Lewis Godden

{{short description|British stamp dealer and philatelist}}

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Lewis Sidney Frank Godden MBE (1877 – 17 March 1954)[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011], Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.] was a British stamp dealer and philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1946.[http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter#G Who Was Who in British Philately], Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234319/http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Archived here.]

Godden was in business in The Strand, London, from 1912 and later joined by his son Frank Godden. The firm issued the monthly Godden's Gazette from 1933.

Lewis Godden organised philatelic section of British Empire Exhibition 1924.

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