Sidney Godolphin

Sidney Godolphin is the name of:

  • Sidney Godolphin (colonel) (1652–1732), Member of Parliament for fifty years
  • Sidney Godolphin (poet) (1610–1643), English poet
  • Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (c. 1640–1712), leading British politician, MP for Helston in Cornwall 1665–Feb 1679, Sept 1679–1685
  • Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard (1838–1902), British colonial administrator

Famous quotes containing the words sidney and/or godolphin:

    Who will in fairest book of Nature know
    How virtue may best lodged in beauty be,
    Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
    Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
    There shall he find all vices’ overthrow,
    Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
    Of reason,
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    Lord, when the wise men came from far,
    Led to thy cradle by a star,
    Then did the shepherds too rejoice,
    Instructed by thy angel’s voice.
    Blest were the wise men in their skill,
    And shepherds in their harmless will.
    —Sidney Godolphin (1610–1693)