| The Lord Godber of Willington | |
| Order: | Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| Term Start: | 5 November 1972 |
| Term End: | 4 March 1974 |
| Primeminister: | Edward Heath |
| Predecessor: | James Prior |
| Successor: | Fred Peart |
| Order1: | Minister of State for Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 19 June 1970 |
| Term End1: | 9 April 1972 |
| Primeminister1: | Edward Heath |
| Predecessor1: | The Lord Shepherd |
| Successor1: | The Baroness Tweedsmuir |
| Order2: | Minister of Labour |
| Term Start2: | 21 October 1963 |
| Term End2: | 16 October 1964 |
| Primeminister2: | Alec Douglas-Home |
| Predecessor2: | John Hare |
| Successor2: | Ray Gunter |
| Order3: | Secretary of State for War |
| Term Start3: | 27 June 1963 |
| Term End3: | 21 October 1963 |
| Primeminister3: | Harold Macmillan |
| Predecessor3: | John Profumo |
| Successor3: | James Ramsden |
| Office4: | Member of Parliament for Grantham |
| Term Start4: | 25 October 1951 |
| Term End4: | 7 April 1979 |
| Predecessor4: | Eric Smith |
| Successor4: | Douglas Hogg |
| Birth Date: | 17 March 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Bedford, England |
| Death Place: | Bedford, England |
| Children: | 2 |
Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington, (17 March 1914 – 25 August 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1951 to 1979 and held ministerial posts in the governments of Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, and Edward Heath.
Godber was born in Bedford.[1] He was educated at Bedford School, between 1922 and 1931, and became a nurseryman. He became chairman of the county glasshouse section of the National Farmers Union and of the publicity and parliamentary committee. He was a member of the Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board.
Godber was a Bedfordshire County Councillor from 1946 until 1952.[2] He was elected Member of Parliament for Grantham in 1951, a seat he held until 1979. He served under Harold Macmillan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1957 to 1960, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1961, as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1961 to 1963 and as Secretary of State for War in 1963, under Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Minister of Labour from 1963 to 1964 and under Edward Heath as Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1970 to 1972 and as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1972 to 1974. Godber was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1963 and in 1979 he was made a life peer as Baron Godber of Willington, of Willington in the County of Bedfordshire.
In 1936, Godber married Miriam Sanders in Bedford. They had two sons (including one born in 1938 and the other in 1944). Godber died in Bedford in 1980.[3]
A number of Godber's siblings distinguished themselves in later life: