Dame Alice Mary Godman, ( Chaplin; 24 June 1868 – 3 October 1944) was a British charity worker, serving as Deputy President of the

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. She also had an interest in

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and served as County Commissioner for Girl Guides in

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. Godman was the second wife of

Frederick DuCane Godman Frederick DuCane Godman DCL FRS FLS FGS FRGS FES FZS MRI FRHS (15 January 1834 – 19 February 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Un ...

, a noted naturalist, and accompanied him on expeditions. The extinct Lord Howe Pigeon was described by

Gregory Mathews Gregory Macalister Mathews Order of the British Empire, CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. Life He was born in Biamble, New South Wal ...

in 1915, using a painting as a guide. At the time, he named it ''Raperia godmanae'' for Alice Mary Godman. In the

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, Godman was made a

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(DBE) "for services in connection with the War", and thereby granted the

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''. She had two daughters: Eva Mary Godman (1895–1965) and Catherine Edith Godman (1896–1982). Neither married or bore issue.

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* 1868 births 1944 deaths British charity and campaign group workers Red Cross personnel Scouting and Guiding in the United Kingdom Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-bio-stub