{i} family name; male first name; town in North Carolina (USA); William Godwin (1756-1836), English author and political philosopher; Godwin Earl of the West Saxons (died 1053), English statesman; Harold Godwin (1022?-1066), king of England (1066) and the son of Godwin earl of the West Saxons
Of or pertaining to William Godwin|William Godwin]] (1756–1836), English writer and political philosopher, an early advocate of utilitarianism and anarchism
born Dec. 19, 1875, New Canton, Va., U.S. died April 3, 1950, Washington, D.C. U.S. historian. Born into a poor family, he supported himself as a coal miner and was unable to enroll in high school until he was
He went on to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In 1915 he founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History to encourage the study of African American history; he also edited the association's Journal of Negro History. In the early 1920s he founded Associated Publishers to bring out books on African American life and culture. Among his works was the college text The Negro in Our History (1922)
born March 3, 1756, Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Eng. died April 7, 1836, London British writer. He became a Presbyterian minister but soon lost his faith. His Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) captivated Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Percy B. Shelley (who was to become his son-in-law), condemning the institution of marriage, among other things. The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) was his masterpiece. He married Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797, but she died soon after the birth of their daughter, Mary (see Mary Shelley), conceived before their marriage