Samuel Goodere

Should John and George fail to produce a male heir "of their bodies," then Samuel and his first born son would be next in line to inherit the bulk of the Dineley Estate.

Sir Edward Dineley's grandson John Goodere broke the terms of the 1706 Will by leaving his Estate to his sister Eleanor Foote's son.

Samuel entered the navy in 1705 as a volunteer on board HMS Ipswich, with Captain Kirktowne, and served in a subordinate rank and afterwards as a lieutenant through the War of the Spanish Succession.

[2] In the opinion of John Knox Laughton, it is doubtful whether Goodere served again at sea until November 1733, when he was posted to HMS Antelope for a brief period of two weeks "apparently on some electioneering job" rather than as an active officer.

On Sunday, 18 January 1741, Samuel was on shore and learned that his brother, Sir John, who was on his way to Bath in the hope of curing his ill health, was dining with an attorney in the city named Jarrett Smith.

But, as John was walking towards his lodgings, he was seized by Samuel's orders, carried down to the King's Dock, rowed out to the man o' war Ruby, and confined in a spare cabin.

Goodere told the men on deck to ignore Sir John's cries for help, as he was out of his mind, and would have to be watched to prevent his attempting his own life.

Goodere had apparently intended to put to sea at once, but Smith became suspicious and having had information the previous night that a gentleman resembling his guest had been taken prisoner on board the Ruby, applied to the mayor for an investigation.

The eldest of the twin sons, Edward, who inherited the baronetcy on his father's execution, died a lunatic and unmarried in March 1761 at Clapton, London.

[3] Ralph Bigland, in his manuscript collections in the College of Arms, wrote that Goodere's sons Edward and John succeeded their murdered uncle rather than their father.

Treadway Russell Nash in his History of Worcestershire (volume i, page 972) says that Sir Edward Dineley-Goodere succeeded his grandfather, which is definitely wrong since his uncle was certainly the second baronet.

In the opinion of John Knox Laughton, it is probable "that the baronetcy became extinct in 1741, on the sentence of Samuel Goodere, though the twins may have been allowed the title by courtesy".