After passing through Eton he was admitted into King's College, Cambridge, in 1620, proceeded M.A.
On 18 October 1648 he was appointed fellow of Eton by the parliamentarians in the place of John Cleaver, who had been ejected.
He left three sons, George, Thomas, and Christopher, and a daughter, Jane.
Goad continued the catalogues of the members of the foundation of Eton College from those of Thomas Hatcher and John Scott to 1646, of which Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood made use, and which William Cole transcribed (cf.
He has Latin elegiacs 'in felicem Natalem illustrissimi Principis Ducis Eboracensis' at pp.