Frederick Goold

Frederick Falkiner Goold (May 1808 – 1877) was a 19th century^[1] Anglican priest^[2] in Ireland.^[3]

Goold was born in County Limerick^[4] on 6 November 1808. He was the youngest son of Thomas Goold, First Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and Master in the Court of Chancery (Ireland) and Elizabeth Nixon. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,^[5] He was appointed Archdeacon of Raphoe^[6] on 13 December 1852;^[7] and Private Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1858.^[8] He died at Bath, Somerset on 29 January 1877.^[9]

He married Caroline Newcomen, one of the many natural children of Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen, and had six children. His son was an MP;^[10] and his son-in-law a bishop.^[11]

• Cotton. Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae, Supplement 1878. Page 111. Internet Archive: [1] [2].
• Edward Walford. "Goold, the Ven. Frederick Falkiner". The County Families of the United Kingdom. Sixth Edition. Robert Hardwicke. Piccadilly, London. 1871. Page 418.
• Bernard Burke. "Goold, The Very Rev. Frederick Falkener". A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. Pall Mall, London. 1858. Volume 1. Page 459.
• "Archdeacon Goold" in "Obituary of Eminent Persons", The Illustrated London News, 10 February 1877, p 142, col 3
• The Irish Church Advocate. 1 March 1877. Pages 54 and 67. Google Books
• "Limerick". Encyclopædia Britannica. Ninth Edition. Volume 14. Page 648 at page 649.
• K Theodore Hoppen. Elections, Politics and Society in Ireland: 1832-1885. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1984. ISBN 9780198226307. Page 136. Google Books.
• James Maher, "On Some Statements of Archdeacon Goold", 5 November 1866, in Patrick Francis Moran (ed). The Letters of Rev. James Maher, D.D., Late P.P. of Carlow-Graigue, on Religious Subjects, with a Memoir. Browne & Nolan. Nassau Street, Dublin. 1877. Letter 46. Pages 442 to 449.
• "The Representation of the University", The Christian Examiner, 3 January 1865, p 9, col 1 at col 2.