Sarah Goad

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Dame Sarah Jane Frances Goad, DCVO (née Lambert; born 1940) is a British public official.

Goad was born in 1940; her parents were Uvedale Lambert and his wife Melanie.{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham |orig-date=4 January 2021 |title=Of course Tony Blair should be knighted |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/04/course-tony-blair-should-knighted/ |access-date=4 January 2022}} She worked for the publishers Faber and Faber from 1959 until 1970, when she became a partner in Lambert Farmers (she had been a director of Tilburstow Farms Co. for seven years prior to this). She continued as a partner until 1994.[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-17319 "Goad, Dame Sarah (Jane Frances)"], Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 11 June 2019.

In the meantime, Goad became increasingly involved in public life; she was made a magistrate for Surrey in 1974, and was Deputy Chair of the bench's Family Panel from 1992 to 1997. She sat on a range of other local organisations and chaired Southwark Cathedral Council from 2000 to 2008.

In 1997, Goad became Lord Lieutenant of Surrey and in 2012 was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for her service in that office; she retired three years later.