Family and Education
b. c. 1590, o.s. of Richard Goddard of Southampton by Elizabeth, da. of Ambrose Dauntsey of Potterne, Wilts. educ. I. Temple 1607, called 1616. m. (1) 25 July 1615, Mary, da. of Edward Nicholas of All Cannings, Wilts., 3s. 2da., 7 other ch.; (2) c.1641, Hester, da. of Edward Richards of Yaverland, I.o.W., wid. of John Nevey of Southampton, and Robert Mason of Lincoln’s Inn and Winchester, s.p. suc. fa. 1596.Wilts. Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. cv), 69, 144; PCC Adm. Acts (Index Lib. lxxxi), 54; Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 176; Hants Mar. Lic. 1607-40, p. 61; C8/147/41; Cal. Comm. Comp. 1044; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxiv. 78.
Offices Held
Bencher, I. Temple 1633, reader 1635, treasurer 1659 – 61; steward, New Forest by 1639 – 46, May 1660 – d.; freeman, Portsmouth 1639, Winchester Sept. 1660; j.p. Hants and Wilts. 1640 – 46, Hants July 1660 – d.; commr. for assessment, Hants Aug. 1660 – d.; recorder, Winchester 1661 – d.; commr. for corporations, Hants 1662 – 63, loyal and indigent officers 1662.
Lt.-col. of horse (royalist) 1643–4.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: the Inner Temple and Etchilhampton, Wilts. and Winchester, Hants.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
GODDARD, Richard (c.1590-1666)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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