John Goddard (5 December 1682 – 1736) was a British Whig politician who sat in the

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from 1727 to 1736. Goddard was the fourth son of Thomas Goddard, of Nun's Court, Coleman St., London, director of Bank of England from 1694 to 1700, and his wife Elizabeth Shallcross, daughter of Humphrey Shallcross of Digswell, Hertfordshire. He became a merchant trading with Portugal. He married Anne Simondi, widow of a, Swedish consul at Lisbon and sister of Joseph Gulston Goddard, was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for

Tregony Tregony (), sometimes in the past Tregoney, is a village and former civil parishes in England, civil parish, now in the parish of Tregony with Cuby, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies on the River Fal. In the village there is a post o ...

at the

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. He voted with the Administration on the arrears of the civil list in 1729 and on the Hessians in 1730. He was appointed Commissary for settling merchants’ losses with Spain in 1730. He left England for Seville on a government mission in June 1731, receiving an allowance of £1,825 p.a. during his negotiations with the Spanish commissioners. He was concerned that Lord Falmouth was undermining his interest at Tregony during his absence, and in November 1732 he applied for leave to come home. On his return to England, he voted with the Administration in March 1734 against the repeal of the Septennial Act. At the

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he was returned with his son-in-law, Henry Penton, In 1734 he became assistant to the

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. Goddard died 5 July 1736, leaving £20,000 to his wife.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goddard, John 1682 births 1736 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741