Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)