Charles Godby
Anglican dean
About Charles Godby
Lived 1851 – 1919 (aged 67–68). Charles Godby was a curate and canon.
Charles John Godby (1851–1919) was the Dean of Melbourne from 1914 until his death.
Godby was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge and ordained in 1876. After a curacy in Newark he emigrated to Australia and was an incumbent in Seymour and Malvern, Victoria and also became a canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in 1894.
He died in the final week of August 1919.
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Anglican dean
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Charles Godby was born in 1851.
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Charles Godby died on 1 August 1919.
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Charles Godby was a curate and canon.
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