Charles Old Goodford, Provost of Eton College mb-artistname Louis de Silvestre View of Portland Place

View of Portland Place

The new Hungerford Market near Charing Cross was built in Italianate style in 1831-1833

An almshouse in Carshalton

A fat man brandishes a knife

Charles Old Goodford, Provost of Eton College mb-artistname Louis de Silvestre View of Portland PlaceCharles Old Goodford, Provost of Eton College, 1878. Goodford became an assistant master at Eton, his former school, in 1835 when still a Cambridge undergraduate. He went on to become headmaster in 1853, and provost in 1862, a position which he held until his death 22 years later. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc.