Sir William Godolphin (1547 - October 1589), of Treveneage in Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament. He was the younger son of Thomas Godolphin, Captain (governor) of the Scilly Isles, a member of one of Cornwall's leading families; his older brother, Sir Francis, who took over the governorship of the Scillies from their father, was also an MP and Vice-Warden of the Stannaries. Sir William represented Helston, at that period the Godolphin family borough, in the Parliament of 1586-7. He married Jane Gaverigan on 11 December 1587, only shortly before his death. His son, Francis, was MP for St Ives in the Long Parliament.

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• Burke's Extinct Peerage (London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831) [1]
• Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall (Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1887) [2]
• Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [3]
• Godolphin family tree

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