Godfrey Edward Charles Webb (30 June 1914 – October 2003) was a British author, and member of

the Souls The Souls was a small loosely-knit but distinctive elite social and intellectual group in the United Kingdom from 1885 to the turn of the century. Many of the most distinguished British politicians and intellectuals of the time were members. Th ...

. He wrote under the names Norman England, and Charles Godfrey. Webb was born in London in 1914, and educated at

Poole Grammar School Poole Grammar School (commonly abbreviated to PGS) is an 11–18 selective boys grammar school and academy in the coastal town of Poole in Dorset, in the south of England. The school is twinned with Parkstone Grammar School. It is a member of t ...

. He married Muriel Sybil Bath. He worked in the

Civil Service The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

for

Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Webb, Godfrey 1914 births 2003 deaths British writers People educated at Poole Grammar School 20th-century British civil servants