Sir Godfrey Herbert Ince GCB KBE (25 September 1891[1] – 20 December 1960)[2][3] was a senior British civil servant.
After the war, he served in several different positions, including Chairman of Cable and Wireless and Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour.
[4] Ince served with the Yorkshire Regiment, the East Lancashire Artillery and was attached to the Royal Engineers during the First World War.
[4] Following injury in France, his mathematical skill was used in during his attachment where he carried out a field survey of the Royal Engineers.
He was acquainted with the chair of the secretariat, Ernest Bevin, with whom Ince had met while secretary to Lord Shaw's dock enquiry in 1920.
[4] At the age of 49, Ince was appointed to the newly created post of Director-General of Man Power in June 1941.
[4] In 1956 he served as chairman of a committee appointed by the Postmaster-General looking into allegations of bias in news reporting on the Welsh language service of the BBC.