Frederick Godber, 1st Baron Godber

Who is Frederick Godber, 1st Baron Godber?

Frederick Godber, Kt., 1st Baron Godber, was a British petroleum executive.

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

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