Wednesday 9 November 2016

1378 Daniel Goddard




Constituency : Ipswich  1895 - 1918

Daniel  took  one  of  the  Ipswich  seats  from  the  Tories.

Daniel  was  the  son  of  a  magistrate. He  was  privately  educated  and    became  a  civil  engineer. He  was   a  director  of  several  companies  including  the  Ipswich  Gas  Light  Company.. He  was  an  alderman  in  the  town  and  mayor  in  1891-2. He  unsuccessfully  contested  the  seat  in  1892. He  was  a  radical  Congregationalist.

Daniel  was  knighted  in  1907.

Daniel  stepped  down  in  1918.

Daniel  was  a  philanthropist  who  built  the  Social  Settlement  in  Ipswich.

He  died  in  1922  aged  72.

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