Charles Goodman Tebbutt

{{Short description|English speed skater and bandy player}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson|image=File:Charles_Goodman_Tebbutt_(0401-02823).png|sport={{hlist|speed skating|bandy}}|birth_date=1860|death_date=1944}}

File:Charles Goodman Tebbutt (0401-02824).png pose in 1889]]

Charles Goodman Tebbutt (1860–1944) was an English speed skater[https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/c45.0.200.200/p200x200/15822623_364482923929220_8501159367681980601_n.jpg?oh=5f5fd6e9c2c38295c14d5a9df29dff42&oe=594A1169 Photo of the speed skater Charles Goodman Tebbutt]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and bandy player[https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/c0.26.200.200/15940494_364477570596422_4383207509833347146_n.jpg?oh=c400bebe649fd5b39306695ce1607b82&oe=590E4A46 Photo of the bandy player Charles Goodman Tebbutt]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from Bluntisham, England, in the Fens of Cambridgeshire where Fen skating was a popular winter activity in the nineteenth century.

He also wrote articles and books about speed skating and bandy, including several chapters in the Badminton Library book Skating (1892) with John Moyer Heathcote.{{cite book|title=Skating|year=1892|last1=Heathcote|first1=J.M.|last2=Tebbutt|first2=C.G.|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|ol=7132924M}} He wrote a chapter on matches in Holland and Sweden in A Handbook of Bandy by Arnold Tebbutt.{{cite book|title= A Handbook of Bandy; or, Hockey on the Ice|year= 1896|author = Arnold Tebbutt|publisher= Horace Cox}}

He is said to have been the first player to establish the rules of bandy and popularize the sport in Northern Europe, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.