Joseph Godber, Baron Godber of Willington

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Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington DL (born March 17, 1914 in Willington , Bedfordshire , † August 25, 1980 ) was a British gardener , trader and politician of the Conservative Party , who was a member of parliament for almost 28 years and several times minister and 1979 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

After attending Bedford School, Godber trained as a gardener and later ran the Smith flower shop in Luton together with Walter James Bailey , which Godber took over on January 31, 1951 after Bailey left. In addition, Godber was involved in the British Farmers Union ( National Farmers Union of England and Wales ) and was chairman of the committees for greenhouses , public relations and parliamentary work there. In addition, he was involved in the marketing company for tomatoes and cucumbers.

In the general election of October 25, 1951 , Godber was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Tories in the constituency of Grantham for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to it for almost 28 years until he renounced the general election on May 3, 1979 on. During his membership in parliament he was first between 1955 and 1957 Assistant Parliamentary Director ( Assistant Government Whip ) of the ruling faction of the Conservative Party in the lower house.

In January 1957 he took over the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan his first government post when he him with Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn Parliamentary the Common Secretary ( Joint Parliamentary Secretary ) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ( Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food ). After completing this activity, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office on October 28, 1960 and held this position until June 27, 1961. On June 27, 1961, Godber became Minister of State in the Foreign Office ( Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ) and was thus one of the closest collaborators of Foreign Minister Alec Douglas-Home until the end of this activity on June 28, 1963 . On May 31, 1963, he was also appointed a member of the Privy Council .

Minister in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home Governments

After John Profumo on 5 June 1963 at the course named after him Profumo affair had resigned, Godber was on 28 June 1963 by Macmillan as his successor to Secretary of War ( Secretary of State for War ). At the same time he was appointed chairman of the Royal Army Council ( Her Majesty's Army Council ). In these functions, however, he was replaced just four months later after Prime Minister Douglas-Home took office on October 21, 1963, by James Ramsden , who had previously been Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for War and Financial Secretary to the War Office ).

Godber himself was instead appointed Minister of Labor ( Minister of Labor ) by Prime Minister Douglas-Home on October 20, 1963 as successor to John Hare and held this post until the end of Prime Minister Douglas-Home's tenure on October 16, 1964 after the election defeat the Conservative Party in the October 15, 1964 general election .

Minister in the Heath Administration and Member of the House of Lords

After the Tories won the general election on June 18, 1970 , Godber was appointed Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth of Nations ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ) by the new Prime Minister Edward Heath , and until the end of this position in 1972 he was alongside Richard Wood , who, as Minister of State, was also Minister for Overseas Development, again one of the closest collaborators of Foreign Minister Douglas-Home.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Heath appointed him Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food on November 5, 1972, and thus the successor to James Prior , who in turn was Lord President of the Council and at the same time leader of the conservative majority faction in the Leader of the House of Commons . He held the post of minister until Heath ended on March 4, 1974 after his party's defeat by the Labor Party in the February 28, 1974 elections .

By a letters patent from 1979, Godber was raised to the nobility after his resignation from the House of Commons under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Godber of Willington , of Willington in the County of Bedfordshire, and belonged to the nobility until his death a year later the House of Lords as a member. Its official launch ( House of Lords ) took place on 18 July 1979 with the support of John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter and Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 39145, HMSO, London, February 9, 1951, p. 744 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43010, HMSO, London, May 31, 1963, p. 4793 ( PDF , accessed January 3, 2014, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43047, HMSO, London, July 5, 1963, p. 5716 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47888, HMSO, London, June 26, 1979, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47907, HMSO, London, July 17, 1979, p. 9009 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  6. ↑ Entry in Hansard (July 18, 1979)
personal data
SURNAME Godber, Joseph, Baron Godber of Willington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godber, Joseph Bradshaw, Baron Godber of Willington (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Willington , Bedfordshire
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1980