His men caused an affray in Dover, and Edward ordered Godwin as earl of Kent to punish the town's burgesses, but he took their side and refused.

It takes significant dramatic liberties, projecting that Hereward later took the alias ' Godwin of Ely ' and worked his way to the Head of Emperor Alexius's Byzantine forces ; before heading off on the First Crusade, to become a lead strategist of the Princes ' Crusade and advisor of Bohemond of Taranto.

It took its name from Godwin Fot, a local Saxon landowner recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and from the River Cray that passes through the village.

In 1833 he married the only daughter and heiress of Major General Sir Henry Godwin KCB, and in 1854 he took the additional name of Godwin by Royal licence.

Some sources, including Kurt Busiek, have alleged that Godwin essentially took the story from a story published in EC Comics ' Weird Science # 13, May – June 1952, called " A Weighty Decision ," scripted by Al Feldstein.

* A rebuttal of the claim that Godwin took the story from Feldstein

** Edwin Godwin Reade ( took his seat on 22 January 1864-Appointed to fill vacancy )

" Godwin advocated extreme individualism, proposing that all cooperation in labor be eliminated.

Godwin advocated individualism, proposing that all cooperation in labour be eliminated on the premise that this would be most conducive with the general good.

James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery, William Godwin, a radical liberalism | liberal and utilitarian was one of the first to espouse what became known as individualist anarchism.

With Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other men and women interested in art, literature and politics, Fuseli frequented the home of Joseph Johnson, a publisher and prominent figure in radical British political and intellectual life.

The Congress under Godwin Lewanika became a political force and developed a radical policy.

Politically his sympathies are not clear ; some claim he was a radical, but this is not borne out by known facts ; although he knew William Godwin, the ageing reformed revolutionist, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley ; and John Hunt, co-founder of The Examiner.

When Whistler exhibited his radical Impressionist paintings of Venice, Godwin entirely redecorated the exhibition galleries to complement them.

Godwin used the experiment to demonstrate that management alone can change plant communities-an idea which is almost universally accepted today, but was quite radical in the early 20th century.

Godwin was a utilitarian who believed that all individuals are not of equal value, with some of us " of more worth and importance ' than others depending on our utility in bringing about social good.

The band began performing gigs in 1977 / 78 with a line-up of Steve Lake ( Vocals / Bass ), Steve Burch ( Guitar ) and Jimmy Lacey ( Drums ), adding Nick Godwin ( guitar ) at their second gig-adopting the name ' Zounds ', chosen from a dictionary by Burch.

The cost of the case, together with huge debts from building his residence (" The White House " in Tite Street, Chelsea, designed with E. W. Godwin, 1877 – 8 ), bankrupted him by May 1879, resulting in an auction of his work, collections, and house.

Bass player and vocalist Steve Lake and guitarist Laurence Wood continued to work together for a while as The World Service with original Zounds member Nick Godwin, whilst drummer Josef Porta went on to join the The Mob and later Blyth Power.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Gytha left England after the Norman conquest, together with the wives or widows and families of other prominent Anglo-Saxons, all the Godwin family estates having been confiscated by William.

While all of these arguments are common today in anarchist thought, Lipscomb may have been the first to bring them all together, at least in America and likely preceded only by William Godwin in England and Proudhon in France.

Paul Godwin and his orchestras were enormously popular in Europe at the time: the recent report stated that within the ten-year period ( 1923 – 1933 ) nine millions of his records were sold.

He was to remain an anarchist for the rest of his life, writing several books on the subject, including Anarchism, the anthology The Anarchist Reader ( 1977 ), and biographies of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde and Peter Kropotkin.

Both works were translated into French, and were imitated in several important particulars by Cyrano de Bergerac, from whom ( if not from Godwin directly ) Jonathan Swift obtained valuable hints in writing of Gulliver's voyage to Laputa.

During his writing career, by nature restless, he moved between a succession of homes in the English countryside and the expatriate colonies of pre-war Florence and Paris ; through Bohemian London and prohibition New York, to Palestine and the Arctic Circle, while navigating friendships with writers Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, Havelock Ellis, D. H. Lawrence ; poets Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Ferenc Békássy, the psychologist Helton Godwin Baynes, Geoffrey Keynes, Mabel Dodge Luhan, naturalist Frank Fraser Darling, and — in later life — Owen Barfield and Carl Jung.

Paolo Guidotti ( about 1590 ) already attempted to carry out Da Vinci's theories, ending by falling on a house roof and breaking his thigh bone ; but while Francis Godwin was writing his flying romance The Man in the Moone ", Fausto Veranzio is widely believed to have performed a parachute jumping experiment for real and, therefore, to be the first man to build and test a parachute: according to the story passed on, Veranzio, in 1617, now over sixty-five years old, implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice.

( 1 ) However, Goffe began delivering Latin orations and writing poems in tribute to Sir Thomas Bodley and Queen Anne of Denmark as well as to the dean of Christ Church, William Godwin.

According to sports writer Terry Godwin, writing in 1983, tag rugby was first developed in Gibraltar by the Gibraltar Rugby Union.

In 1793, William Godwin, who has often been cited as the first anarchist, wrote Political Justice, which some consider to be the first expression of anarchism.

For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ).

The first modern author to have published a treatise explicitly advocating the absence of government was William Godwin in An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ); though he did not use the word anarchism, some today regard him as the " founder of philosophical anarchism ".

In 1793, William Godwin, who has often been cited as the first anarchist, wrote Political Justice, which some consider to be the first expression of anarchism.

William Godwin, " the author of the Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ), the first systematic text of libertarian politics, was a Calvinist minister who began by rejecting Christianity, and passed through deism to atheism and then what was later called agnosticism .".

: 1793 – William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Godwin's law ( also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies ) is an argument made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage.

There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical ( by being adopted by Godwin himself ) than others.

William Godwin can be considered an individualist anarchist and philosophical anarchist who was influenced by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, and developed what many consider the first expression of modern anarchist thought.

Godwin opposes the idea of government, but wrote that a minimal state as a present " necessary evil " that would become increasingly irrelevant and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge.

Émile ArmandEuropean individualist anarchism proceeded from the roots laid by William Godwin, Pierre Joseph Proudhon and Max Stirner.

" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.

Godwin, a philosophical anarchist, from a rationalist and utilitarian basis opposed revolutionary action and saw a minimal state as a present " necessary evil " that would become increasingly irrelevant and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge.

Godwin was a gradualist anarchist rather than a revolutionary anarchist ; he differed from most later anarchists in preferring above revolutionary action the gradual and, as it seemed to him, more natural process of discussion among men of good will, by which he hoped truth would eventually triumph through its own power.

Godwin, who was influenced by the English tradition of Dissent and the French philosophy of the Enlightenment, put forward in a developed form the basic anarchist criticisms of the state, of accumulated property, and of the delegation of authority through democratic procedure.

Stephenson at this time would later be described by Mike Godwin as " a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction.

" Little John and Robin Hood " by Frank Godwin

Another goal of studying victim facilitation, as stated by Maurice Godwin, is to aid in investigations.

Whatever Edward's wishes, it was likely that any claim by William would be opposed by Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, a member of the most powerful family in England.

But by 1050, relations between the king and the earl had soured, culminating in a crisis in 1051 that led to Godwin and his family's exile from England.

* July – Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori, gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland, tell each other tales.

* Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover.

The best-known examples of the questionable advice given by the English witenagemot are when on January 5, 1066 it approved the succession to the kingship of Harold Godwinson ( Harold Godwin ) following the death of Edward the Confessor, and 50 years earlier, in 1016, it had approved the splitting of the kingdom between the Saxon Edmund II and the Danish king Canute.

Godwin is reported to have either captured Alfred himself or to have deceived him by pretending to be his ally and then surrendering him to the forces of Harold Harefoot.

Godwin has been portrayed by Torin Thatcher in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ) and by Bill Wallis in an episode of the British educational TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

Alfred was captured by Godwin, Earl of Wessex who turned him over to Harold Harefoot.