Lambert Godfrey was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  between 1654 and 1659.

Godfrey was the eldest son of Thomas Godfrey, of Sellinge, Kent. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford on 4 May 1627, aged 16 and was awarded BA on 19 February 1628. He was incorporated at Cambridge University in 1628 and called to the bar at Gray's Inn

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 in 1636.

In 1654, Godfrey was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Kent

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 in the First Protectorate Parliament

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. He was re-elected MP for Kent in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament

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. In 1659 he was elected MP for New Romney

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 in the Third Protectorate Parliament

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