# Lewis Godden

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{{short description|British stamp dealer and philatelist}}
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'''Lewis Sidney Frank Godden''' [MBE](/source/Member_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (1877 – 17 March 1954)<ref>''[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011]'', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.]</ref> was a British [stamp dealer](/source/stamp_dealer) and [philatelist](/source/philatelist) who was added to the [Roll of Distinguished Philatelists](/source/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists) in 1946.<ref name=abps>[http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter#G Who Was Who in British Philately], [Association of British Philatelic Societies](/source/Association_of_British_Philatelic_Societies), 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234319/http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Archived here.]</ref>

Godden was in business in The Strand, London, from 1912 and later joined by his son Frank Godden. The firm issued the monthly ''Godden's Gazette'' from 1933.<ref name=abps/>

Lewis Godden organised philatelic section of [British Empire Exhibition](/source/British_Empire_Exhibition) 1924.<ref name=abps/>

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