Geoffrey Bozman

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Geoffrey Stephen Bozman

| nickname =

| birth_date = 26 November 1896

| birth_place = Wandsworth, Surrey, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|2|23|1896|11|26|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bromley, Kent, England

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| batting = Unknown

| bowling = Unknown

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| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1925/26

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 24

| bat avg1 = 12.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 20

| deliveries1 = 24

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 29 November

| year = 2022

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/geoffrey-bozman-27062 ESPNcricinfo

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Geoffrey Stephen Bozman {{postnominal|CIE|CSI}} (26 November 1896 — 23 February 1973) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the Indian Civil Service.

The son of Samuel Bozman, he was born in November 1896 at Wandsworth. He was educated at Whitgift School, before matriculating to Brasenose College, Oxford.{{cite book |title=Who was who in British India |date=1998 |first=John F. |last=Riddick |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=42 |isbn=9780313292323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LI8UAQAAIAAJ |language=en}} Bozman served in the First World War, being commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) as a second lieutenant in October 1915,{{London Gazette|issue=29312|date=1 October 1915|page=9657}} before being transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a flying officer in August 1916.{{London Gazette|issue=29768|date=26 September 1916|page=9463|supp=y}} He was made a temporary lieutenant in March 1917,{{London Gazette|issue=30005|date=30 March 1917|page=3116}} before gaining the rank in full in July 1917.{{London Gazette|issue=30405|date=27 November 1917|page=12054|supp=y}} Following the war, he was transferred to the unemployed list in January 1919,{{London Gazette|issue=31861|date=13 April 1920|page=4347}} and resigned his commission in August of the same year, retaining the rank of lieutenant.{{London Gazette|issue=32027|date=20 August 1920|page=8694|supp=y}} Bozman joined the Indian Civil Service based in Madras in 1922, becoming an officer in the Department of Education, Health and Lands and eventually rose to the rank of secretary of the department.{{cite book |title=The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961 |first=Amit Das |last=Gupta |date=2020 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SUAEAAAQBAJ |language=en |isbn=9781000244588}} He was made a Companion to the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1938 Birthday Honours,{{London Gazette|issue=34518|date=7 June 1938|page=3691|supp=y}} and was later made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in the 1946 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=37407|date=28 December 1945|page=7}} While in British India, Bozman played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in the Madras Presidency Match of January 1926.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13034/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Geoffrey Bozman|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} Opening the batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 20 runs in the Europeans first innings by B. Bhaskar Rao, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 4 runs by C. R. Ganapathy.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11762.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1925/26|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=29 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} Bozman retired to England, where he died at Bromley in February 1973.