Mayor 1891 – 1892.
Member of Parliament, Knighted 9th November 1907.
Founder and President of Ipswich Social Settlement.
Member of the Liberal Party.
A Nonconformist – Protestant Dissenter.
Daniel was elected to the Council in 1886 as one of the representatives of the St. Clement’s Ward.
Born: 17th January 1850, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1851 Duke Street, Ipswich.
Daniel was a year old he was living with his parents and sisters.
Ebenezer, 35, a Civil Servant and Manager of the Ipswich Gas Light Company.
Anna, 34.
Ellen, 2.
Lucy, 3 months.
2 female house servants.
1861 Manager’s House – Gas Factory, Duke Street, St. Clement’s, Ipswich.
Daniel was 11 years old he was living with his parents & sisters.
Ebenezer, 45, a Justice of the Peace. Manager & Engineer of Gas Works – employing 3 clerks, 44 men and 5 boys. Ship Owner – employing 38 men & 7 boys. Proprietor in Copper and Tin Mines. Proprietor in Railways. Proprietor in Houses, and Patentee & Manufacturer of Gas Burners & Apparatus.
Anna, 42.
Ellen, 12.
Lucy, 10.
2 female house servants.
1871 Oak Hill, Belstead Road, St. Mary’s Stoke, Ipswich.
Daniel was 21 years old he was living with his parents and sisters.
Ebenezer, 55, a Civil Engineer.
Anna, 52.
Ellen, 22.
Lucy, 20.
2 female house servants.
Gardener’s Cottage – Oak Hill, Belstead Road.
1 gardener and his young family.
Gardener’s Cottage – Oak Hill, Belstead Road.
1 gardenr and his wife.
Coachman’s Cottage – Oak Hill, Belstead Road.
1 coachman.
1881 Holy Wells Road, St. Clement’s, Ipswich.
Daniel was 31 years old, a Gas Engineer. He was married and head of the household.
Elizabeth, 30.
sister-in-law – Ellen Hitchcock, 55, born Bramford, Suffolk.
2 female house servants.
1891 Oak Hill, Belstead Road, St. Mary at Stoke, Ipswich.
Daniel was 41 years old, a retired Gas Engineer. He was married and head of the household.
Elizabeth, 41.
Annie, 8.
1 cook.
1 housemiad.
1 child’s maid.
1 page.
1901 Oak Hill, Belstead Road, St. Mary at Stoke, Ipswich.
Daniel was 51 years old, a retired Civil Engineer. He was married and head of the household.
1 cook.
2 housemaids.
1 serving maid.
1 footman.
In 1901, Elizabeth Goddard was away visiting Daniel’s cousin Lucy at her family home – Brecknock Road, St. Pancras, London.
William Henry Burroughes, 64, a retired Billiard Table Maker, born Strand, London.
Lucy Memoria Burroughes (nee Hollis), 62, born Framlingham, Suffolk.
nephew – Henry Clifford Hollis, 17, an Architect Student, born Bournemouth, Hampshire.
1 cook.
1 parlourmaid.
1 housemaid.
1911 Oak Hill, Oak Lane, St. Mary at Stoke, Ipswich.
Sir Daniel was 61 years old, a Member of Parliament. He was married and head of the household.
Elizabeth, 60.
Annie Standring Smith, 28.
son-in-law – Robert Charles Standring Smith, 31, a Bachelor of Medicine, born Stockwell Green, South West London.
grandson – Charles Goddard Battersby Standring Smith, 3, born Brampton, Oxfordshire.
visitor – Phillippa Pratt Everard, 47, a Campanion, born Stansfield, Suffolk.
1 cook.
2 female domestic servants.
1 lady’s maid.
1 trained nurse.
Founder and President of Ipswich Social Settlement.
FREEDOM OF THE BOROUGH OF IPSWICH
24th March 1920 for service to the the Town
Honorary Freedom or the County Borough of Ipswich has been conferred by the Council under the Honorary Freedom Act 1885, Honorary Freedom of the Said Borough accordingly.
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Image courtesy of Ipswich Borough Council.