Ambrose Goddard

Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard (9 December 1819 – 15 November 1898) was a British Conservative Party politician. Political career 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. Family Goddard was the first son of former Cricklade MP Ambrose Goddard and Jessy-Dorothea Lethbridge, daughter of Somerset MP Thomas Lethbridge. 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: Ambrose Ayshford Goddard (1848–1885) Jessie Henrietta Goddard (1850–1920) Fitzroy Pleydell Goddard (1852–1927) Edward Hesketh Goddard (1855–1921) Charles Frederick Goddard (1863–)