{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = Godfrey Bolles Lee | birth_name = Godfrey Bolles Lee | birth_date = 19 March 1817 | death_date = 29 January 1903 (aged 86) | alma_mater = New College, Oxford | spouse = Emma Nunez Crawford | children = 5 | father = Robert Newton Lee | relatives = {{plainlist| * Elinor Frances Vallentin (great-niece) }} }} '''Godfrey Bolles Lee''' (19 March 1817 – 29 January 1903) was an English amateur cricketer who played from 1837 to 1845. Mainly associated with Oxford University and Hampshire, he made 8 known appearances.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37189/37189.html CricketArchive]. Retrieved on 17 November 2008.</ref>
== Early life == Godfrey Bolles Lee<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deed of Enfranchisement. |url=https://archive-catalogue.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/records/D-CDN/A/2/109 |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=archive-catalogue.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk |language=en-gb}}</ref> was born on 19 March 1817. He was the son of Robert Newton Lee of Coldrey [House], a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of Hampshire.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=DFB |url=https://www.falklandsbiographies.org/biographies/bertrand_william |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=www.falklandsbiographies.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Coldrey {{!}} Hampshire Garden Trust Research |url=http://research.hgt.org.uk/item/coldrey/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630033656/http://research.hgt.org.uk/item/coldrey/ |archive-date=30 June 2023 |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=research.hgt.org.uk |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ghcaraibe - Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe |url=https://listes.u-picardie.fr/wws/d_read/ghcaraibe/Généalogies%20&%20arch.%20familiales/Bertrand%20-%20La%20Dominique%20XVIIIe%20XIXe%20-%20Historique.pdf |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=listes.u-picardie.fr |page=2 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DFB |url=https://falklandsbiographies.org/biographies/466 |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=falklandsbiographies.org}}</ref>
== Career == Lee spent most of his life at Winchester College, where he was educated. He was a tutor at Winchester from his graduation from New College, Oxford, in 1839 through to 1860, then bursar at New College for a year. He was a fellow of New College 1835–61.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Alumni_Oxoniensis_(1715-1886)_volume_3.djvu/38 | title = Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 | page = 831 | publisher = Wikisource | access-date = 17 March 2013 }}</ref> He then returned to Winchester as Warden from 1861 until his death in 1903.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kirby |first1=Thomas Frederick |title=Winchester scholars. A list of the wardens, fellows, and scholars of Saint Mary college of Winchester, near Winchester, commonly called Winchester college |date=1888 |publisher=H. Frowde |location=London |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008910522}}</ref> He was ordained as a Church of England priest in 1846.<ref name="obit">{{cite news| title = Obituaries| newspaper = The Times |issue = 36992 | page = 8 | location = London | date = 31 January 1903 }}</ref>
== Personal life == Lee was married to Emma Nunez Crawford, together they had 5 children:<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-03 |title=(500321) Godfrey Bolles Lee |url=https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/_500321_Godfrey_Bolles_Lee/21487794 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=figshare |language=en}}</ref>
# Arthur Crawford Lee # Agnes Harriet Lee # Edith F. Lee # Georgiana Emma Mary Lee # Helen Margaret Lee
Lee took his nephew William Wickham Bertrand under his care during Bertrand's education in England. Bertrand was the father of Elinor Frances Vallentin.<ref name=":1" />
Lee died on 29 January 1903.
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