Susannah Godsal
British, 1772 - 1852
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BiographySusannah Godsal was born in 1772, the eldest surviving child of Anne Webb (1749-1834) and her husband Philip Godsal (1747-1826), a wealthy landowner and coach builder with premises in Long Acre, London. Following the deaths in infancy of three other children, Philip Lake Godsal was born on January 29, 1784, followed by Maria on January 1, 1785. Relatively little is known of the lives of the two sisters. Susannah married Nathaniel Saxon, Horatio Nelson's attorney, on September 18, 1802. She had no children, and died on May 28, 1852. Maria Godsal married William Haslewood (d. 1849) on March 8, 1803, and died in 1879. Philip Lake Godsal was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, receiving a B.A. in 1805 and M.A. in 1808. He served as lieutenant in the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners (now the Corps of Gentlemen at Arms) from 1806-14, was made a freeman of Tewkesbury on October 8, 1812, and High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1849. On January 16, 1814 he married the Hon. Grace Ann Best Draper (1797-1868), eldest daughter of William Draper, 1st Lord Wynford. In 1843 Philip Lake Godsal purchased the estate of Iscoyd Park, Flintshire, for £12,500. He died there on January 15, 1858.