 Sidney Godolphin (colonel)

Colonel Sidney Godolphin (1652–1732) of Thames Ditton, Surrey was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for over 40 years (non-continuously) between 1685 and 1737.Godolphin came from a Cornish family and was the only surviving son of John Godolphin, judge of the Admiralty court, of St. Thomas's, near Launceston, Cornwall and St. James's, Clerkenwell.