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Charles Wycliffe Goodwin

1817–78

Egyptologist and lawyer. Called to the bar, 1848. Contributed to the publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. In 1860 wrote one of the articles in Essays and reviews, to which he was the only lay contributor (see also Williams, Rowland, and Wilson, Henry Bristow). Appointed assistant judge in the supreme court for China and Japan in 1865. Died in Shanghai.

Source

DNB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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