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.
[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.
[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.