William Henry Goddard (6 February 1795 – 16 December 1872) was an English merchant who traded in the Gambia in the early 19th century.
[1] Goddard was born in Nunton, Wiltshire, and was a teenager when he first arrived in Gambia.
He married a local woman, Ellen Casteign (or Castaign), and they had two daughters.
From 1819 they lived in the town of Bathurst (now Banjul), where Goddard and another British trader, Charles Grant, had a timber export business.
[2] Goddard was a member of the Legislative Council from 1843, and in 1860 he set up the Gambia Trading Company.