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Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard (9 December 1819 – 15 November 1898) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician.


Political career

Goddard was first elected MP for
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and held the seat until
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he regained the seat before stepping down at the next election in
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Family

Goddard was the first son of former Cricklade MP Ambrose Goddard and Jessy-Dorothea Lethbridge, daughter of
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MP Thomas Lethbridge. He married Charlotte Ayshford Sanford, daughter of former
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and
West Somerset West Somerset was a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in the English county of Somerset from 1974 to 2019. The council covered a largely rural area, with a population of 34,900 in an area of ; it was the List of English dist ...
MP Edward Ayshford Sanford and Henrietta Langham, in 1847. Together they had five children: * Ambrose Ayshford Goddard (1848–1885) * Jessie Henrietta Goddard (1850–1920) * Fitzroy Pleydell Goddard (1852–1927) * Edward Hesketh Goddard (1855–1921) * Charles Frederick Goddard (1863–)


See also

*
Goddard family The Goddard family were a prominent landed gentry, landed family chiefly living in the northern regions of the English counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire and the western part of Berkshire, between the Tudor period and the early 20th century. ...
of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire


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* Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1874–1880 1819 births 1898 deaths
Ambrose Ambrose of Milan (; 4 April 397), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promoting Roman Christianity against Ari ...
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