Joseph Godber

Joseph Godber

Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington PC (17 March 1914 – 25 August 1980) was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister.

Godber was educated at Bedford School and became a nurseryman. He became chairman of the county glasshouse section of the National Farmers Union and of the publicity and parliamentary committee. He was a member of the Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board.

Godber served as a Bedfordshire County Councillor. He was elected Member of Parliament for Grantham in 1951.

He served as:
* Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1957-1960
* Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1960-1961
* Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1961-1963
* Secretary of State for War, 1963
* Minister of Labour, 1963 –1964
* Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1970-1972
* Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1972–1974.

He became a Privy Counsellor in 1963. In 1979, Godber was made a life peer as Baron Godber of Willington, of Willington in the County of Bedfordshire. He died a year later in 1980, aged 66.

References

*Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979


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