For other persons named William Godolphin, see William Godolphin (disambiguation).
Sir William Godolphin was a 16th century English Member of Parliament. He sat several times as Member for Cornwall during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and also served five times as High Sheriff of Cornwall, and was Warden of the Stannaries. He acquired a high military reputation, notably at the Siege of Boulogne, Crew in his Survey of Cornwall saying of him “He demeaned himself very valiantly beyond seas, as appeared by the scars he brought home, no less to the beautifying of his fame, than the disfiguring of his face”. Sir William lived to an advanced age. He married Blanch Langdon and had three daughters, but leaving no male issue his estates passed to his nephew, Francis Godolphin.
References
- Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1844) [1]
- Collins’ Peerage of England (London, 1768) [2]
- ‘The Scilly Islands’, Magna Britannia: volume 3: Cornwall (1814), pp. 330-337. [3]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
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