Godfrey Faussett, D.D., canon of Christ Church, Oxford by his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Wethered of Marlow.
He inherited the tastes of his great-grandfather, Bryan Faussett, the antiquary, and as a boy studied history and heraldry.
He published articles in its journal, Archæologia Cantiana, including "Canterbury till Domesday" (1861), and an account of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery opened by him at Patrixbourne (vol.
He also wrote a memoir of Bryan Faussett, printed in Charles Roach Smith's edition of the Inventorium Sepulchrale.
Faussett succeeded Lambert Larking as editor of the large history of Kent begun by Thomas Streatfeild; but the ill-health from which he suffered from about 1866 till his death prevented his continuing the work.
In spite of this, Faussett, living in his pleasant house in the cathedral precincts, was a man of habitual cheerfulness, and composed hundreds of clever squibs and epigrams in Latin and English.