Frederick Godber, 1st Baron Godber

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The Lord Godber of Mayfield
Born(1888-11-06)6 November 1888
Died10 April 1976(1976-04-10) (aged 87)
Burial placeSt Dunstan's Church, Mayfield
Spouse
Violet Ethel Beatrice Lovesay
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(m. 1914)​

Frederick Godber, 1st Baron Godber of Mayfield (6 November 1888 – 10 April 1976) was a British petroleum executive.[1]

Early life

Godber was the third son, and youngest of five children, of carpenter Edward Godber, of Camberwell, formerly of Derby, and Marion Louise, daughter of George Peach.[2][3]

Career

Godber was an executive in the petroleum industry, becoming Chairman and Managing Director of

knighted 7 July 1942.[6] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Godber, of Mayfield in the County of Sussex, in 1956.[7] He had already been made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1948.[8]

Personal life

Lord Godber's grave at St Dunstan's Church, Mayfield

In 1914, he married Violet Ethel Beatrice, daughter of George Lovesy, of

RAFVR, DFC, son of Archibald Scott Debenham, of Lightoaks, Ingatestone, Essex, and had four children.[3]
Lord Godber died in April 1976, aged 87, when the barony became extinct. He was buried at St Dunstan Churchyard, Mayfield, Sussex.

References

  1. ^ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Frederick Godber". Oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 July 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b c Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 103rd edition, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1963, p. 11
  4. ^ The History of the British Petroleum Company, Ronald W. Ferrier, J. H. Bamberg, Cambridge University Press, 1982, p. 599
  5. ^ The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979, Forrest Capie, Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 319
  6. ^ "No. 35632". The London Gazette. 14 July 1942. p. 3101.
  7. ^ "No. 40692". The London Gazette. 24 January 1956. p. 499.
  8. ^ "No. 38192". The London Gazette. 30 January 1948. p. 741.
  9. ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain, 1960, p. 100
  10. ^ "4972 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE" (PDF). Thegazette.co.uk. 12 November 1943. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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Business positions
Preceded by
Walter Horace Samuel
 Chairman of
Shell Transport and Trading

1946–1961 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation
Baron Godber

1956–1976 		Extinct
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