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===[[name::Roger]] [[name::GOAD]]  [[date of birth::1538]]-[[date of death::1610]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born at [[place of birth::Horton, Buckinghamshire]].  [[occupation::fellow|Fellow]] of [[education::King's College, Cambridge]] 1558, BA 1560, MA 1563, BTh 1569, DD 1576.  After [[associates::Philip Baker]], the Marian pro-Catholic [[occupation::provost]] of [[education::King's College, Cambridge|King's]] was expelled in 1570, Goad was chosen by the fellowship to succeed him and he was installed as [[occupation::provost]], where he remained until his death.  He served three times as [[occupation::Vice-Chancellor]] (1576-7, 1595-6, 1607-8).  He was drawn into numerous controversies as a senior member of the [[education::King's College, Cambridge|College]], and of the [[education:: University of Cambridge|University]], generally seeking to impose the intellectual and behavioural discipline of moderate Calvinismand the established Church against challenges from Roman Catholicism, and from more radical puritanism.  Towards the end of his time at King's he was said to be increasingly unpopular as a disciplinarian.

====Books====
[[File:GoadRoger1.jpg| thumb | Armorial stamp of Roger Goad (British Armorial Bindings) ]]
One of Goad's first acts as provost was the re-establishment of the [[organisations::King's College, Cambridge|College library]], much depleted since the reformation, by selling church ornaments and vestments and creating a new library room within the chapel.  The size of his personal library is not known, but is likely to have been appreciable for its time; in his will, he left all his [[subject::theology|divinity]] [[bequest::books]] to his second [[beneficiary::son]] [[family::Thomas Goad|Thomas]] (q.v.), who followed him in an academic career, while the rest of his [[bequest::books]] would have formed part of the residue of his [[bequest::estate]] left to [[beneficiary::Katherine Goad|his wife]].  A number of books survive today with his armorial stamp.  Examples: NAL CLE N21, Harvard Houghton fSTC 12459, Maggs 1075/16.

====Characteristic markings==== 
Goad used an armorial binding stamp which is typically found applied in gold and silver.  

====Sources====
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*Wright, Stephen. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/10847 "Goad, Roger (1538–1610), college head."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 
*Cargill Thompson, W. Notes on King's College Library, 1500-1570, ''Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society''. 2 (1954), 38-54.
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