William Goldwin

{{Short description|English poet, schoolteacher, and vicar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} '''William Goldwin''' (c.1682 – 1747 at Bristol) was an English schoolteacher and vicar who left his mark on cricket by creating the sport's earliest known work of literature.<ref>Birley, p. 15.</ref> Goldwin, whose name is sometimes spelt "Goldwyn", wrote a poem of 95 competent and sometimes graceful lines of Latin hexameters on a rural cricket match.<ref>Altham, pp. 24–27.</ref> It was called ''In Certamen Pilae'' (On a Ball Game) and it was published in his ''Musae Juveniles'' in March 1706.<ref>Major, pp. 44–45.</ref><ref>Maun, p. 8.</ref>

Little is known of Goldwin himself. He attended Eton and then graduated to King's College, Cambridge in 1700. He subsequently became a Master of Bristol Grammar School and was Vicar of St Nicholas' Church in Bristol until his death in 1747.

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===Bibliography=== * {{cite book |last=Altham |first=H. S. |author-link=Harry Altham |title=A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) |year=1962 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin }} * {{Cite book|last=Birley|first=Derek|author-link=Derek Birley |title=A Social History of English Cricket |year=1999 |publisher=Aurum}} * {{cite book |last=Major |first=John |author-link=John Major |title=More Than A Game |year=2007 |publisher=HarperCollins }} * {{cite book |last=Maun |first=Ian |title=From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750 |year=2009 |publisher=Roger Heavens |isbn=978-1-900592-52-9}}

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