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The eldest son, by a second marriage, of George Gould, a Bristol tradesman, he was born at Castle Green on 20 September 1818. His father was a Baptist deacon, and he was baptised at Counterslip Chapel on 5 November 1837.
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The eldest son, by a second marriage, of George Gould, a Bristol tradesman, he was born at Castle Green on 20 September 1818. His father was a Baptist deacon, and he was baptised at Counterslip Chapel on 5 November 1837.
After passing through (1826-1832) a severe boarding school, he became clerk to a wine merchant at the end of 1832, and in 1836 was articled to an accountants On the following 24 December he preached his first sermon at Fishponds and became a student of the Bristol Baptist College in September 1838. In 1841 he was chosen pastor of a small Baptist congregation in Lower Abbey Street, Dublin.
He moved in 1846 to South Street Chapel, Exeter.
On 29 July 1849 Gould became pastorate at Saint Mary"s Chapel, Norwich, in succession to William Brock. In 1857 his church was divided on the question of admitting the non-baptised to communion.
A secession followed, and a bill in chancery (May 1858) was filed by a trustee, the Review William Norton of Egham Hill, Surrey.
The master of the rolls gave judgment (28 May 1860) in favour of Gould and the majority of his church, who had advocated open communion.
In 1868 new school-rooms and a lecture-room were required at Saint Mary"son In 1874 Gould was elected on the first school board for Norwich, and was three times re-elected. During the floods of November 1878 he formed a committee of relief.
He was president of the Baptist Union in 1879.
His nonconformity was of an uncompromising type. He was one of the founders in 1844 of the Anti-State Church Association, which was later renamed as the Liberation Society.
Having preached for the last time on 5 February, Gould died of erysipelas on 13 February 1882, and was buried on 16 February at the Rosary Cemetery, Norwich. He lost the sight of his left eye in 1873.
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