# Edmund Goodwin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edmund_Goodwin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edmund_Goodwin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Goodwin > Source revision: 1352693476 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Manx language scholar}} {{distinguish|text=the English physician [Edmund Goodwyn](/source/Edmund_Goodwyn)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Edmund Goodwin | image = | birth_date = 24 August 1844 | birth_place = Peel, Isle of Man | death_date = 3 January 1925 | death_place = Peel, Isle of Man | occupation = Music teacher, Manx language teacher | organisation = [Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh](/source/Yn_%C3%87heshaght_Ghailckagh) | notable_works = First Lessons in Manx }} '''Edmund Evans Greaves Goodwin''' (24 August 1844 – 3 January 1925{{Cite news|date=19 November 1935|title=Edmund Goodwin: Musician, Author, Linguist|work=Mona's Herald|url=https://www.imuseum.im/Olive/APA/IsleofMan/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=MNH%2F1935%2F11%2F19&id=Ar00904&sk=EA2E48D6&viewMode=image|access-date=20 July 2020}}) was a [Manx language](/source/Manx_language) scholar, linguist, and teacher. He is best known for his work ''First Lessons in Manx'' that he wrote to accompany the classes he taught in Peel.{{Cite book|last=Goodwin|first=Edmund|title=First Lessons in Manx|publisher=Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh|year=1997|isbn=1-870029-03-8|edition=Revised|location=Douglas}} == Early life == Goodwin was born on 24 August 1844 at Castle Street, [Peel](/source/Peel%2C_Isle_of_Man) to Englishman George Goodwin and his Manx wife Alice Morrison. In his early childhood, Goodwin contracted an illness that left him unable to walk, and he was an invalid for the rest of his life.{{Cite web|last=Weyde|first=Bernadette|date=27 March 2015|title=Edmund Goodwin|url=http://asmanxasthehills.com/edmund-goodwin-manx-scholar-linguist/|access-date=16 July 2020|website=As Manx as the Hills}} Despite his disability, he was devoted to music and helped to support himself by teaching singing and piano to the music students of Peel and the surrounding areas. One of his best known students was [Sophie Morrison](/source/Sophia_Morrison), the [Manx cultural activist](/source/Culture_of_the_Isle_of_Man), [folklore](/source/folklore) collector and author. Under Goodwin's tuition, she received honours from [Trinity College of Music](/source/Trinity_Laban_Conservatoire_of_Music_and_Dance), Morrison was the first person on the island to pass a music college examination.Kenyon, J. Stowell; Maddrell, Breesha and Quilliam, Leslie (2006) 'Sophia Morrison' in Kelly, Dollin, ed. ''New Manx Worthies'', Douglas, Manx National Heritage. Even as a youth, Goodwin was noted for his aptitude for learning languages:
At the age of twelve I picked up my first knowledge of [German](/source/German_language) and [French](/source/French_language) from old books which had belonged to my father. My first inducement to learn Latin and Italian was to be able to understand the words of Mozart’s Masses and Italian opera ''libretti''.
Throughout his life Goodwin would go on to have "good working knowledge" of sixteen languages and was able to read in several more.{{Cite news|date=9 January 1925|title=Death of a Manx Scholar|work=Isle of Man Examiner|url=https://www.imuseum.im/Olive/APA/IsleofMan/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=IME%2F1925%2F01%2F09&id=Ar01019&sk=3A2BD0B9&viewMode=image|access-date=20 July 2020}} == Anglo-Manx dialect == Goodwin was interested in the [dialect of English](/source/Manx_English) spoken on the [Isle of Man](/source/Isle_of_Man), that was heavily influenced by the Manx language. He contributed to the writing of ''A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect'' by collaborating with [A.W. Moore](/source/Arthur_William_Moore) and Sophia Morrison. His contribution consisted primarily in relation to [phonology](/source/phonology) and the "putting the phonetic sounds to the words".{{Cite book|last1=Moore|first1=A.W.|url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/intro.htm|title=A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect|last2=Sophia|first2=Morrison|last3=Goodwin|first3=Edmund|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1924|chapter=Introduction}} He also listed the words alphabetically, added some of his own suggestions, and prepared the work for the press. The book was published in 1924 after Moore's death in 1909 and Morrison's in 1917. == Manx language == Following the decline of Manx as a community language on the Isle of Man during the 19th century, interest in the language was renewed, most notably among educated men in the town of Peel, where it was still common to hear Manx spoken by the [fishermen](/source/Fisherman). Goodwin began learning Manx in the autumn of 1893 and although his illness confined him to his bed for much of his life, he nevertheless studied Manx grammar and idiom in great detail with the help of "dictionary and Scriptures".{{Cite book|last=Clague|first=Dr John|title=Cooinaghtyn Manninagh: Manx Reminiscences|publisher=Chiollagh Books|year=2005|isbn=1-898613-18-4|location=Onchan|pages=v}} Goodwin began teaching Manx in Peel, where the earliest iterations of ''First Lessons in Manx'' "for blackboard use" were written. Along with several other prominent members of the [Manx language revival](/source/Manx_language) such as [J. J. Kneen](/source/John_Kneen) and [Dr John Clague](/source/John_Clague_(physician)), Goodwin was a founding member of [Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh](/source/Manx_Gaelic_Society) in 1899.{{Cite web|date=3 January 1914|title=The Origin of the Manx Language Society|url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/publshrs/yncg.htm|access-date=2020-07-16|website=A Manx Notebook|publisher=Reprinted from the 'Isle of Man Examiner'}} A. W. Moore, the director of the [Manx Museum](/source/Manx_Museum) and the first president of [Yn Çheshaght Ghailckagh](/source/Yn_%C3%87heshaght_Ghailckagh), was not concerned only with the preservation and promotion of the Manx language, but also with all things related to [Manx culture](/source/Manx_culture):
Though called the Manx Language Society, it should, I think, by no means confine its energies to the promotion of an interest in the language, but extend them to the study of [Manx history](/source/Manx_history), the collection of [Manx music](/source/Manx_music), ballads, carols, [folklore](/source/Manx_folklore), proverbs, place-names, including the old field names which are rapidly dying out in a word, to the preservation of everything that IS distinctively Manx, and, above all, to the cultivation of a national spirit.
In 1901 his ''First Lessons in Manx'' under the Manx name ''Lessoonyn ayns Çhengey ny Mayrey Ellan Vannin'' ("Lessons in the mother tongue of the Isle of Man") was published to help the small but growing community of learners of the Manx language. The book was serialised in Manx newspaper ''Mona's Herald'' and is still in use by Manx students on the Isle of Man today.{{Cite news|date=29 January 1935|title=The Herald's Manx Lesson|work=Mona's Herald|url=https://www.imuseum.im/Olive/APA/IsleofMan/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=MNH%2F1935%2F01%2F29&id=Ar00412&sk=8D0318A3&viewMode=image|access-date=20 July 2020}} == Published works == * 1901 - ''Lessoonyn ayns Çhengey ny Mayrey Ellan Vannin'' * 1924 - ''A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect'' (with Sophia Morrison and A.W. Moore) == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodwin, Edmund}} Category:Manx language activists Category:Manx nationalists Category:19th-century Manx writers Category:Manx educators Category:1925 deaths Category:1844 births Category:19th-century British educators Category:People from Peel, Isle of Man Category:Manx people of British descent Category:Manx-speaking people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edmund Goodwin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Goodwin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Goodwin?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.