Hector Jelf
English cricketer
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Hector Gordon Jelf CBE (6 May 1917 – 11 December 1997) was an English first-class cricketer and British colonial official in Africa.
St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex,
England
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| Full name | Hector Gordon Jelf | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 May 1917 Putney, Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 December 1997 (aged 80) St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1938 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 May 2020 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Sir Arthur Selbourne Jelf,[1] he was born at Putney in May 1917. He was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Exeter College, Oxford.[2] While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1938, making two appearances against Yorkshire and a combined Minor Counties team.[3] Playing as a wicket-keeper, he scored 48 runs, took five catches and made a single stumping.[4]
After graduating from Oxford, he served in the Colonial Service in British West Africa. In the Second World War he was an emergency commission as a second lieutenant in the African Colonial Force in the first month of the war.[5] Jelf resumed his duties in the Colonial Service after the war, holding a number of positions within the Nigerian colonial government, eventually rising to become the permanent secretary to the ministry of education from 1959–64.[2] He was made a CBE in the 1962 New Year Honours.[6] Jelf died in England at St Leonards-on-Sea in December 1997.