Charles Goldie

Background

He was born in Paris, France and died in Street Ives, then in Huntingdonshire.

Career

Some sources give the year of his birth as 1825. He was priest in charge at High Toynton, Lincolnshire in 1851 and then from 1852 to 1866 he had the same position at Street Thomas"s Church, Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire. From 1866 to his death he was vicar of Street Ives.

Goldie"s tenure at Street Ives was controversial and his "ritualistic proceedings" alienated many of the congregation.

He also attempted to impose church rates and was consistently and successfully opposed on that and on his candidates for the post of churchwarden in "stormy" parish meetings that attracted hundreds of people. Goldie"s first-class cricket career was accidental.

In the 1846 University Match between Cambridge University and Oxford University, held at Oxford, the Cambridge batsman John Walker did not appear for the match. The Cambridge team batted one man short in the first innings, but Goldie was co-opted to bat at Number 11 in the second innings, and scored one run.

Achievements

• Goldie married Harriet Nicol, the daughter of a Bengal Army colonel, in 1848. Among their children was John Goldie, who won fame in rowing at Cambridge and at Henley and after whom the Goldie second string Cambridge University rowing team is named.