GODDARD, Dr Jonathan (1617/1618-75), of Merton College, Oxford.

Family and Education

bap. 2 Feb. 1617 or 1618,‘Jonathan Goddard’, Oxford DNB. only surv. s. of Henry Goddard (d. 1647) of Chatham and Deptford, Kent, and his w. ?Rose (d. aft. 1646).PROB11/201/558; Al. Ox.; Ath. Ox. iii. 1029. educ. sch. Chatham and London; Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 11 May 1632, ‘aged 15’; ?travelled abroad; Christ’s, Camb. 26 June 1637, ‘aged 21’; BA St Catherine’s, Camb. 1638; MD, Camb. 20 Jan. 1643.Al. Ox.; Ath. Ox. iii. 1029; Al. Cant. unmar. d. 24 Mar. 1675.Ath. Ox. iii. 1030; Munck’s Roll i. 240, 242; St Helen, Bishopsgate, London par. reg.

Offices Held

Medical: member, Coll. of Physicians 22 Dec. 1643; fell. 4 Nov. 1646–d.J. Ward, The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College (1740), 270; Munck’s Roll i. 240.

Irish: trustee, maintenance of Trin. Coll. and free sch. Dublin 8 Mar. 1650.A. and O.

Academic: warden, Merton, Oxf. 9 Dec. 1651–3 July 1660.Reg. Annalium Collegii Mertoniensis 1603–1660 ed. R. Highfield (Oxf. Hist. Soc. n.s. xli), xxxix, 329. Prof. of physic, Gresham Coll. London, 7 Nov. 1655–d.Ward, Professors of Gresham Coll. 270. FRS and cllr. 1663–d.T. Sprat, The Hist. of the Royal Society of London (1667), 137, 432–3; M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows (1982), 160–1.

Local: j.p. Oxon. 5 Mar. 1653–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 252; C193/13/4, f. 77v; C193/13/5, f. 84. Commr. assessment, 24 Nov. 1653;An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O.

Central: cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344a, 344b. Commr. visitation Oxf. Univ. 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O.

: Oxford.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Will

not made.Aubrey, Brief Lives, i. 268.

Estates

from Sep. 1647, interest in state debts due to his father.PROB11/201/558.

Oxford 1644

No

Addresses

Religion