Godfrey Vigne

Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1 September 1801 – 12 July 1863) was an English amateur cricketer and traveller.

He spent the next seven years travelling in north west India and Central Asia.

[3] In the light of his ease in obtaining a permit to travel to Kashmir, despite his unofficial status, the timing and his repeated extensive journeys north of Kashmir, reaching as far as Skardu and the Saltoro Pass, it has been suggested that he may have been a spy involved in the Great Game.

[1] In 1841, the urial, a wild sheep living in Central and Southern Asia, was given the scientific name Ovis vignei in his honour.

[7][8] This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1800s is a stub.

Self-portrait of Godfrey Thomas Vigne, sportsman and artist, in Baltistan in the late 1830's
Portrait of Richard Wood , British consul in Damascus, drawn by Vigne in 1844