Hector Jelf

Hector Jelf
Personal information
Full name
Hector Gordon Jelf
Born6 May 1917
Putney, Surrey, England
Died11 December 1997(1997-12-11) (aged 80)
St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex,
England
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1938Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 48
Batting average 16.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 35
Catches/stumpings 5/1
Source: Cricinfo, 16 May 2020

Hector Gordon Jelf CBE (6 May 1917 – 11 December 1997) was an English first-class cricketer and British colonial official in Africa.

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.

References

  1. ^ "Gordon Jelf". www.oxfordhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b Debrett, John (1973). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. p. 2747.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Hector Jelf". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Hector Jelf". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ "No. 35294". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 September 1941. p. 5715.
  6. ^ "No. 42555". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1961. p. 44.