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[[File:Goldney1972.jpg|thumb|right|Caricature of Goldney by [[Melchiorre Delfico (caricaturist)|'Delfico']] in [[Vanity Fair (British magazine 1868-1914)|"Vanity Fair" magazine]], 1872]]
'''Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet''' (25 July 1813 – 8 May 1900)<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-gabriel-goldney/index.html
|title=Sir Gabriel Goldney|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |access-date=5 March 2009}}</ref> was a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1865 to 1885. He was created a [[baronet]] in May 1880.

==Ancestry and early life==
The [[Goldney family]], from [[Bristol]], became clothiers in [[Chippenham]] in the sixteenth century and were long afterwards associated with Wiltshire, and particularly the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/54|title=Wiltshire Community History Get Community Information|publisher=[[Wiltshire Council]] |access-date=9 March 2009}}</ref> An ancestor, Henry Goldney, had also been a member of parliament for Chippenham and was in 1553 appointed the first "[[Bailiff#Great Britain|Bayliff]]" of Chippenham.<ref name=freemason>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DtvwH_Dfl8C|title=Representative British Freemasons|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2003|isbn=978-0-7661-3589-5|last=Anonymous}}</ref> A 17th-century ancestor, also named Gabriel, left bequests in his [[Will (law)|will]] to provide "greatcoats for six poor inhabitants".<ref name=freemason/>

Goldney was born on 25 July and baptised at Chippenham on 3 December 1813.<ref name=early>{{cite web|url=http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-goldney20743+2-5-0-1-0|title=Sir Gabriel GOLDNEY 1813-1900|publisher=genealogy.links.org}}</ref> His father was Harry Goldney (1774–1852) and his mother Elizabeth (née Reade, c. 1789–1863).<ref name=family>{{cite web|url=http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-goldney1846+2-5-0-1-0|title=Harry GOLDNEY 1774-1852|publisher=genealogy.links.org}}</ref> He was educated at [[Christ's Hospital]] (of which he later became a [[School governor|governor]]) from 1820 to 1828.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chassociation.org/oldblues/blueyellowpages.php?mode=LetterSearch&letter=All|title=Christ's Hospital Old Blues Association|access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref>

Goldney married Mary Anne Alexander in [[Corsham]] on 16 September 1839,<ref name=early/> and they had four children: Mary Catherine Goldney (14 October 1841 – 4 August 1854), [[Sir Gabriel Prior Goldney, 2nd Baronet|Gabriel Prior Goldney]] (b. 4 August 1843), [[Sir Frederick Hastings Goldney, 3rd Baronet|Frederick Hastings Goldney]] (b. 26 May 1845), and [[Sir John Tankerville Goldney|John Tankerville Goldney]] (b. 15 June 1846).<ref name=visit>{{cite book|title= Visitation of England and Wales (1997 Reprint)|last=Howard|first=Joseph Jackson|author2=Frederick Arthur Crisp|year=1896|publisher=Heritage Books, Inc.|location= Bowie, MD|isbn= 0-7884-0622-1|page= 59 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wytAbogHxFYC|access-date=4 December 2009}}</ref>

==Career==
Goldney became a landowner, financier and banker. In 1854 he bought [[Sheldon Manor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/index2.php?option=com_parksandgardens&task=site&id=2957&preview=1&Itemid=293|title=Parks and Gardens UK|publisher=Parks and Gardens data services Ltd, Archaeology Department, [[University of York]]|access-date=5 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215112743/http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/index2.php?option=com_parksandgardens&task=site&id=2957&preview=1&Itemid=293|archive-date=15 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and in 1856, land in [[Hilmarton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66539|title=Parishes–Hilmarton|work=[[British History Online]]|publisher=[[Institute of Historical Research]] and Parliamentary History Trust|access-date=5 March 2009}}</ref> His investments extended outside [[Wiltshire]] to [[Camberley]] in Surrey, as in 1860 he advanced money to develop a [[Sericulture|silk farm]] at Heatherside; however, the venture failed, Goldney [[foreclose]]d on his investment and took possession of the land, part of which later became Prior Park, Camberley, the residence of his two elder sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHCOL_7030|title=Surrey History: Exploring Surrey's Past – Archive Record|publisher=www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk|access-date=7 December 2009}}</ref>

In 1863 he bought land at [[Bradenstoke Abbey]] from [[Frederick Methuen, 2nd Baron Methuen]],<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66542|title=Parishes–Lyneham|work=[[British History Online]]|publisher=[[Institute of Historical Research]] and Parliamentary History Trust|access-date=5 March 2009}}</ref> and the following year, bought [[Stanley Abbey]] from [[John Bayntun Starkey]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayntun-history.com/JohnBayntunStarky1834.htm|title=Bayntun History: John Bayntun Starky 1834|publisher=bayntun-history.com|access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref> By 1888 he also owned land at Monks Park, [[Corsham]], which he leased for [[quarry]]ing.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/Names/Lankesheer/sumsionquarry.htm|title=SUMSION Quarry transactions mentions Lankesheer|publisher=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com |access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref>

He was first elected to parliament as Conservative Member of Parliament for [[Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chippenham]], Wiltshire, England on 11 July 1865 and made his [[maiden speech]] on 20 April 1866.<ref name = hansard>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-gabriel-goldney/index.html|title=Sir Gabriel Goldney profile|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|access-date=5 March 2009}}</ref> By this time, he was a Director of the North Wilts Bank.<ref name=brother>{{cite web|url=http://www.chippenham.gov.uk/museum--heritage-centre/characters/rowland-brotherhood.aspx|title=Chippenham Town Council – Museum & Heritage Centre – Characters – Rowland Brotherhood|publisher=www.chippenham.gov.uk|access-date=14 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114044033/http://chippenham.gov.uk/museum--heritage-centre/characters/rowland-brotherhood.aspx|archive-date=14 November 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In this capacity, he was persuaded by railway engineer [[Roland Brotherhood]] to relax the bank's conditions on his [[overdraft]] in return for help in getting Goldney re-elected in the forthcoming election; Goldney, having been re-elected, then advised the bank that the conditions could be relaxed. However, shortly after this, in 1869, the bank changed its mind, and Brotherhood's enterprise failed;<ref name=brother/> Brotherhood blamed Goldney for this.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/24/Brotherhood.htm|title=A Centenary Note – R. Brotherhood|work=Industrial Railway Record|publisher=[[Industrial Railway Society]]|access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref> Goldney was appointed a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of Wiltshire on 22 February 1869.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23483|page=2006|date=30 March 1869}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24829|page=2358|date=2 April 1880}}</ref>

The position of Bailiff of Chippenham passed down to Goldney; he was also a [[Freemason]], holding the office of [[Grand Warden of England]].<ref name=freemason/> He was created Baronet Goldney of Beechfield in the parish of Corsham, and [[Bradenstoke Abbey]] in the parish of [[Lyneham, Wiltshire|Lyneham]] on 30 April 1880.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24840 |date=30 April 1880 |page=2786}}</ref>

He died at Eaton Place, [[Belgravia]], London on 8 May 1900,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/visitationofengl08howa/visitationofengl08howa_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Visitation of England and Wales"|year=1893 |access-date=4 December 2009}}</ref> and the baronetcy passed to his first son, [[Sir Gabriel Prior Goldney, 2nd Baronet|Gabriel Prior Goldney]].

==Legacy==
Goldney is commemorated in stained-glass windows of Chippenham parish church,<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.norvic.co.uk/bugle/bugle.nsf/31e457072ddc27dd802569a5006608c2/1bb65261b8420c5280256f42007bf5fb!OpenDocument |title= St Mary's in St Andrews|work=Bradenstoke Bugle|access-date=6 March 2009 |last= |first= }}</ref> The [[Foundling Hospital]], London<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65560
|title=The Foundling Hospital |work= [[British History Online]] |publisher=[[Institute of Historical Research]] and Parliamentary History Trust
|access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref> and in the name of Goldney Avenue, Chippenham.<ref>{{coord|51.4602|-2.1246|display=inline|region:GB_scale:5000}}</ref>
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | sir-gabriel-goldney | Sir Gabriel Goldney }}
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/library/collections/specialcollections/archives/#goldney Goldney papers], University of Bristol Library Special Collections

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