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Sir Francis Godolphin KB MP (25 December 1605 – 22 March 1667), of Godolphin in Cornwall, was an English nobleman, landowner, politician, and Member of Parliament. His chief claim to fame is that he was the dedicatee of Hobbes' Leviathan.
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, PC (3 September 1678 – 17 January 1766), styled Viscount Rialton from 1706 to 1712, was an English courtier and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1712, when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Godolphin.
Biography. Godolphin was born in Westminster, probably because his father was in attendance at Court. Orphaned at the age of seven, he was brought up by his uncle, Sir Francis Godolphin*, who in 1626 introduced him to Parliament as a Member for Helston while he was still a minor.
Godolphin’s trajectory at court and in Parliament in the reign of Anne roughly followed that of his father, appointed lord treasurer by the new queen, and of his father-in-law, captain-general of the Allied forces.
Hace 6 días · She married Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin. She was the eldest daughter and co-heir of the great John (Churchill), Duke of Marlborough (who was buried briefly in a vault in the Abbey's Lady Chapel from 1722 until 1744 when his remains were removed to Blenheim Palace).
Price: £295. Early 18th century mezzotint of The Earl of Godolphin (1678 – 1766). Half length with wig and silk brocade jacket. Facing left and leaning upon a stone ledge. Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, was a British politician, styled Viscount Rialton between 1706 and 1712, and member of the Kit-Kat Club.
Francis Godolphin is the dedicatee of Leviathan. He was a royalist and a Member of Parliament. He was also the brother of Sidney Godolphin, Hobbes ’s personal friend, who died fighting the parliamentarians during the English Civil War in 1643.
