Frederic William Goadby

GOADBY, Frederic William. b. Leicester, 10 August 1845; d. Watford, Hertfordshire, 15 October 1879. The son of a Baptist minister, Goadby was educated at Regent’s Park College, then in London. He is described as ‘F.W. Goadby, MA’ in The Sunday School Hymnary (1905); he graduated at London University in 1868. He became a Baptist minister at Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire (1868-76), and at Watford, Hertfordshire (1876-79), before his early death. In SSH there was a hymn dated 1880, ‘A crowd fills the court of the temple’, based on Matthew 21: 15 (retained in Sunday School Praise, 1958), set to a tune called GOADBY, by Charles Edward Hale, dated 1887. The other hymn for which he is known is ‘O...