UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 17 March 1914

Died: 25 August 1980

Baron Godber of Willington - 12 July 1979

Member of Privy Council - 1963

husband of Miriam Sanders

Bedford School

Assistant Government Whip	1955	1957
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture	1957	1960
Under Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs	1960	1961
Minister of State, Foreign Office	1961	June 1963
Secretary of State for War	27 June 1963	21 October 1963
Minister of Labour	October 1963	October 1964
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	June 1970	1972
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	1972	March 1974

25 October 1951	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,712	43.47
26 May 1955	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,188	50.79
8 October 1959	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,482	56.84
15 October 1964	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,634	55.93
31 March 1966	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,748	47.74
18 June 1970	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	33,070	58.67
28 February 1974	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	31,910	50.44
10 October 1974	Grantham	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,738	47.66