George Godley (31 October 1857-20 July 1941) was a British Metropolitan Police Service officer who was involved in the hunt for Jack the Ripper in 1888.
Biography[]
George Godley was born in East Grinstead, Sussex in 1857, and he worked as a sawyer before joining the London Metropolitan Police Service in 1877. He was a sergeant at the time of the Whitechapel murders in 1888, and he helped Inspector Frederick Abberline hunt down Jack the Ripper. In 1902, when Godley arrested Seweryn Klosowski, Abberline was said to have congratulated Godley on capturing Jack the Ripper. He retired from the police in 1908 and died in 1941.