Goulburn, EDWARD MEYBRICK, D.D.

Goulburn, EDWARD MEYBRICK, D.D., son of Edward Goulburn, serjeant-at-law, was born 1818. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1839, and in 1841 was elected a Fellow of Merton. After holding the Oxford incumbency of Holywell, he became head-master of Rugby (1850-58), in succession to Dr Tait. He next became prebendary of St Paul's (1858); chaplain to the Queen, and vicar of St John's, Paddington (1859); and Dean of Norwich (1866), which office he resigned in 1889. In 1872 he led the opposition to Dean Stanley's proposal to make subscription to the Athanasian Creed permissive in the case of ordination. Among his publications are The Philosophy of Grammar (1852), Thoughts on Personal Religion (1862), and The Office of the Holy Communion (1863). He died 3d May 1897. See Life by Berdmore Compton (1899).