Charles John Melville Godfrey (24 November 1862 — 28 September 1941) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He was born in

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and died in

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. Having represented

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between 1882 and 1885, Godfrey played for

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in 1885, 1889, 1890 and 1892. Godfrey played in four matches in 1889. The following season saw the inaugural County Championship campaign, in which Godfrey played four games, and achieved his best bowling, a return of five wickets for 22 runs in the match against

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. Having sat out of the 1891 season, he made a single, final first-class appearance in 1892, also against Yorkshire. Godfrey was educated at

Magdalen College School, Oxford Magdalen College School (MCS) is a public school (English independent day school) in Oxford, England, for boys aged seven to eighteen and for girls in the sixth form. It was founded by William Waynflete about 1480 as part of Magdalen College, ...

, and Hertford College, Oxford. Outside cricket, he became a clergyman, and the notice of his death in '' The Times'' in 1941 states that he was lately the vicar of St Michael and All Angels' Church, South Beddington, Surrey.

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1862 births 1941 deaths People from Upper Clapton Cricketers from the London Borough of Hackney English cricketers Oxford University cricketers Sussex cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford 20th-century English Anglican priests {{England-cricket-bio-1860s-stub