Francis Goldsmith

or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds. of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq. Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight, was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School, became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629, was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts, to Greys Inn, where he studied the common Law several years, but other learning more, and wrot.

Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus, or Joseph, a Tragedie. Lond. 1652. oct. Which Trag. was, with annotations, printed then in English. He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father, in verse and prose, with Epitaphs, and also his Catechism into English verse, intit. Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia, &c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention’d. See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers, under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five,1655. was, I presume, buried there, leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine, afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight. His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention’d.