Ambrose Goddard | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Cricklade |
Term Start: | 4 February 1874 |
Term End: | 5 April 1880 |
Alongside: | Daniel Gooch |
Predecessor: | Daniel Gooch Frederick William Cadogan |
Successor: | Daniel Gooch Nevil Story Maskelyne |
Term Start2: | 30 July 1847 |
Term End2: | 19 November 1868 |
Alongside2: | Daniel Gooch (1865–1868) Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1859–1865) John Neeld (1847–1859) |
Predecessor2: | John Neeld Henry Thomas Howard |
Successor2: | Daniel Gooch Frederick William Cadogan |
Birth Date: | 9 December 1819 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Parents: | Ambrose Goddard Jessy-Dorothea Lethbridge |
Children: | Five |
Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard (9 December 1819 – 15 November 1898) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician.
Goddard was first elected MP for Cricklade in 1847 and held the seat until 1868. In 1874 he regained the seat before stepping down at the next election in 1880.[1]
Goddard was the first son of former Cricklade MP Ambrose Goddard and Jessy-Dorothea Lethbridge, daughter of Somerset MP Thomas Lethbridge.[2]
He married Charlotte Ayshford Sanford, daughter of former Somerset and West Somerset MP Edward Ayshford Sanford and Henrietta Langham, in 1847. Together they had five children:[3]