Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
A. D. Godley

Born: 1856
Died: 1925 (aged 69)
Bio: Alfred Denis Godley was an English classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees.
Known for:
- The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments (1912)
- Lyra Frivola (1899)
- Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908)
- Socrates And Athenian Society In His Day (1896)