Theodore Goulson

, Son of Will. Goulson Rector of Wymoundham in Leicestershire, received his first breath in the County of Northampton, became Probationer Fellow of Merton coll. in 1596. applied his Muse to the study of medicine, after he had been adorn’d with the Majesterial degree; in the practice of which, having been initiated in these parts, lived afterwards at Wymoundham; where, as in the neighbourhood, he became famous in, and much frequented for, his faculty. At length taking the degrees of Physick in this University, an. 1610. was made a Candidate of the Coll. of Physitians at London, and the year after Fellow thereof, and afterwards Censor, being at that time in great esteem for his practice in the metropolitan City. He was an excellent Latinist, and a noted Grecian, but better for Theology, as it was observed by those that knew him. He hath published,

Versio Latina, & Paraphrasis in Aristotelis Rhetoricam. Lond. 1619. 1623. &c. qu.

Versio, variae Lectiones, & annotationes criticae in opuscula varia Galeni. Lond. 1640. qu. published by his singular good friend Tho. Gataker Bac. of Div. of Cambridge, and Rector of Redrith in Surrey, who died 27. July 1654 and was buried in the Church at Redrith, after he had govern’d it 40. years. As for our author Goulson he ended his days in his house within the parish of S. Martin by Ludgate within the City of London, 1632 4. May, in sixteen hundred thirty and two: whereupon his body was buried with solemnity in the Church belonging to that parish. By his will, which I have seen and perused, he bequethed 200 l. to purchase a rent-charge for the maintenance of an Anatomy Lecture in the coll. of Physitians at London, as also several books to Merton coll. Library, besides other donations, which were mostly, if not all, performed by his vertuous and religious Widdow Ellen Goulson; of whom by the way I must let the reader know, that she being possess’d of the impropriate Parsonage of Bardwell in Suffolk, did procure from the King leave to annex the same to the Vicaridge, and to make it presentative: which being so done, she gave them both thus annexed (for she had the donation of the Vicaridge before that time) freely to S. John coll. in Oxon.