Godfrey Bolles Lee (19 March 1817 – 29 January 1903) was an English amateur

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er who played

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from 1837 to 1845. Mainly associated with

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and

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, he made 8 known appearances in first-class matches. Lee spent most of his life at

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, where he was educated. He was a tutor at Winchester from his graduation from

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, in 1839 through to 1860, then bursar at New College for a year. He was a fellow of New College 1835–61. He then returned to Winchester as Warden from 1861 until his death in 1903. He was

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as a Church of England priest in 1846.

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1817 births 1903 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Oxford University cricketers Hampshire cricketers Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests Teachers at Winchester College Wardens of Winchester College {{England-cricket-bio-1810s-stub