| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Hector Gordon Jelf |
| Birth Date: | 6 May 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Putney, Surrey, England |
| Death Place: | St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Club1: | Oxford University |
| Year1: | 1938 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 2 |
| Runs1: | 48 |
| Bat Avg1: | 16.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 35 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 5/1 |
| Date: | 16 May |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15674.html Cricinfo |
Hector Gordon Jelf (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. He was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Exeter College, Oxford.[2] While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1938, making two appearances against Yorkshire and a combined Minor Counties team.[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. In the Second World War he was an emergency commission as a second lieutenant in the African Colonial Force in the first month of the war. 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.[2] He was made a CBE in the 1962 New Year Honours. Jelf died in England at St Leonards-on-Sea in December 1997.