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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