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This sepia-toned carte de visite photograph is of Mr Henry Haywood Godwin, a school teacher in Whanganui. The image was taken by Frank R Huff at the American Photographic Rooms on Victoria Avenue, Whanganui. This portrait is of a man with short cropped hair and a long beard, seated with one arm resting on a table and the other holding a walking stick between his legs. It is mounted on an orange backing card.
Henry Haywood Godwin was Headmaster at Wanganui Collegiate in 1865 and his wife served as Matron. Godwin was dismissed from his position by 1879 after reports of bad habits and several complaints being made. John Cameron, another Wanganui settler, wrote of Godwin that "the beast was half the time drunk" (John Cameron letters, vol III, p.33 [1880]). Godwin continued as a teacher and founded his own private school on Bell Street in Whanganui in 1879.
In 1882 he left for Melbourne, Victoria, with the intention of starting a school there. In 1885 he was reported to be editor of a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, and in 1890 was reported as editing another newspaper in Newcastle, New South Wales. Godwin died of cirrhosis of the liver on 9 February 1904 while working as a private tutor at Tooma Station in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
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