Frederick Goldney

Sir Frederick Hastings Goldney, 3rd Baronet of Beechfield and Bradenstoke Priory (26 May 1845 – 21 February 1940) was the second son of Gabriel Goldney, Conservative MP for Chippenham. The title passed to him on 4 May 1925 on the death of his brother, Gabriel Prior Goldney.[1]

Goldney in Masonic regalia, c. 1915

Career

Goldney was educated at Harrow School[2] and became a landowner and Freemason, rising to become Grand Deacon of England.[2] He also wrote the books "A History of Freemasonry in Wiltshire" (1880)[3] and "Records of Chippenham", privately published in 1889.[4]

He was Mayor of Chippenham in 1874 and 1888, High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1908[2] and also served as a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire and Surrey.[1]

He married Ethel Julia Swayne, of Wilton, Wiltshire on 6 February 1875,[1] and they had five children: Katherine Long Goldney (b. 1878), Mary Delarivière Goldney (b. 1880), Eveline Margaret Hungerford Goldney (b. 1882), Lucy Hulbert Goldney (b. 1889) and Henry Hastings Goldney (b. 1886).[1]

His residences were Beechfield, Corsham, Wiltshire and Prior Place, Camberley, Surrey.[2]

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References
  1. Howard, Joseph Jackson; Frederick Arthur Crisp (1896). Visitation of England and Wales (1997 Reprint). Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc. p. 59. ISBN 0-7884-0622-1. Retrieved 04-12-2009. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. Anonymous (1915). Representative British Freemasons (2003 Reprint). Kessinger Publishing LLC. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-0-7661-3589-5. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  3. A History of Freemasonry in Wiltshire - Google Books. books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
  4. inauthor:"Frederick Hastings Goldney" - Google Books. books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Gabriel Prior Goldney		 Baronet
(of Beechfield and Bradenstoke Abbey)
1925 – 1940		 Succeeded by
Henry Hastings Goldney


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