COLL P 03
Reference code
COLL P 03
Title
Papers of Provost Goodford, 1862 - 1884
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
Charles Old Goodford (1812-1884) came to Eton in May 1824 as an Oppidan but was elected a King's Scholar in July and entered College in September 1824. In 1830 he was placed on the roll for King's College Cambridge which he entered the following year. He became a fellow there in 1834 (resigning on his marriage in 1844) and returned to Eton as an assistant master in 1835. He became Head Master in 1853, beginning a process of reform. He would have preferred to stay in that post but felt unable to refuse the Crown nomination to the Provostship, which he accepted in 1862. From 1848 he also held the family living of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset.
Date
1839 - 1884
Extent & medium
Letters and papers
Content description
These papers cover his period as assistant master, Head Master and Provost and also include many private letters and a collection of autographs. Of particular interest are the papers relating to cricket matches at Lord's.
Associated material
A small group of letters relating to controversy over cricket at Lord's was purchased by Vice-Provost Macindoe and now forms ED 219. Further letters will be found in papers of the Registrar, the Bursar and the Provost and Fellows. Papers relating to the Public Schools Commission and subsequent reforms should also be consulted (ECR/60/6/3 and ECR/60/7/3). Papers relating to the Racquet Courts, built in 1861, are SCH/HM/CAA/4 and letters on reform at Eton and King's can be found among Provost James' papers at COLL/P6/36. The Eton Officers' Memorial Fund (MISC/EOMF) also contains some of his correspondence.
Finding aids
The main finding aid is a typescript list. Only the major groups of letters are catalogued here
Publication note
DNB
Eton College Chronicle 17 May 1884
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Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- Provost Goodford: Letters to Goodford as an assistant master, COLL P 03 01, (1839 - 1850)
- Provost Goodford: Letters to Provost Goodford as Head Master, COLL P 03 02, (1855 - 1862)
- Provost Goodford: Letters to Provost Goodford, COLL P 03 03, (1862 - 1883)
- Provost Goodford: Miscellaneous letters, COLL P 03 04, (19th century)
- Provost Goodford: Letter from William Johnson regarding invitation, COLL P 03 05, ([1860s])
- Provost Goodford: Papers relating to the management of the College estates, COLL P 03 06, (1860 - 1874)
- Provost Goodford: Miscellaneous papers, COLL P 03 07, (1861 - 1871)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence with Frederick Charsley, Registrar, COLL P 03 08, (1866 - 1876)
- Provost Goodford: Letter to C. Uvedale Price, Receiver, relating to fees for Chalcots estate work, COLL P 03 09, (15 August 1866)
- Provost Goodford: Letters from Frederick Charsley, Registrar, on manorial courts, COLL P 03 10, (1866 - 1871)
- Provost Goodford: Papers relating to proposal to annex Eton to the Borough of Windsor, COLL P 03 11, (1867 - 1868)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence with Henry Sedlmayer of Vienna on manuscripts in College Library, COLL P 03 12, (1868)
- Provost Goodford: Sermon preached by Charles Abraham, Bishop of Wellington, COLL P 03 13, (28 February 1869)
- Provost Goodford: Letters from the Head Master, John James Hornby (1826-1909), COLL P 03 14, (1870 - 1881)
- Provost Goodford: Reports on the School Fund and school finance, COLL P 03 15, (1871 - 1873)
- Provost Goodford: Papers on the position of mathematical masters and the tutorial system, COLL P 03 16, (1871 - 1881)
- Provost Goodford: The Eton Almanack, COLL P 03 17, (Lent 1872)
- Provost Goodford: Papers on alterations in the terms of Eton scholarships at King's College, Cambridge, COLL P 03 18, (1874)
- Provost Goodford: Papers relating to proposed Slough sewage scheme, COLL P 03 19, (1876)
- Provost Goodford: Letters from parents objecting to the proposed sewage works, COLL P 03 20, (1876)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence with Frederick Charsley, Registrar, concerning the proposed sewage works, COLL P 03 21, (1876)
- Provost Goodford: Letters from Richard Okes, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, relating to the Slough sewage scheme, COLL P 03 22, (1876)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence on illegal camping on Romney Island and possible improvements, COLL P 03 23, (1877)
- Provost Goodford: Letters from Montague Hawtrey on the memorial to Edward Hawtrey, Vicar of Burnham, COLL P 03 24, (1877 - 1879)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence with Sir William Augustus Fraser and Henry Woodyer on a memorial to Provost Hawtrey, COLL P 03 25, (1878 - 1882)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence on Postmasterships at Merton College, Oxford, COLL P 03 26, (1879 - 1881)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence on the omission of the Litany from Sunday services, COLL P 03 27, (1880 - 1883)
- Provost Goodford: Light verse in English, COLL P 03 28, (1865 - 1868)
- Provost Goodford: Letters to Gertrude Hannah, COLL P 03 29, (1862 - 1882)
- Provost Goodford: Letters from an album, COLL P 03 30, (1815 - 1868)
- Provost Goodford: Letters to other correspondents, COLL P 03 31, (c.1847 - 1868)
- Provost Goodford: Autographs, COLL P 03 32, (19th century)
- Provost Goodford: Album, COLL P 03 33, (c.1865 - 1868)
- Provost Goodford: Letter from Emily Goodford, COLL P 03 34, ([June 1883])
- Provost Goodford: Newscuttings from The Examiner regarding his appointment as Headmaster, COLL P 03 35, (January 1853)
- Provost Goodford: Account of proposed visit to Windsor by the evangelists Moody and Sanky, and objections to it, COLL P 03 36, ([1875])
- Provost Goodford: Papers on the Eton-Harrow match at Lord's, COLL P 03 37, (1877)
- Provost Goodford: Correspondence on the Harrow match at Lord's, COLL P 03 38, (1853 - 1857)
- Provost Goodford: Miscellaneous correspondence on school affairs, COLL P 03 39, (1856 - 1888)
- Provost Goodford: Letters concerning loan of portraits, COLL P 03 40, (1866 - 1868)