Family and Education
bap. 14 Jan. 1610,Cornw. RO, FP18/1/1, p. 7. 2nd s. of Sir William Godolphin† (d. 1613) and Thomasine, da. and h. of Thomas Sidney of Wighton, Norf.; bro. of Francis I*.Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 184. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 25 June 1624;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France, Low Countries) inc. academy, Angers, France 1630;Clarendon, Life, i. 52; ‘Les Gentilshommes Éstrangers… à l’Academie d’Équitation d’Angers’, Revue d’Anjou xxvi. 20. embassy, Denmark, c.Apr.-Dec. 1632.Clarendon, Life, 52; Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives, comp. G.M. Bell (Cambridge, 1995), 34. unm. d. 8 Feb. 1643.E.A. Andriette, Devon and Exeter in the Civil War (Newton Abbot, 1971), 80; Oxford DNB.
Offices Held
Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 26 Feb. 1635–d.
Military: soldier, tp. of Sir Ralph Hopton*, royal army, c.Aug. 1639.
Local: ?commr. array (roy.), Cornw. c.Oct. 1642.
: of Godolphin, Cornw., Breage and Wighton, Norf.
Likenesses
Likenesses: stipple engraving, R. Clamp, 1793.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
GODOLPHIN, Sidney (1610-43), of Godolphin, Breage, Cornw. and Wighton, Norf.
Will
23 June 1642, pr. 11 Mar. 1644, 29 Jan. 1647.PROB10/641/70; PROB11/199/170.
Estates
inherited lands in Norf. centred on Wighton, inc. Hindringham, Warham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Wighton Mill and Crabbs Castle; also leasehold lands in Scilly Isles.PROB11/122/629.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
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