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Goddard, Baron (UK, 1944 - 1971)

Creation: let.pat. 19 Jul 1944

Extinct: 29 May 1971

Family name: Goddard

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Arms:

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Rayner [Goddard], Baron Goddard, GCB PC

son of Charles Goddard, solicitor, of 3 South Square, Grays' Inn, London, by his wife Janet Gertrude Jobson, dau. of John Jobson, of Derby

born

10 Apr 1877

mar.

31 May 1906 Mary Linda Schuster (b. 12 Oct 1883; d. 16 May 1928), 3rd dau. of Sir Felix Otto Schuster, 1st Bt., by his wife Meta Weber, dau. of Sir Hermann Weber

children

1. Hon Pamela Mary Violet Goddard (b. 28 Dec 1907), mar. 24 Mar 1934 Dr James Burdett Maurice, of Isbury House, Marlborough, co. Wiltshire, son of Col George Thelwall Kindersley Maurice CMG CBE, of Marlborough, co. Wiltshire, and has issue

2. Hon Janet Margaret Goddard (b. 26 Oct 1909), mar. 12 May 1934 Rt Hon Sir Eric Sachs MBE, Lord Justice of Appeal, son of Edwin O Sachs, of 5 Ulster Terrace, Regent's Park, London, and has issue

3. Hon Ruth Evelyn Goddard (b. 28 Jul 1912), mar. 6 Feb 1937 Archibald Sands Clayton, of Hazel Hill, Bracknell, co. Berkshire, only son of John Hunt Clayton, of Sunningdale, co. Berkshire, and has issue

died

29 May 1971

created

19 Jul 1944 for life Baron Goddard, of Aldbourne in the County of Wiltshire

note

barrister, Gray's Inn, 1899, KC 1923, Bencher, Inner Temple 1929; Recorder of Poole 1917-24, of Bath 1924-28 and of Plymouth 1928-32; a Judge of the High Court, King's Bench Division 1932-38; knighted 1932; a Lord Justice of Appeal 1938-44; Privy Councillor 1938; a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1944-71; Lord Chief Justice of England 1946-58; sat as Surrogate to the Earl Marshal the Duke of Norfolk in the first sitting of the Court of Chivalry for several centuries in the 1954 case of Manchester Corporation v Manchester Palace of Varieties; GCB 1958

First written 15 Sep 2004

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