832, at the President's Lodge at Queens' College, He was succeeded as president by Joshua King.
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English clergyman and academic
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Henry Godfrey was born in 1781.
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Henry Godfrey died in 1832.
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