an English Wesleyan minister, grandson of Rev. John Goodwin, one of Wesley's preachers, was born at Bilston, Staffordshire, October 31, 1815. He was pious from his youth; entered the ministry in 1836; died in London, April 1, 1878, and was buried at Wrexham, where he had settled as a supernumerary during the previous year. He was a man of sterling intellect and high moral worth; was well read in philosophy, history, and elegant literature; his sermons were clear, elaborate, sententious, forcible. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1878, page 36.