Charles Old Goodford

[1] He was elected a Fellow of King's, but did not long retain his fellowship, as on 28 March 1844 he married Katharine Lucia, third daughter of George Law of Lincoln's Inn.

Soon he succeeded his former tutor, John Wilder, as the housemaster of a large house, in which a number of the resident boys were from his own and the adjacent counties.

He aimed at a very complete reconstruction of the system of teaching; he made discipline a reality, while he abolished many vexatious rules which had needlessly restricted liberty and would have done more but for the veto of the Provost, Dr Hawtrey.

In 1854 he edited P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ, a work which he had printed chiefly to present as a leaving book to his sixth-form boys.

Goodford held the small family living of Chilton-Cantelo from 1848 to his death.