Frederick Godber, 1st Baron Godber (6 November 1888 – 10 April 1976), was a British petroleum executive.
Godber was Chairman and Managing Director of Shell. 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.
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