Frederick Godber, 1st Baron Godber

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

Godber was Chairman and Managing Director of Shell. He was Knighted 7 July 1942.[2] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Godber, of Mayfield in the County of Sussex, in 1956.[3] He had already been made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1948.[4]

Lord Godber died in April 1976, aged 87, when the barony became extinct. He was buried at St Dunstan Churchyard, Mayfield, Sussex.[5]

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Godber
1956–1976
Extinct
Business positions
Preceded by
Walter Horace Samuel
Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading
1946-1961
Succeeded by
Frederick Stephens


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